Re: Did anyone else notice?

Allanah Myles (dossy@panoptic.com)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:54:09 -0400

> > The thought that we'll survive another 8k years is more than optimistic,
> > in my book. And more likely than not we'll probably end up re-numbering
> > our years within the next millenium, like going from BCE to AD, we'll
> > probably go from AD to AA (after armageddon?) or somesuch nonsense.
>
> But now, before armageddon, we must consider that we will be outlived by
> nuclear-powered linux boxes. And we want the aliens who discover them to
> be impressed that after 15000 years they are still running! :)

Wouldn't an uptime >10k years break _something_? Or it'd just wrap around,
and really demonstrate our short-sightedness? *grin*

-Dossy

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