I was remided that a unique moment in time is occurring soon. Today, a little past 12:30pm, the calendar and time synchronize to produce an interesting set of numbers. At 12:34:56 o’clock on July 8th, 2009 it will be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. I’m sure everyone will feel a cold chill run up their back at that exact moment. I suppose I should run outside and shoot off some firecrackers, bang some pots or pans, or maybe if I’m in the car then I should honk the horn for a bit. This is something that only occurs every thousand years!
I’m the kind of person that goes for this kind of stuff though. Like in the car when the speedometer changes from 99,999 to 100,000…that’s a huge event for me. And then I got to thinking, this moment occurs again in every single time zone around the planet an hour apart…not just here in ours. So I guess it’s not really that special. Just another man-made event courtesy of our calendar and timing systems. The planet doesn’t really know what the time is. The calendar is just something someone made up to keep track of the number of times the earth has gone around the sun and number of times the earth has rotated on it’s axis. Time measures the speed at which the earth rotates.
Years from now I’m sure everyone will remember exactly where they were at that moment, when the clock ticks to this exact time, like President Kennedy’s assassination or the World Trade Center disaster. Then again probably not.
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