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[Pnx]

From what I understand we've still got well over a billion years before the calendar runs out of numerals. But even then all that would happen is we just wouldn't know what to call the next numeral.

I find it funny that they made a calendar capable of counting over a billion years into the future. They certainly seemed to expect their civilization to last a long time.

Still, 3000 years is a decent run for an ancient civilization, most struggled to last more than two.

[Phantom of The Library]

I find it funny that they made a calendar capable of counting over a billion years into the future. They certainly seemed to expect their civilization to last a long time.

If memory serves it was actually part of their religion that the world would be renewed every so many thousands of years remaking everything, and had already happened multiple times.

[mainiac]

Also maniac, you can't just call dibs on becoming a death god.

My plan was to just kill off the competition.

[lemon10]

From what I understand we've still got well over a billion years before the calendar runs out of numerals. But even then all that would happen is we just wouldn't know what to call the next numeral.

I find it funny that they made a calendar capable of counting over a billion years into the future. They certainly seemed to expect their civilization to last a long time.

Still, 3000 years is a decent run for an ancient civilization, most struggled to last more than two.

I suppose its interesting, but it isn't really indicative of how long they expected their civilization to last, similarly the modern calendar can go for a googleplex more years (and thats not even bothering with stuff like ten googleplex) till we run out of things to call the years, and I don't think that anyone expects modern civilization to outlast the heat-death of trillions of universes set end on end.

[RedKing]

From what I understand we've still got well over a billion years before the calendar runs out of numerals. But even then all that would happen is we just wouldn't know what to call the next numeral.

I find it funny that they made a calendar capable of counting over a billion years into the future. They certainly seemed to expect their civilization to last a long time.

Still, 3000 years is a decent run for an ancient civilization, most struggled to last more than two.

I suppose its interesting, but it isn't really indicative of how long they expected their civilization to last, similarly the modern calendar can go for a googleplex more years (and thats not even bothering with stuff like ten googleplex) till we run out of things to call the years, and I don't think that anyone expects modern civilization to outlast the heat-death of trillions of universes set end on end.

Except for Twinkies and SPAM, which probably will be around at the heat-death of the universe.

[kaijyuu]

So you're saying in a few trillion years, mankind will not only have made some things truly impervious to the passage of time, but they will be Twinkies and Spam?


What a legacy to leave.

[Flying Dice]

Someday alien archaeologists will be mystified by our legacy of edible non-food products.

[RedKing]

"The Ancients' burial practice appears to have involved rendering their flesh into a non-degrading slurry and sealing it within cans. Also, it appears that they all took the posthumous name Pam, as the label of the can clearly indicate its contents: S'Pam."

[MaximumZero]

Either that, or they'll think we somehow managed to turn junk email into a pseudo-meat product.

[Loud Whispers]

So to survive the heat death of the universe, mankind must evolve into spam?

[penguinofhonor]

I don't think I'm willing to pay that price.

[ChairmanPoo]

You might want to say "tylenol_ for the benefit of our American audience

[uber pye]

maybe the world keeps on going because people keep on making end of the world prophecies

[Loud Whispers]

maybe the world keeps on going because people keep on making end of the world prophecies

:O

QUICK! EVERYONE MAKE YOUR PROPHECIES!

[MaximumZero]

I'm gonna need a really, really big roulette wheel.