List one major event that occurred in your post count year

[Cheesicle]

42

0042- the year my teacher was born

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November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama wins the presidential elections and becomes the first African American to hold office

[Seb]

2017...?

[Cheesicle]

2021:
- Last nuclear power plant in Germany scheduled to shut down.
- Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
- CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
- Costa Rica has pledged to become a completely carbon-neutral nation by this date. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias.

[Foofoojack]

2021:
- Last nuclear power plant in Germany scheduled to shut down.
- Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
- CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
- Costa Rica has pledged to become a completely carbon-neutral nation by this date. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias.

What? How?

[Cheesicle]

2029:
-April 13 – The asteroid 99942 Apophis (previously better known by its provisional designation 2004 MN4) will pass within 30,000 km (18,600 mi) of the Earth, very briefly appearing as bright as 3rd magnitude. A possibility exists that Apophis could go through a 400 m wide "keyhole" on this pass which would put Apophis on a collision course with the Earth in 2036.
-December 20 – The December 2029 lunar eclipse, the second of two Metonic twin eclipses, will occur. The first of the twin eclipse pair was the December 2010 lunar eclipse, occurring on December 20–December 21, 2010. The twin eclipses are separated by 19 years.
-Raymond Kurzweil predicts machine intelligence will be capable of passing the Turing test by this year.
-The digital time capsule 'A Message From Earth' reaches its destination on the planet Gliese 581c.
-Intel predicts the performance of supercomputers to reach zettaflops scale.
-NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to leave the solar system.



Wikipedia.

[Alphaggot]

On the Gallic side, one of the leaders, Concolitanus, is captured in battle, while the leader of the Gaesatae, Aneroëstes, kills himself when the battle is lost.

[Myppl9]

300 Armenia first to adopt Christianity as state religion.

[Cheesicle]

2048:

January 14 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty will come up for review.
February 29 – There will be a rare full moon. This will be the first instance of a full moon on a leap day since 1972.
June - Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.

[cogsandspigots]

June - Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.

Shit. How big is it?

[Cheesicle]

Shit. How big is it?

It has a diameter of 130 meters

[cogsandspigots]

It has a diameter of 130 meters

I put the numbers into an impact effects program:


Total devestation in a 10 mile radius from both the air burst and ejecta.

[Cheesicle]

I put the numbers into an impact effects program:


Total devestation in a 10 mile radius from both the air burst and ejecta.

Not too bad, i guess?

[Don]

I put the numbers into an impact effects program:


Total devestation in a 10 mile radius from both the air burst and ejecta.

The problem isn't the impact, it's the dust/other shit that will float around due to it.
Barely any asteroid is big enough to just hit the earth and let everything disappear, it's more of a slow, brutal death due to a lack of oxygen or too much shit that we breathe in.

[cogsandspigots]

The problem isn't the impact, it's the dust/other shit that will float around due to it.
Barely any asteroid is big enough to just hit the earth and let everything disappear, it's more of a slow, brutal death due to a lack of oxygen or too much shit that we breathe in.

It's not so much the air quality that would kill us, but the lack of food due to lack of sunlight to plants. And besides, this asteroid is much smaller than the dino extinction one, AND that asteroid alone did not kill the dinosaurs, it was a combined effect of the asteroid and a severe increase in volcanic activity.

The thing I said before was just immediate effects.

[Mr. Franklin]

In 1972 - this happened:

Mr. Franklin was born on March 29th, weighing 8.23 pounds.

HBO launched in US as the first subscription cable service


Richard Nixon orders the start for the space shuttle program


Apollo 16 lands on the moon where the Lunar Rover is tested by astronauts John W Young and Charles M Duke


Apollo 17 lands on the moon and the last men to walk on the moon are Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan


Digital Watches are introduced


First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (price $395).


The Volkswagen Beetle becomes the most popular car ever sold with in excess of 15 million sold.