42 years and 3 days

[JustPeaches]

anyone know whats up with that?

[NixBoxDone]

Belated congratulations for your birthday?

[SpaceToast]

hes reffering to a anomaly, i dont know what happens in 42 years, guess well have to wait and se.

[NixBoxDone]

Ahhh, you mean the one with the clock? My guess was nothing - picked it anyways in case something fantastic happens. Next time I find it I'll destroy it to see what happens. ^^

[mcsproot]

I chose to let it be. Nothing happened and I'm pretty sure it's been more than long enough. As nix said, if I see it again I'll try cutting the wires.

[JustPeaches]

i got wrecked in the game i was playing when i got it, so need to start again and see if i find it.

[Syris]

Well it says that it will take another 879 million years before it gains one second, so that would take a looooooooooooong time for it to pass 42 years and 3 days.

[Botji]

Originally posted by Lavender:

Well it says that it will take another 879 million years before it gains one second, so that would take a looooooooooooong time for it to pass 42 years and 3 days.

I think thats referencing its accuracy, even a clock that is working as it should and never runs out of power will slowly get more and more inaccurate. Its called clock drift/time drift.

Shameless copy-pasta from wiki:
The precision of these oscillations allows atomic clocks to drift roughly only one second in a hundred million years; currently, the most accurate of which loses one second every 15 billion years.

I could be wrong though but thats what I thought it was about when I read the event.

[Starblind]

Originally posted by Lavender:

Well it says that it will take another 879 million years before it gains one second, so that would take a looooooooooooong time for it to pass 42 years and 3 days.

No, it says it's so accurate it would take 879 million years to be 1 second out, it's counting in normal time for the purposes of the 42 years and 3 days. Still, nothing happens.

[Aranador]

Sigh, internets are really not the place to try clever humour. Don't worry, I got the joke.

[Nolo Contendere]

Originally posted by Aranador:

Sigh, internets are really not the place to try clever humour. Don't worry, I got the joke.

Given the following:

1. We all know a lot of people in real life who can be described as "dumb mother ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"
   
2. You can observe a larger sample of people on the internet than you can irl

why try being clever when you know in all probability that people wont pick up on it? If you assume people are dumb as hell until you get to know them, you'll be a better communicator.

[Botji]

Originally posted by Aranador:

Sigh, internets are really not the place to try clever humour. Don't worry, I got the joke.

Mind sharing this secret joke no one else but you gets?

[Nolo Contendere]

Originally posted by Botji:

Originally posted by Aranador:

Sigh, internets are really not the place to try clever humour. Don't worry, I got the joke.

Mind sharing this secret joke no one else but you gets?

The intentional misunderstanding about the in game statement of the accuracy of the atomic clock.

[Unchangeling]

It's badly phrased - my interpretation is that the clock is supposed to go off just after the universe ends.

WHAT it does, exactly, isn't explained, but I think there's even money it's supposed to start a new Big Bang.

[Aranador]

The joke is, the game comments that the clock only gains a second every lots of years - and is referring to the accuracy of the clock, but you can deliberately read it to mean that the time the clock displays only advances by one second every lots of years, rather than every second. That the joke needs explaining at all is a good indication that the joke is likely to only find purchase amongst people with a suitably flexible (or more likely, insane) mind and as such might not be a very good joke. So I merely wanted to let the joker know that their effort was not entirely in vain. Just mostly in vain.

[Gibbles]

I've taken the let it be option twice with nothing to show for it, so it's probably bugged.