Astronomical Year Numbering Puns

So for example if I’m 20 years old, it’s equal to x miles of distance travelled through space, etc.

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I am partial to non-murder mysteries and mysteries involving art and artifacts or places. While I don't expect this will generate a blizzard of speculation and comments, I thought some of you might like this!

"One hundred fifteen years ago, an archeologist was sifting through objects found in the wreck of a 2,000-year-old vessel off the Greek island Antikythera. Among the wreck’s treasures — beautiful vases and pots, jewelry, a bronze statue of an ancient philosopher — was the most peculiar thing: a series of brass gears and dials mounted in a case the size of a mantel clock. Archeologists dubbed the instrument the Antikythera mechanism."--Vox

"After 2,000 years under the sea, three flat, misshapen pieces of bronze at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens are all shades of green, from emerald to forest. From a distance, they look like rocks with patches of mold. Get closer, though, and the sight is stunning. Crammed inside, obscured by corrosion, are traces of technology that appear utterly modern: gears with neat triangular teeth (just like the inside of a clock) and a ring divided into degrees (like the protractor you used in school). Nothing else like this has ever been discovered from antiquity. Nothing as sophisticated, or even close, appears again for more than a thousand years.

For decades after divers retrieved these scraps from the Antikythera wreck from 1900 to 1901, scholars were unable to make sense of them. X-ray imaging in the 1970s and 1990s revealed that the device must have replicated the motions of the heavens. Holding it in your hands, you could track the paths of the Sun, Moon and planets with impressive accuracy. One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer.” But the X-ray images were difficult to interpret, so mainstream historians ignored the artifact even as it was championed by fringe writers such as Erich von Däniken, who claimed it came from an alien spaceship. It wasn’t until 2006 that the Antikythera mechanism captured broader attention.

Just a quick thought as it always made no sense to me that cards are taken out of packs after promos are over.

Why not just number every speciality card like they do with real trading cards and keep them in non-promo packs until all are pulled. (/50, /250 etc.)

You can still keep the promo packs and increase the odds of pulling a promo player in those. But in packs like mega and premium leave it open to every player released in the past (excluding the current promo).

May also add some value to lower number cards, after all this game mode is base off real trading cards.

Maybe it’s just me sick of pulling base golds and adding them to sets, but just a thought.

Have wondered this for quite some time. Schools occasionally teach alternative calendar systems but I’m yet to encounter alternate popular year naming conventions throughout history, wondered if anyone could shed some light?

One morning, an inmate was sitting around with a group of guys and just says “26” and everyone starts laughing. A second inmate says “71” and everyone laughs even harder. A third inmate says “37” and no one reacts. He repeats “37” and still no one laughs. Quite frustrated, he says, “I don’t understand, 37 is a funny joke, why aren’t you laughing?” and another inmate replies “it is a funny joke, but your delivery sucks.”

I didn't really see the connection until I realized that the lowest product number for Ryzen is most likely going to remain as the R3 1200 since I can't imagine AMD releasing a new R3 processor at this point.

Today, I had to do a bit of double-take because I read "1090T", as in the Phenom II 1090T processor, and wondered if there were a lower Ryzen CPU released that I didn't know about. Then the memories started flooding back.

Although most people remember the last Phenom II processors from 1055T to 1090T, there was a very small batch release of the Phenom II X6 1100T, which was the highest number given to an AMD CPU before Bulldozer happened.

This is the AMD CPU timeline with Bulldozer's product numbers.

• 2009: Phenom II X6 1055T ~ 1090T

• 2010: Phenom II X6 1100T

• 2012: FX 4100/6100/8100 series

• 2013: FX 4200/6200/8200 series, + 9370

• 2014: FX 4300/6300/8300 series, + 9570

• 2015/2016: Nada

• 2017: Ryzen 1200 ~ 1800X

  • Threadripper 1900X ~ 1950X

The same list is much more satisfying with the Bulldozer excluded, I'm hoping that I'm not the only person who enjoys a neat and ordered product number progress like this:

• Phenom II X6 1035T
• Phenom II X6 1045T
• Phenom II X6 1055T
• Phenom II X6 1065T
• Phenom II X6 1075T
• Phenom II X6 1090T
• Phenom II X6 1100T
• Ryzen R3 1200
• Ryzen R3 1300X
• Ryzen R5 1400
• Ryzen R5 1500X
• Ryzen R5 1600
• Ryzen R5 1600X
• Ryzen R7 1700
• Ryzen R7 1700X
• Ryzen R7 1800X
• Ryzen Threadripper 1900X
• Ryzen Threadripper 1920X
• Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

All of this reminds me a bit of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacn_bCj8tQ

"Everyone in AMD was at vacation!"