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[themurderbird]

I am VERY excited to announce that I've made my very first Arithmancy prediction! There is an approximate 80% that the world will end in 2019.

Don't think that excuses you from our competition this month, marching band! We're still going to practice like all our lives depend on it. Who knows, maybe they do!

Comments

[merlinpletcher]

Why should it? And besides, if something that big was happening it would've been picked up on by other diviners or seers or something. You probably put a decimal in the wrong place or someth

[themurderbird]

Everything ends.

So it's impossible that I could be the first to discover something?

[merlinpletcher]

Not without a reason.

Unlikely, given your level of experience.

[themurderbird]

Tell that to Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, William Hershel, Thomas Bopp, Joseph Priestley, Arthur C. Clarke, Grote Reber, Felix d'Herelle, Susan Hendrickson, and countless other amateurs who made invaluable scientific discoveries despite their levels of experience.

[merlinpletcher]

I bet they all had more experience in their fields than you do.

[themurderbird]

Veritably incorrect.

[merlinpletcher]

You've been doing this for like a year.

[themurderbird]

Thomas Bopp was a construction worker with a borrowed telescope who had never observed a comet before co-discovering Hale-Bopp.

[merlinpletcher]

Which takes basically zero skill. That's luck. Doesn't apply here.

[themurderbird]

Still an important scientific discovery. Also, how do you know how much skill it did or did not take him?

[merlinpletcher]

You're getting distracted from the point. Check you math or something.

[themurderbird]

And why am I expected to take commands from you?

[merlinpletcher]

It's not a command. Do whatever you want. I'm just saying your prediction's wrong as-is.

[themurderbird]

Well I am so very grateful to be receiving your expert opinion on the matter.

[merlinpletcher]

I didn't say [...] I'm not an expert. But you're not either. And it's a big claim. That's all I'm saying.

[themurderbird]

You're free to ignore it. It's not like I waltzed into your dorm and started forcing you to stockpile canned goods.

[merlinpletcher]

I intend to.

[themurderbird]

Thank you for informing me.