So How Long's It Been?

[Takhamavahu]

We're all glad to be back, but just how long has it been? Assuming everything interesting always happens at midnight, we've been wanting for BZPower forums for 170 days.that's5 months and 17 days.which is4080 hoursand also244800 minuteswhich is14688000 seconds Here are some events that have happened while we were twiddling our thumbs 14688000 times. The one that surprised me was the royal wedding. Has it really been that long? April 29 - The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton May 2 - Osama Bin Laden dies - US President Barrack Obama announces Bin Laden's death (it is still May 1 in Washington DC's timezone) May 3 - Jackie Cooper dies May 9 - Lidia Gueiler Tejada dies May 19 - Garret FitzGerald dies May 20 - Randy Savage dies May 27 - Jeff Conaway dies May 29 - Ferenc Mádl dies June 4 - Puyehue volcanoe erupts in Chile June 18 - Fredrick Chiluba dies - Clarence Clemons dies June 23 - Peter Falk dies July 2 - Itamar Franco dies July 7 - The first artificial organ transplant July 8 - Betty Ford dies July 9 - South Sudan secedes from Sudan July 17 - Juan María Bordaberry dies July 21 - NASA's Space Shuttle Program ends with the landing of Atlantis July 22 - 76 people die in a bombing in Oslo and a shooting on Utøya July 23 - Nguyen Cao Ky dies - Amy Winehouse dies July 25 - Michael Cacoyannis dies July 30 - Mario Echandi Jiménez dies August 3 - Bubba Smith dies August 5 - NASA announces that the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter captured evidence of liquid water on MarsThe solar powered spacecraft, Juno, is launched, heading for Jupiter August 7 - Harri Holkeri dies August 14 - Shammi Kapoor dies August 16 - Andrej Bajuk dies August 19 - Raúl Ruiz dies August 22 - Jack Layton dies August 28 - Libyan rebels overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi September 5 - India and Bengladesh end their border demarcation dispute September 7 - A plane crash kills 43 people, including much of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL team and their staff September 10- MV Spice Islander I sinks off the coast of Zanzibar - Cliff Robertson dies September 11- Andy Whitfield dies September 19- George Cadle Price dies September 20- Burhanuddin Rabbani dies September 27- NASA's UARS sattelite crashes October 5 - Steve Jobs dies - Charles Napier dies October 6 - Diane Cilento dies October 7 - Ramiz Alia dies I'll try to think of some things to add that aren't deaths. There seem to be alot of those. What landmark events have happened where you're from that make the downtime seem like a long time or like a very short time? What do you think is significant that I haven't listed?

Edited October 14, 2011 by Takhamavahu

[Makuta_of_Oz]

Well, I made my first three public websites, one of which was for a local business, if that counts as a milestone. BTW, I THINK this is a dupe.

[Enzee]

There were about four events on there that rang a bell to me. I don't know if that's good, or really bad.

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But I suppose what is really important is the personal events happened to each of us.

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As for me, I got some pretty important things to add to my resume.

[Toa Doublebee]

man...Alot of deathes...Im only happy about one of those deaths.It must have bin really harm making this list good job.

[Raaki]

That is a very long list of deaths...oh man. I've been developing a major obsession with aviation and photography over the months. Quite nice really.

[Protodite Karzahni]

I'm sure a few other people besides those you mentioned died. They just weren't special enough to appear on the news. I've now been promoted from Schoolboy to Student, which is one heck of a shift, as it turns out. Oh, and I became a brony, which seems to be the obsession that replaced Bionicle.

Edited October 14, 2011 by The Wretched Automaton

[Bambi]

I've had more time to bond with ponies..?

[Toa of Nerds]

The fact that 90% of those events is a sad comment on what the media is obsessed with these days. But as for me personally, nothing much other than turning 16, I guess. -don't touch my pocket protector

[Riglax]

A lot of stuff have happened. You don't even want me to begin counting them.

Edited October 14, 2011 by Riglax

[Aedai Rivin]

Hmm... Well, the PCC program that was at Bridgewater College for like thirty years moved to Stonehill College in Easton this summer, and I was in the first group!

[Neelh]

I turned 13! That happened on 20 June! Why is the news so depressing?

[~Allegretto~]

Early September, a freshman at my school committed suicide because of bullying in middle school and my school got blamed even though he was here for less than 10 days. On the bright side, the second season of Friendship is Magic started on September 17th, and my birthday was on the 7th. Then the 1-year anniversary of Reach was on the 14th, 2-year of ODST on the 22nd, 4-year of H3 on the 25, and Gears 3 came out on like the 20th.

[Taipu1]

Wow didn't know it had been that long, must have taken a while to work all that out. In that time I took my GCSE exams, went on holiday with my friends, got my GCSE results. and in between all that I must have had a lot of free time... The number of MOCs I made and didn't get to post... http://www.bzpower.com/board/public/style_emoticons/default/confusedw.gif

[GSR]

I worked my first job, learned some stuff, made some friends. Life went on.

[PooZy]

It's been way too long. Seriously, I've been lurking months

[Sumiki]

I've had more time to bond with ponies..?

Sounds like my life. Also, yeah. A lot of stuff happened to me. Too off-topic for this forum, but yeah. Been busy!

[Rarity]

Dang... That's alot of deaths. Inappropriate comments removed. -B6

Edited October 14, 2011 by Black Six

[Than the Moa]

Since we already have a topic to discuss what you did while the forums were offline and because there isn't a whole lot to discuss about a list of random events that happened while the board offline, this topic doesn't serve much of a purpose. With that said... Topic closed.