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Boogie
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Originally posted by Rossweisse:
I do miss the "Current chance of rapture: %" numbers on the homepage. I hope Simon will bring that back in the new dispensation.
I’d like to know how the calculation is made ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Alan Cresswell
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It was a feed from a different website, which AFAIK no longer exists. Hence it's absence here.
The first person to suggest that the "chances of Rapture" site was Raptured gets a :groan:
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Boogie
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Who knows, who knows?
I think we should have a new poll on the New Ship date ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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passer
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Who knows, who knows?
I think we should have a new poll on the New Ship date
It's scheduled for the day after the Rapture.
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Rossweisse
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Thanks, Alan. (Couldn't we just make something up to keep the feature?)
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Alan Cresswell
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You're assuming the other site wasn't just making something up in the first place.
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Jengie jon
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I think it would be relatively easy to create one. First pick up some random numbers that are easy to feed into a web app, then program them into a calculating process that turns out values between 0 and 1. Make sure that most of the time it gives a low score (i.e. less 1%) and about twice a year gives a scores somewhere in the region of 10% (statisticians know of probability distributions that can behave like this).
Voila a rapture calculator.
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Rossweisse
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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
You're assuming the other site wasn't just making something up in the first place.
Actually, that thought had occurred.
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Erroneous Monk
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
I think it would be relatively easy to create one. First pick up some random numbers that are easy to feed into a web app, then program them into a calculating process that turns out values between 0 and 1. Make sure that most of the time it gives a low score (i.e. less 1%) and about twice a year gives a scores somewhere in the region of 10% (statisticians know of probability distributions that can behave like this).
Voila a rapture calculator.
I'd favour something more [*cough*] scientific. We could collect from scripture all the things that are supposed to be features of impending end times, then for each of these have an external data source that feeds into our overall likelihood calculator.
It'd still be wrong, but it'd be more precisely wrong.
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