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Beamer
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They may have re-set the machine to unthaw him a few hours earlier. Nobody wants to spend the turn of the millenium probulating a guy from the 20th century. Hell, Leela seemed to be in a rush herself.
"Now, I'd like to decide your fate quickly & get out of here..."
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Ekarderif
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Well, I've always liked to discuss this but never had the chance until now. A year is approximately 365.2422 days. However, the Gregorian calendar, the standard every 4 years you add a day and skip 3 leap years every 400 years, only calculates the accuracy to 365.2425. Because of it, in a thousand years the difference would be about 3 days. Plus, the only device accurate enough to measure 1000 years correctly is the cesium clock, which I doubt the cryogenics team had. Coupled with Faris's idea, which is by in large accurate, and a little statistical analysis, the thawing process took place with 1.368954628 x 10^-4 % accuracy, I think it's safe to bet that the machines pretty much work as intended.
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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I'll just have to go with what Ranadok said. I think a small error in the unfreezing mechanism would have easily accounted for the slight time difference.
Either that or Wizards.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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The readout for the time setter may be digital but the dial that's used to set the time looks about as accurate as the one on my oven. And weren't Intel chips of the late '90's a bit wobbly converting binary to decimal?
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Writer unit32
Professor
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The Nibblonians set' the tube diffrently for Fry to get unfrozen before Leela went home for New Year.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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Perhaps, Nibbler was only guessing and it was a 1000 years ago. Interesting that the Nibbloians know exactly who Fry is, or will be, but "The Other" is vague. They seem to know what The Other will do and is close to Fry but not exactly who it is.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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Um, err, ah yes they do know it's Fry. It's in the Cryo lab scene in 1999.
Nibbler: Please. Our saviours foresee that in a thousand years, for one moment, the fate of the universe will depend on you. Since you will not live that long I must freeze you now.
Funny there hasn't been any speculation on who would want to save the Nibblonians or the Universe, perhaps more than once. Everyone seems to think the Nibblonians are running the show.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Decapodian: Tha sounds awee bit far-fetched, Writer Unti 32. Not really. I can just see a Leela-centric mythology episode showing a flashback of the Nibblonians screwing with the fate asignment of a young Leela so that she's sent to stand in unknowing vigil over the frozen Fry. It'd be similar to The Why of Fry, where Nibbler is shown making the call to the pizza joint and then pushing Fry into the tube. Simple yet effective manipulations of events.
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coldangel
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Which? The time of defrosting thing? That's easy:
He did not defrost early; if the capsule interpreted '1,000 years' to refer to the average length of a year in the Gregorian calendar, Fry should have defrosted a few seconds after noon. A year is not always a year.
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