October 1,

Historically

• Fritz Koberle, Austrian physician
• Jose Enrique Moyal, Austrailian mathematical physicist
  Bonnie Parker, American outlaw

October 1,

Projected Events

Census will be held in Russia and Japan.

The following events are scheduled to take place sometime during the year 2010:

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  Microsoft Surface computers are expected to be available as retail products for consumers.
  NRI university will be set up by Manipal university in Bangalore, the first University where the children of NRIs and PIOs would have 50 per cent reservation.
  1300 year anniversary of transfer capital to Heijo-kyo, with anniversary festival at Nara, Japan.
  A general election will be held in Australia.
  Austria, Germany, Malta and Spain will cease analog television broadcasts.
  General Motors will produce a commercially viable model of its hydrogen-fueled drive-by-wire concept car, the Hy-wire.[7]
  Israel will complete its Security Barrier and will use it as the basis for the definitive border between Israel and a Palestinian state, according to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as reported March 10, 2006 by the Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers and other news media. All Israeli settlements not protected by the barrier will have been evacuated.
  Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey, is going to be the European Capital of Culture.
  JAXA PLANET-C orbiter to Venus.
  Launch of the KEO satellite time capsule, if it was not launched in 2009.
  MS Queen Elizabeth, a ship ordered by Cunard Line October 2007 will be finished. She will act as sister ship to MS Queen Victoria.
  President Barack Obama of the United States will give his first State of the Union Address
  Proposed launch of the General Motors Chevrolet Volt electric car.
  The International Space Station will be completed.
  The Space Shuttle program will be retired by NASA and replaced by Project Constellation. This project will include new space vehicles called Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles, as well as the Orion capable of traveling to the Space Station, to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. (Sources: National Geographic, October 2007; Scientific American, October 2007).
  The UK's analog TV Signal will be switched off in this year in favor of digital TV with HTV West and STV being the areas to switchover.

The Binary Connection

• I've gotten alot of questions about how ten one ten might tie into binary - you know, the 1's and 0's zipping around in our computers that basically make everything in there work. Well, i put together an introductory paper on how binary may be related to the ten one ten phenomenon. Check it out HERE
• If you feel particularly engaged in the idea that ten one ten is somehow related to binary, check out this binary translator i found. It allows you to enter text and have it translated to 1's and 0's, or vice versa. See if you can find any other connections...

Zip Code

• The zip code for New York City (one of them, anyway) is 10110. Could New York City be ground zero for ten one ten?

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  "A simple virus, such as Swine Flu, will evolve in a patient dying in a hospital somewhere in Mexico. After a short period of the patient showing no vital signs, the patient will arise with a thirst for blood. The first to be attacked would be the doctors surrounding the patient, in very short time the virus will spread exponentially and the Zombie Apocolypse will be upon us."
• - Brendan
• I wouldn't say that it is unreasonable for such a scenario to unfold. The reason that the United States has been able to avoid a catastrophic pandemic thus far is mainly due to our high standards of living in terms of our access to hygiene and decent healthcare, ever for the poor. Look at the nations of Africa, which are being decimated by AIDS, malaria, and other illnesses that are, for the most part, under control in the US. However, our high standard of living may also leave us susceptible to new diseases because our immune systems are not as well equipped to fend off viruses. Some sort of new, hybrid virus could easily spread throughout the civilized world before anyone had a chance to identify it, let alone stop it. While it probably won't be the Mexican swine flu, it may very well be some variant of a common virus like the flu. I doubt, however, that we would even have the chance to read about in the paper and get all whipped up into a panic before it begins wiping us out...