Lateral Thinking Puzzles

29. Hint: This Only Makes Sense If You Are American...

Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34 a.m.
What was it?

Submitted by tartle · Added 17 January 2013

Solution:

On May 6, 1978, at 12:34 a.m., the time and date can be expressed as 12:34 on 5/6/78, which corresponds to the sequential order of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. This unique alignment of time and date is considered extraordinary.


Comments (3)

Iutus Tulipa 23 January 2013

When written, the time and date are in sequential order. 12:34pm 5/6/78 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Chrisam 31 January 2013

someone unable to sleep checks the time and at that very hour had a epiphany moment have become aware of the order on the time and date. :oops:

oncemoreforluck 10 June 2015

maybe because of the order from the date and time the planets aligned and aliens riding laser shooting unicorns invaded planet earth, chasing hippies because they saw them as violent, since the hippies picked so many flowers. Then, a police squad in sparkly helicopters saw the aliens and started shooting bacon at them with special guns, and because of the aliens (from the sun) had special skin, bacon was acid to them, so the special alien chasing police force chased them back into space and the portal created by the planets aligning closed because the planets were not aligned any more.

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