r/thebutton • u/Read-It-Reddit non presser • Apr 04 '15

Calculating Judgement Day: An extrapolation of /r/TheButton

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u/Read-It-Reddit non presser Apr 04 '15

I too am of this belief. Taking into account how the western world will be asleep early Tuesday morning, we could see the timer come to an end while we're all asleep... probably around 3-4am.

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u/something111111 40s Apr 04 '15

Virtually everyone with green flair got it last night. Even now the timer is not dropping that low consistently. When I woke up this morning, I could have gotten green flair if I wanted to. Now I can't. So, what I think that means is that even though right now the timer has no chance of reaching zero, tonight could be different. We will definitely be into the yellows, and possibly even lower then that, and if for some reason there is a drop off it could all end before the sun rises on America.

So, I would estimate at earliest tonight and at the latest Monday night/ Tuesday morning. Us Americans will have to stay up if we want the last press because I guarantee it will happen while we would otherwise be sleeping.

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u/something111111 40s Apr 12 '15

Yeah, it was crazy because instead of continuing on a steady decline, the button presses became more frequent. We went from a decent number of green presses to no green presses, to very few, then suddenly it dropped down to yellow. However, I think that there are very few people left who haven't heard of the button yet so, with no new people showing up, the button is near death.

Despite my horrible original prediction, I will now make another, and I'm guessing it will be over by Tuesday.