***Taps fingers
***Bangs head off keyboard
***Bites fingernails
***AHEM!?

Uh...

Right...

Post Six Million.

It's actually going to be a bit harder than I thought and will need to wait until I can run a couple queries that are likely going to be somewhat processor intensive. So I'll run them during a slow period.

Our 8 gigabyte database of posts is rather large, and some queries require a little extra planning and care so as to avoid issues that may slow down the server and cause minor data corruption.

Does that mean the person who guessed 13:32 GMT on the 9th won??

Congratulations to all on ATS - a marvellous achievement, to Rocketgirl for being it and to whoever the sublimely prophetic and emminently laudible actual winner was who may have been only 62 minutes off!

Go Rocketgirl!

And the grand prize is... a bunch of stars!

Total posts: 6,004,716
Total topics (threads): 439,402
Topics (threads) with replies: 309,361
Percentage of topics (threads) with replies: 70.4 %
Posts-to-Threads ratio for entire site: 14:1
New posts: Past 24 hours: 5,833
New posts: Past 7 days: 35,715
New posts: Past 30 days: 151,472
New posts: Past Year: 1,897,224
Topics (threads) with more than 50 replies: 19,117
Topics (threads) with more than 100 replies: 7,043
Topics (threads) with more than 250 replies: 1,554
Topics (threads) with more than 500 replies: 424
AboveTopSecret.com posts: 5,149,903 (85.8 % of total)
AboveTopSecret.com topics (threads): 374,504 (85.2 % of total)
AboveTopSecret.com post-to-thread ratio: 14:1
BelowTopSecret.com posts: 770,516 (12.8 % of total)
BelowTopSecret.com topics (threads): 61,015 (13.9 % of total)
BelowTopSecret.com post-to-thread ratio: 13:1
Topics (threads) that have been flagged: 707,560
Topics (threads) that have been tagged: 131,374

Where are the other 84000+ posts that are not ATS + BTS...

Earth, nothing but an Alien Ant Farm?



And when will you have the 6,666,666Th post?

Any bets?

There's a lot of typing to be done if ATS is going to reach 12,021,012 posts by 12/21/12

I don't talk as much but I can give it a start.

Congrats to Rocketgirl! Congrats to ATS!

(just an aside but the time on her linked post in the thread shows 12:11 pm-all posts are in GMT -5 on my computer, iow central time--haven't found the place to adjust that yet.)