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Thanks for Radium suppositories! What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy and aliens visit us then?

by cvaidya1986 9y ago

stcredzero 8y ago
What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy If out descendants become intergalactic spacefarers, then we probably won't ever all leave. and aliens visit us then? Those aliens will probably be our descendants. They'll just have to look up the information in their archives. It's not like keeping raw information is going to become so expensive, we have to delete it.
- ModernMech 8y ago
  Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. Wars would break out over data resources, as factions war over access to storage and compute power. That assumes a future where humans colonize the stars and spread life through the universe. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. It seems to me the focus of most of our technology has been to figure out how to poke and prod our pleasure sensors to maximum effect. Forget the stars, we're going to invent our own personal paradises on Earth and just stay here.
  - maxerickson 8y ago
    At that point the war is for energy.
  - Coincoin 8y ago
    Or maybe present Earth is a single cell in Their giant cellular automaton machine.
  - stcredzero 8y ago
    Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel Perhaps by then, some very clever entity will have figured out a quantum computer implementation of The Library of Babel. It won't actually store all possible books, but it could be used to very quickly search the space by generating all remotely coherent possible books. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. Facebook.
  - C7H8N4O2 8y ago
    "Why spend a short life in the real world of sadness and absurdity when you could live forever in paradise?" https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183 https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183

Thanks for Radium suppositories! What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy and aliens visit us then?

What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy If out descendants become intergalactic spacefarers, then we probably won't ever all leave. and aliens visit us then? Those aliens will probably be our descendants. They'll just have to look up the information in their archives. It's not like keeping raw information is going to become so expensive, we have to delete it.

ModernMech 8y ago
Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. Wars would break out over data resources, as factions war over access to storage and compute power. That assumes a future where humans colonize the stars and spread life through the universe. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. It seems to me the focus of most of our technology has been to figure out how to poke and prod our pleasure sensors to maximum effect. Forget the stars, we're going to invent our own personal paradises on Earth and just stay here.
- maxerickson 8y ago
  At that point the war is for energy.
- Coincoin 8y ago
  Or maybe present Earth is a single cell in Their giant cellular automaton machine.
- stcredzero 8y ago
  Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel Perhaps by then, some very clever entity will have figured out a quantum computer implementation of The Library of Babel. It won't actually store all possible books, but it could be used to very quickly search the space by generating all remotely coherent possible books. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. Facebook.
- C7H8N4O2 8y ago
  "Why spend a short life in the real world of sadness and absurdity when you could live forever in paradise?" https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183 https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183