3 ms·

It's not like entropy will halt in that time. Worrying about efficiency of each individual calculation is a little ridiculous when you are wasting billions of y

by enkid 8y ago

It's not like entropy will halt in that time. Worrying about efficiency of each individual calculation is a little ridiculous when you are wasting billions of years for the ambient temperature to drop.

OscarCunningham 8y ago
Even in a trillion years, a star won't burn up so much of its energy that less than 10^-30 of it remains. So the wait is worth it.
- novalis78 8y ago
  I'd argue the opposite: it only takes one non-hibernating species out to dominate and it will hunt down every sleeping civilizations data center and annihilate them - so that they remain the most dominant species. Such a "hibernation data center" must thus be the most well guarded / hidden place in the galaxy...
  - OscarCunningham 8y ago
    This is certainly a possibility. It's also possible that one civilisation will attain dominance and then aestivate. It's also possible that there are no other civilisations within range of us (if there are other aggressive civilisations nearby why haven't they have wiped us out already?).
  - newsbinator 8y ago
    It's possible that there's a physical principle by which you can aestivate without being accessibly annihilable. Some principle like "the only way to annihilate something in aestivating space is to annihilate the entire universe it's aestivating in." Guess we won't know for a while.
  - mLuby 8y ago
    Imagine if humans decided to hibernate en masse on Earth (maybe because of an ice age or fallout or something). We'd almost certainly set up alarms so if one hibernation center were damaged or destroyed another one nearby would thaw out some people (or machines) to go investigate. If the damn dirty apes really had become an existential threat to our sleepers, I'm sure we'd wake everyone up to reassert our planetary dominance before returning to a secure slumber. Same thing would make sense on larger scales.
  - deleted 8y ago
    [deleted]

by enkid 8y ago

OscarCunningham 8y ago

Even in a trillion years, a star won't burn up so much of its energy that less than 10^-30 of it remains. So the wait is worth it.

novalis78 8y ago
I'd argue the opposite: it only takes one non-hibernating species out to dominate and it will hunt down every sleeping civilizations data center and annihilate them - so that they remain the most dominant species. Such a "hibernation data center" must thus be the most well guarded / hidden place in the galaxy...
- OscarCunningham 8y ago
  This is certainly a possibility. It's also possible that one civilisation will attain dominance and then aestivate. It's also possible that there are no other civilisations within range of us (if there are other aggressive civilisations nearby why haven't they have wiped us out already?).
- newsbinator 8y ago
  It's possible that there's a physical principle by which you can aestivate without being accessibly annihilable. Some principle like "the only way to annihilate something in aestivating space is to annihilate the entire universe it's aestivating in." Guess we won't know for a while.
- mLuby 8y ago
  Imagine if humans decided to hibernate en masse on Earth (maybe because of an ice age or fallout or something). We'd almost certainly set up alarms so if one hibernation center were damaged or destroyed another one nearby would thaw out some people (or machines) to go investigate. If the damn dirty apes really had become an existential threat to our sleepers, I'm sure we'd wake everyone up to reassert our planetary dominance before returning to a secure slumber. Same thing would make sense on larger scales.
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]