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This is such a great read. It’s fun to think about on a humankind scale how hard it is to destroy (as in obliterate entirely) the earth, while at the same time
by sharkweek 6y ago
This is such a great read.
It’s fun to think about on a humankind scale how hard it is to destroy (as in obliterate entirely) the earth, while at the same time pretty trivial on a universal scale.
We’d have a pretty hard time blowing this entire rock up ourselves, but the universe sure wouldn’t.
Then again, maybe in 100ish years it becomes trivial for us too. I’d bet someone in the 1800s had a hard time imagining one bomb being able to wipe an entire city off the map.
- Ekaros 6y agoIt's fun to really think about these scales. Earth has been around quite a while since big bang. Actually a one-third is pretty amazing number when you start to think about that. That is age of Earth is about third of age of Universe... And then Universe will be around for a very very long time after the planet is unrecognisable. On other hand Earth is just tiny thing in solar system, which is tiny thing in galaxy which is small thing around general area which is tiny thing in great scale of things...
- vaduz 6y ago> On other hand Earth is just tiny thing in solar system, which is tiny thing in galaxy which is small thing around general area which is tiny thing in great scale of things... Don't go down that route - down that route lies the Total Perspective Vortex, and that is something you don't come back from.
- vagrantJin 6y agoYeah. Some roads you just don't go down.
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoSounds like tourist brochure for Detroit.
- 0_____0 6y agoThere's an anthology that Douglas Hofstadter put together that is chock full of stories like this. When I started reading this story I knew basically where it was going.... Give DH's thing a read, it's called "The Mind's I"
- megablast 6y agoThe universe has been trying for 5 billion years. No luck so far.