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This gives me existential dread
by Old_Paris 5y ago
This gives me existential dread
- HKH2 5y agoWhy?
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- cyberbanjo 5y agoIf this does but life doesn't, you're doing well
- Old_Paris 5y agoYes, I'm doing well with life, kind of. I would attribute it to reading "Metaphysics: Concept and Problems" by Theodor W. Adorno
- rsj_hn 5y ago6% of galaxies ought to be enough for anybody. :)
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- gremlinsinc 5y agoso there's an estimated 200 billion galaxies...still leaves us 12 billion.... I mean how greedy are we?
- cm2012 5y agoThe last enemy to be defeated will be entropy
- post_from_work 5y agoAn interesting written SF series with similar themes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence
- davidhbolton 5y agoWatching this simulated fly through of 400,000 actual galaxies blows my mind. Space is frickin huge... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw&t=31s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw&t=31s
- klyrs 5y agoIf we phrase it "we're permanently beyond the reach of 94% of potentially malicious alien cultures," does that help?
- tehjoker 5y agoI wonder if this is one aspect of The Great Filter that keeps aliens from contacting each other. 6% is still a lot to work with but shaving off 19 out of 20 galaxies sure helps explain a lot.
- awb 5y agoJust to add to it: If you decided to travel to the furthest galaxies you could reach, at some point even they will move beyond the reach of Earth as space expands. To colonize them means to exile yourself from Earth permanently. Traveling through an infinitely expanding universe is like traveling into a permanent headwind in every direction.
- HKH2 5y agoIf you can handle being 'exiled' from the past permanently, what difference does it really make?
- gremlinsinc 5y agoWhat if we're in a simulation, and algorithmically there's a way or method that will drop you in any coordinate at any time in the universe's timeline so that you can indeed explore space, and return home for dinner? I mean it'd require a TARDIS to exist probably lol, but in a sim, why not? Of course if we're in a sim, then that's probably not part of our overall 'goal' for creation, and likely we're the only creatures created so exploration really won't satisfy us, other than total galactic conquest, but then what?
- brundolf 5y agoWeird question I just thought of: if space is always expanding, why aren't the objects around us, even their very atoms, getting slowly torn apart? Are the forces holding them together just constantly pulling them back together? Is it just a very small amount of expansion at a human scale? Does this affect very sensitive measurements of distance?
- c21h30o2 5y ago> Are the forces holding them together just constantly pulling them back together? Is it just a very small amount of expansion at a human scale? Both. Even our galaxy is held together by gravity that's stronger than the expansion of space on that scale.
- ruined 5y agowhy? it was never going to matter to you. any of us here will be outliers if we even make it to orbit
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- Old_Paris 5y agoMy point is, the physics also apply to a smaller scale. According to this image: https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/In-enough-Ti https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/In-enough-Ti... When you stand next to somebody and you look at this person, through the expansion of the universe and the amount of time the light needs to travel from the surface of that person, to your eyes; means that when you see this person in the original distance, you do not see that person at the actual distance. It's not possible to share a contemporary timeline with other persons, everything is a few nano seconds delayed, you are existing in everybody else's past. Of course practically this doesn't matter.