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the thought of this frozen rock drifting through space for billions of years fills me with existential dread :(
by modzu 1y ago
the thought of this frozen rock drifting through space for billions of years fills me with existential dread :(
- mrexroad 1y agoQuite the opposite for me. I’m fascinated and inspired by the fact that this rock escaped the gravity well of one star and is now visiting another.
- stouset 1y agoWait until you hear what Earth has been up to in that same time.
- komali2 1y ago80 years (if lucky) is an unfathomably cruel prank and a prison.
- bluerooibos 1y agoI'm quite hopeful that anyone under 40 (arbitrary, mostly because I'm in my mid-30s) will get to LEV (longevity escape velocity) - there's a ton of anti-ageing and disease-curing research going on, especially now with the likes of DeepMind and others accelerating said research. That's assuming you manage to avoid death from microplastics, climate change or AI-related societal collapse, etc.
- komali2 1y agoIn your perspective, why would these drugs be made available to the general public given they'd be arguably the most valuable thing every produced in human history? Presumably one or a few companies would own the IP, so they would of course charge massive sums for them because that's what corporations are supposed to do. So how does that not happen?
- jmorenoamor 1y agoAstronomy usually has that kind of "Lovecraftian" sense of cosmic insignificance when you put things to sacale. Also, being alone at 3am in the middle of nowhere, cold and kind of sleepy, looking at a gas cloud lightyears away, adds to it. But it is also fascinating.
- exe34 1y agohonestly the times I was on a proper telescope, I was shitting myself making sure I made the most of the time going down my list of targets and not getting something wrong and pointing at the wrong star or getting the wrong setting. that and the daemon that had to be restarted every half an hour or so because it crashed. I did not have the energy or time for philosophy. I guess that's the difference between the phd student and the professor haha!
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoNow think about how "lucky" this one is it got to float through a solar system.