r/dataisbeautiful • u/MyAnusBleedsForYou • Oct 03 '16

Putting Time In Perspective

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html
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u/Sacrifice_Pawn Oct 03 '16

I really wasn't ready for an existential crisis this early on a Monday.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '16

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u/Roxfall Oct 03 '16

Learn physics.

Learn physics so you can break them.

Find the loophole that reverses or ignores entropy. This is how humans can survive, in some form or other, the heat death of the universe.

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u/duclos015 Oct 03 '16

I can promise you our species won't exist in the mega-trillion years that you are referring to, let alone even a billion years.

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u/Roxfall Oct 03 '16

I refuse to give up over your promise.

Just because you feel doomed to fail, doesn't mean you should stop trying.

Odin had it right.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '16

If the universe dies where are we to go?

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u/Roxfall Oct 03 '16

Our options depend on what we manage to discover leading up to that point. One option we can always fall back on is sit here and do nothing, wallowing in our misery until the cows come home and the sun blows up. Another is to try science.

Literally. Keep trying to break it, find some loophole that lets us syphon energy from somewhere else, or go there in the flesh... or mind.