• I'm scared of my mortality.
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I couldn't care less, for me space and all those wonders doesn't matter. To me, what is really important is here, on earth, around me; friends, family and love. Those are the true wonders in life.
IMO caving is the closest thing you could probably experience similar to what you want while staying here on earth. Not that I've done either, just the pictures have a similar wondrous feel about them that you just don't get with surface level stuff. [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TrW6QyChVd0/TELKyj7Hk6I/AAAAAAAAAso/EdVjomoPQYo/s1600/crystal-cave-1191533-lw.jpg[/img]
Am I ruining it by saying OP's picture is actually false-colour?
[QUOTE=Pilk;24310564]Am I ruining it by saying OP's picture is actually false-colour?[/QUOTE] Yeah, most space pictures are, and people assume that that's what it really looks like. Plus those are viewed at like, 100000000x zoom and if you could get that close to it, it wouldn't look anything like that.
Prozac+
By the time i'm dieing we will have reversed ageing. I am immortal. If your pissed about your mortality quit sleeping you'll save 30 years.
[QUOTE=Magistrate;24308382]img[/QUOTE] Holy shit that's a sweet picture. Lack of forest in Arizona = :( [QUOTE=Melnek;24309734]The issue with that is people can't enjoy life, laws and governments prevent you from living life and doing the things you love.[/quote] Then move to a free country like Canada or the US. Hurr [QUOTE=Melnek;24309734]Some people have school,[/quote] You need an education to do anything [QUOTE=Melnek;24309734]some people have a family to take care of,[/quote] Bring then with you [QUOTE=Melnek;24309734]some people simply don't have enough money.[/quote] Get a job [QUOTE=Melnek;24309734]But you will never be able to do that. You will be confined to a routine of your work for the rest of your life on a daily basis. You dont have a choice, you need money to survive and no stranger will land a hand.[/quote] So you're saying that everyone in the world is shit poor and you're deciding what they're lives are like? You're fucking retarded. [QUOTE=The Winner;24307900]So, you want to be immortal, and thus watch your mortal family and friends die and have to live billions of years watching humanity be torn apart. What a genius idea.[/QUOTE] What if everyone is immortal? Then humanity won't be torn apart. Thread is stupid and full of emos.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;24302576]I was born too soon.[/QUOTE] Look on the quasi-positive side, this might be as good as it gets.
[QUOTE=Pilk;24310564]Am I ruining it by saying OP's picture is actually false-colour?[/QUOTE] It's still beautiful, right?
This blows my mind every time I see it: [img]http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i151/jamz_bucket/universe.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;24313933]Holy shit that's a sweet picture. Then move to a free country like Canada or the US. Hurr[B][1][/B] You need an education to do anything[B][2][/B] Get a job[B][3][/B] Thread is stupid and full of emos.[B][4][/B][/QUOTE] [1]: There ain't no such thing as a ''free country''. We're all slaves to the monetary system. [2]: Not necessarily. For example you don't need a fucking degree to climb a mountain or travel around the world. [3]: And then what, smartass? Get stuck in a loop? Great idea. As if that'll bring anyone closer to their dreams. Let's face it: we're all fucking enslaved by the system we're living in. Unless you're on of the elite, your dreams will never come even close to truth without major sacrifices. [4]: Stop threadshitting, you fucking insensitive, stupid cunt. Being sad doesn't make you an emo, and neither does engaging in sophisticated conversations, you brute. To OP: Don't worry buddy. Technology develops exponentially. We're coming very, very close to a point where the first singularity will happen. Mankind is about to go through a massive shift. If it all goes well, many of the world's problems will be eliminated through the development and deployment of self-improving friendly AI. Human governments will fall, and there will be great turmoil, but a new, eternal era of transhumanist liberty will come. Under the just, watchful eye of the great cybernetic minds, all will be well and we will have ourselves an Eudaimonia.
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;24313933]Holy shit that's a sweet picture. Lack of forest in Arizona = :( Then move to a free country like Canada or the US. Hurr You need an education to do anything Bring then with you Get a job So you're saying that everyone in the world is shit poor and you're deciding what they're lives are like? You're fucking retarded. What if everyone is immortal? Then humanity won't be torn apart. Thread is stupid and full of emos.[/QUOTE] Ahahah oh my god Can you even make a single, intelligent post?
Reading through this thread, all I can think of is how in two hundred years time or something, people who feel like this will be comforted with something like "don't worry, imagine if you'd been born two hundred years ago..." :tinfoil:
Thank you OP, i am depressed about this again. :(
Well, EvE Online is the next best thing. But jokes aside, buy a telescope, thats what i did, a nice addition and useful. Browsing the wonders of the universe at 2am in the morning, the closest we are going to get in our lifetimes.
[QUOTE=analrapist;24302611]You grow out of it. I know it sounds like an asshole thing to say, but you do. Everybody feels like that at a certain point where they totally freak out about their mortality and how big the universe is, and then they have to get a job and they're busy in the office from 9am-6pm and then they get married and have kids and just don't have time to think about that kind of stuff any more. It's kind of sad actually.[/QUOTE] There are always exceptions, no matter how frequent it may be. Not everyone ever grows out of it.
[QUOTE=Kade;24310536]IMO caving is the closest thing you could probably experience similar to what you want while staying here on earth. Not that I've done either, just the pictures have a similar wondrous feel about them that you just don't get with surface level stuff. [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TrW6QyChVd0/TELKyj7Hk6I/AAAAAAAAAso/EdVjomoPQYo/s1600/crystal-cave-1191533-lw.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] It took them 12 years to get permission to go into that cave [editline]09:47PM[/editline] If I had a choice of how to die, I would want to be spaghettified on the event horizon of a black hole. [editline]09:48PM[/editline] That would be really awesome. Seeing as time slows down by as much as half in very dense black holes, it would be pretty cool for the microsecond you were alive.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;24302811]Oh well, you can't stop it, no reason to fear it.[/QUOTE] We fear what we don't understand, cannot control and most importantly, those things that are inevitable but not predictable.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;24302957]You're never born too soon, life is a journey, make the best of it, be glad you were born when and where you were. You could be a 6 year old child worker in india 500 years ago.[/QUOTE] Exactly
[b]ATTENTION FACEPUNCHERS:[/b] If you're reading this, you have been born in the single greatest era in human history so far. Never before has any human lived in a time where they could say "It's been 5 decades since we went to the Moon." Never before could they play a video game that comes close to simulating real world physics, hundreds of miles of land, and allowing you to actively participate with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of human beings, watch something happening on the other side of the planet in real-time, and share their own stories with the rest of humanity. And to top it all off, we're closing in on space. The way medical technology is advancing, we could very well be about to even reach triple digit average lifspans. Don't be sad, OP, or anyone. You're living in history. No matter what happens in the future, people will look back at the 1900s and 2000s as the beginning of the Golden Age of Humanity.
Well, not many more people will get to see anything more anyway, since the world will end in 2012.
[QUOTE=Reborn9;24318400][4]: Stop threadshitting, you fucking insensitive, stupid cunt. Being sad doesn't make you an emo, and neither does engaging in sophisticated conversations, you brute.[/QUOTE] I'm threadshitting cause I have a different opinion than you. OK. Fair enough. How am I insensitive anyway? There's nothing to be sad about here. I see a huge, vast, area we call space. Big shit.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;24325398][b]ATTENTION FACEPUNCHERS:[/b] If you're reading this, you have been born in the single greatest era in human history so far. Never before has any human lived in a time where they could say "It's been 5 decades since we went to the Moon." Never before could they play a video game that comes close to simulating real world physics, hundreds of miles of land, and allowing you to actively participate with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of human beings, watch something happening on the other side of the planet in real-time, and share their own stories with the rest of humanity. And to top it all off, we're closing in on space. The way medical technology is advancing, we could very well be about to even reach triple digit average lifspans. Don't be sad, OP, or anyone. You're living in history. No matter what happens in the future, people will look back at the 1900s and 2000s as the beginning of the Golden Age of Humanity.[/QUOTE] Thank you, I was just about to post something similar. We're in the midst of a fucking Technological Revolution. You guys should feel honored to be part of the era that will make or break Humanity. While you might not get to see us Colonize planets or break the Lightspeed barrier, you get to see Humanity in a time where everything is changing. Besides, for all you guys know you will get see us Colonize other planets or break the Lightspeed barrier. Hell, we might even gain the technology to sustain human life indefinitely within the next 20-30 years. Moore's Law[i](basically saying that computer power will double every 18 months)[/i] is expected to continue to 2029, so who knows what grand medical technologies we'll discover as computers get stronger.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;24325398][b]ATTENTION FACEPUNCHERS:[/b] If you're reading this, you have been born in the single greatest era in human history so far. Never before has any human lived in a time where they could say "It's been 5 decades since we went to the Moon." Never before could they play a video game that comes close to simulating real world physics, hundreds of miles of land, and allowing you to actively participate with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of human beings, watch something happening on the other side of the planet in real-time, and share their own stories with the rest of humanity. And to top it all off, we're closing in on space. The way medical technology is advancing, we could very well be about to even reach triple digit average lifspans. Don't be sad, OP, or anyone. You're living in history. No matter what happens in the future, people will look back at the 1900s and 2000s as the beginning of the Golden Age of Humanity.[/QUOTE] Yet we're killing ourselves with our own technology and destroying our planet. I hope we all wake up soon.
[QUOTE=Asphyxia;24325888]Yet we're killing ourselves with our own technology and destroying our planet. I hope we all wake up soon.[/QUOTE] That's because we have dumbfucks running the world. We need someone intelligent for once :c
Yeah, true... but on the other hand, we have [b]DOUBLE RAINBOWS.[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA[/media]
[QUOTE=Gordy H.;24325866] or break the Lightspeed barrier.[/QUOTE] Won't happen without exotic matter and even then it wouldn't be real FTL
[QUOTE=Roskarnolkov;24302995]Take some anti-depressants.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Asphyxia;24325888]Yet we're killing ourselves with our own technology and destroying our planet. I hope we all wake up soon.[/QUOTE] Perhaps that will jostle the world's best minds into refining antimatter development, then we can zip out of our galaxy at .7c on a Valyrie shuttle.
All things have their time, that's a certain. But whether or not there is such a thing as an afterlife, that's not so certain. We have yet to discover if there truly is an "other side", to learn whether or not our bodies are animated by more than just electrical signals and chemical reactions. They said space was the final frontier, but there are other frontiers as well, most of which we have yet to truly venture into and catalogue. Also, here's a big question: once we find the answer to that "great question", on the subject of whether or not we are alone in the universe, what question will we have to answer next?
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