• Timeline of the far future - BBC
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This whole image is, for the most part, utter bullshit and wild speculation based on today's relatively meager understanding of the universe. I put very little stock in it.
Cheers for posting the image as the website is censored in the uk
[img]http://i.imgur.com/TBFhIsx.png[/img] I didn't know this was a thing, to be honest. How will breeding occur then? Budding? :v:
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;43497652][img]http://i.imgur.com/TBFhIsx.png[/img] I didn't know this was a thing, to be honest. How will breeding occur then? Budding? :v:[/QUOTE] like said earlier, genetic engineering will be a thing by then, this whole graph is what if humans suddenly disappeared or did literally nothing but eat and reproduce.
I like seeing stuff like this but hate it at the same time as it reminds me that I won't witness any of it. If the 'Galatic' empire or whatever is possible, I wish I could be born then. Learning to fly would be the standard instead of cars like it is today.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;43492593]I remedy this by reading science fiction, there's a lot we can do to fight the big empty void with exotic technology let me tell you :v:[/QUOTE] Ultimately we become beings of pure energy to escape even the end of the Universe. [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] Also where is my multiplayer chess game played via radio signals?
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;43497652][img]http://i.imgur.com/TBFhIsx.png[/img] I didn't know this was a thing, to be honest. How will breeding occur then? Budding? :v:[/QUOTE] Asgard style Wait, shit
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;43496964]This whole image is, for the most part, utter bullshit and wild speculation based on today's relatively meager understanding of the universe. I put very little stock in it.[/QUOTE] Its just a bit of fun.
I let out a huge sigh of depression after seeing this. It's like knowing the universe doesn't care whether you specifically live or die exposes you to it, letting it just completely crush your feelings. I'm gonna spend a lot of today pondering because of this. Damn.
Reminds me of that old series with Sam Neill, it was both fascinating, poetic, saddening and disturbing: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77q1soRa48[/media]
It's things like this that makes me kinda depressed, like I would never get so see humans colonize the galaxy or at least our solar systems or interstellar spaceships. A large part of me wishes I was born in the future but I know I'll be saying the same thing even if i was. :(
[QUOTE=Zillamatic;43492063]I made a song a while ago called Future Prospects, on exactly this subject [media]http://soundcloud.com/mkeenan/future-prospects-1[/media][/QUOTE] Holy shit, that's amazing. Thank you for posting this.
[QUOTE=xianlee;43497702]I like seeing stuff like this but hate it at the same time as it reminds me that I won't witness any of it. If the 'Galatic' empire or whatever is possible, I wish I could be born then. Learning to fly would be the standard instead of cars like it is today.[/QUOTE] Honestly, I disagree. No matter how shitty it seems now, we're living in the [I]21st century[/I]. We are living in the future and soon we'll be the first of humanity's reach into the cosmos with interplanetary travel. (The Moon Program was our baby steps, and those were exciting) I can't imagine a more exciting time to live in.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/pBXUrXS.png[/img] Any else just stop here for a minute and thought, "Wow."
[QUOTE=dragon926;43498093]It's things like this that makes me kinda depressed, like I would never get so see humans colonize the galaxy or at least our solar systems or interstellar spaceships. A large part of me wishes I was born in the future but I know I'll be saying the same thing even if i was. :([/QUOTE] If anything, use this as an inspiration to live your life the best you can in adding toward that future for your own generations to live happily in it. You may not be able to travel in space, but if you work hard, your children and grandchildren may, along with their children and grandchildren.
Meh, if string theory is correct (thus allowing for the possibility of the multiverse) and wormholes turn out to be stable enough for us to pass through then it's possible we could just move to another universe once everything goes to shit. [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Coyoteze;43497652][img]http://i.imgur.com/TBFhIsx.png[/img] I didn't know this was a thing, to be honest. How will breeding occur then? Budding? :v:[/QUOTE] The Earth will be populated with strong independent black women who don't need no man
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43498551]Meh, if string theory is correct (thus allowing for the possibility of the multiverse) and wormholes turn out to be stable enough for us to pass through then it's possible we could just move to another universe once everything goes to shit.[/QUOTE] A+ example of somebody who knows nothing about physics.
[QUOTE=EvacX;43498630]A+ example of somebody who knows nothing about physics.[/QUOTE] Well nobody knows whether either of those are possible any way so it's not like either side can actually say with absolute certainty whether it is possible or not. The debate on this subject isn't settled by any means
Interesting that even if we colonize the entire galaxy and live as a prosperous species, the stars will die around us and it will all eventually end.
[QUOTE=riku2211;43491129]Wow, kind of reminds me how trivial we are. All this stuff happens over millions of billions of years, and humans will hardly be able to see any of it happen. What's millions of centuries to us is the blink of an eye for the universe. Kind of makes me hope, or wish, that after death, we can have some sort of back seat to watch all of this happen, and to watch how humanity reacts and stands the test of time. I wanna see how much of this humanity can manage to prevent or work-around. I wanna know if we'll manage to colonize far away planets and just watch all of this happen to our planet. Wow, imagine that. The day the Earth dies, streamed to huge, distant screens to a race that no longer has a planet.[/QUOTE] Just think about the fact that dinosaurs existed for 165 million years, while we existed for about 200,000 years. To give you a visual example: Imagine a single train car. This is how much we existed. Now imagine a train with 900 train cars. This is for how much dinosaurs existed. I wonder if they developed any major intelligence.
[QUOTE=supersoldier58;43496035]Even so, it's an eerie feeling, the earth (if not absorbed into the sun before that) will have been through so much, all the life that has ever walked the earth, including humans and every thing that have done, everything they will do, and all the darkness that follows. Even if the earth becomes inactive long before it finally plunges into the sun, the remaining shell of humanities birthplace has sentimental value (probably not to distant future humans though) and imagining it just disappearing like that, is like I said, eerie, and generally sad.[/QUOTE] We'll probably just turn it into a giant spacecraft and take it on a galactic roadtrip [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=a dumb bear;43496420]or torn apart by andromeda colliding with the milky way, or the local cluster merging[/QUOTE] Those wouldn't happen
[QUOTE=LSK;43490993]Wow, the one about how in 5,000,000 years it will be impossible to create men due to the death of the Y chromosome is fascinating. I never knew that could happen, we're destined to be extinct no matter what, we have our own biological self destruct switch.[/QUOTE] What if we started collecting and preserving sperm samples?
I'm surprised no-one has edited this to say "Half Life 3" released after the death of the Earth.
[QUOTE=scurr;43499673]I'm surprised no-one has edited this to say "Half Life 3" released after the death of the Earth.[/QUOTE] They did [QUOTE=Aphtonites;43492333]Oh goddamn it, and I was just working on this :v: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Rmuu9Qq.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Never really looked it up, but the fact that a possible aricebo reply won't reach us in a very long time makes me kinda sad.
IMO we have plenty of time to put ourselves into a simulation of the universe running on a supercomputer millions of times per second by then. Probably are in one already. I suppose it only needs one consciousness to even actually be there. Yours.
[QUOTE=Satane;43500197]I doubt it's possible to simulate the entire universe faster than it is. Maybe aliens of a much larger universe are simulating us tho.[/QUOTE] Simulations all the way up
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;43491048][img]http://puu.sh/6gthg.png[/img] :([/QUOTE] [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8rlRbZDBqH8/TgpZ-yK52kI/AAAAAAAAAKM/wOg3i3ZYZS0/s1600/doctor%2Bwho%2Ba%2Bday%2Bmatt%2Bholsman%2Bend%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bworld%2B1.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Carbon123;43500708][img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8rlRbZDBqH8/TgpZ-yK52kI/AAAAAAAAAKM/wOg3i3ZYZS0/s1600/doctor%2Bwho%2Ba%2Bday%2Bmatt%2Bholsman%2Bend%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bworld%2B1.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Actually that was a long long long long time before what that chart is talking about
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;43497652][img]http://i.imgur.com/TBFhIsx.png[/img] I didn't know this was a thing, to be honest. How will breeding occur then? Budding? :v:[/QUOTE] As stated earlier, I will be one of the last two Highlanders left. There can be only two maybe.
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