[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43500745]Actually that was a long long long long time before what that chart is talking about[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I know :v: it just reminded me of that
[QUOTE=Deweze;43498393][img]http://i.imgur.com/pBXUrXS.png[/img]
Any else just stop here for a minute and thought, "Wow."[/QUOTE]according to The World Without Us (brilliant book, i recommend) Mount Rushmore will outlast every manmade structure on earth
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43502210]according to The World Without Us (brilliant book, i recommend) Mount Rushmore will outlast every manmade structure on earth[/QUOTE]
We need to make more massive stone structures as a big obvious "HEY, HEY! LOOK OVER HERE, WE WERE A CIVILIZATION LIKE YOU ONCE, DON'T FUCK UP LIKE WE DID" to any alien civilizations that might find earth after we're gone :v:
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43502210]according to The World Without Us (brilliant book, i recommend) Mount Rushmore will outlast every manmade structure on earth[/QUOTE]
dude wait
when we die off and aliens come check our shit out Mount Rushmore will be like R'lyeh
this is good
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;43497784]Ultimately we become beings of pure energy to escape even the end of the Universe.[/QUOTE]
We won't be allowed to meddle so what will even be the point
[QUOTE=Zeke129;43503110]We won't be allowed to meddle so what will even be the point[/QUOTE]
We could do like Mormonism where everyone gets their own planet.
The manmade structures that will last the longest would be the Apollo landing site and anything we left there.
To think... If we die out our legacy would be limited to a lunar rover, some footprints, and a flag.
Our longest lasting achievement will be our biggest one.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;43503185]The manmade structures that will last the longest would be the Apollo landing site and anything we left there.
To think... If we die out our legacy would be limited to a lunar rover, some footprints, and a flag.
Our longest lasting achievement will be our biggest one.[/QUOTE]
Still wouldn't be as big as my
penis
Haha!
[QUOTE=Deweze;43498393][img]http://i.imgur.com/pBXUrXS.png[/img]
Any else just stop here for a minute and thought, "Wow."[/QUOTE]
The ancient cities did an amazing job, but I didn't think it was that good.
as our fatalism becomes steadily more and more justified the only thing i can think of is how eerie our legacy will look to any creatures who investigate it. just think about this: a grotesque alien that nobody will know was once named George Washington is going to be staring off into space for the next million years, and no one will know why.
[QUOTE=Cone;43503648]as our fatalism becomes steadily more and more justified the only thing i can think of is how eerie our legacy will look to any creatures who investigate it. just think about this: a grotesque alien that nobody will know was once named George Washington is going to be staring off into space for the next million years, and no one will know why.[/QUOTE]
They'll find his head and the pyramids, assume he was the emperor of the world and forced us all to build pyramids and carve his face into a mountain in his honour
[QUOTE=Kyle902;43503185]The manmade structures that will last the longest would be the Apollo landing site and anything we left there.
To think... If we die out our legacy would be limited to a lunar rover, some footprints, and a flag.
Our longest lasting achievement will be our biggest one.[/QUOTE]
Except the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, so we might be unlucky and have a big piece of rock fuck all that up.
In 10^1500 years all remaining atoms will be iron 52 because it is the most stable of all atoms if they aren't gobbled by black holes or decay or something.
[editline]12th January 2014[/editline]
And in 10^10^10^10^10... years there is almost guaranteed chance your brain will pop into existence at random.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;43504494]Except the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, so we might be unlucky and have a big piece of rock fuck all that up.[/QUOTE]
At least the Voyager probes have a good chance of survival. Once they get past the Oort Cloud, the odds of random space debris hitting them is insanely small.
When i was looking down the timeline, this song automatically started playing in my head.
[video=youtube;vJ92Y2Hsc2w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ92Y2Hsc2w[/video]
P.S - the late philip j. fry episode of Futurama, one of my favorite episodes.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43504708]At least the Voyager probes have a good chance of survival. Once they get past the Oort Cloud, the odds of random space debris hitting them is insanely small.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't mean Voyager is going to survive that long. It's also past the Oort Cloud already considering NASA announced it was in interstellar space already.
[QUOTE=Cone;43503648]as our fatalism becomes steadily more and more justified the only thing i can think of is how eerie our legacy will look to any creatures who investigate it. just think about this: a grotesque alien that nobody will know was once named George Washington is going to be staring off into space for the next million years, and no one will know why.[/QUOTE]
HAH! Fatalism is for the weak!
I know I am guaranteed to witness the heat death of the universe thanks to all the preservatives I've had in my diet. And since preservatives preserve things, my body will become immortal!
[QUOTE=Cockslap;43504625]
And in 10^10^10^10^10... years there is almost guaranteed chance your brain will pop into existence at random.[/QUOTE]
How does this happen exactly?
Also I don't trust this timeline. It seems to completely ignore the founding of the magnificent Imperium of Man.
Filthy heretics.
It stopped too soon, you think Earth dying is tragic? How about the absolute death of the universe where all energy has faded and all matter has dissolved. In the end, everything is gone and nothing has any lasting meaning :D
[editline]12th January 2014[/editline]
Enjoy your quarter-life crisis everyone
I was listening to the Deus Ex:human revolution soundtrack while reading everything on that image, it made the whole thing real fucking intense.
[QUOTE=Bridger;43507771]I was listening to the Deus Ex:human revolution soundtrack while reading everything on that image, it made the whole thing real fucking intense.[/QUOTE]
Listening to music from the original and reading modern news articles can be fun, it's amazing how much that game got right about the future.
I'm hoping Earth becomes something like the one in 40K, where its so advanced that most space stuff doesn't damage the Earth. Like Asteroids or supernovas.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43502210]according to The World Without Us (brilliant book, i recommend) Mount Rushmore will outlast every manmade structure on earth[/QUOTE]
Don't worry there'll be loads of other things to show that something odd happened at this time.
If aliens came here many millions of years into the future they would notice a lot of strange things when digging down.
For instance, many areas would have traces of plastics lying around, they would notice that the fossils of a certain branch of hominids would have suddenly appeared around the entire world almost at once. They would notice that rats, mice, cats, dogs, pigeons, a lot of plants, etc would have also made the journey (migrating overseas somehow).
They'd probably also notice areas where gold has been superconcentrated into small spaces, small but numerous deposits of various metals (such as copper and iron) in geologically weird places, they would find loads of probably former mines and any other underground structures that could have survived that long. Certainly they would also notice a lot of other odd things when examining certain plants or animals under the microscope as well. Not to mention the remains of the Panama canal and former massive lakes where they would struggle to explain what caused a lot of water to be stored in one place and then suddenly escape.
There would probably quite a lot of things aliens would notice that at the very least would tell them, something very odd happened here in a geologically microscopic period of time.
[QUOTE=Foogooman;43507696]It stopped too soon, you think Earth dying is tragic? How about the absolute death of the universe where all energy has faded and all matter has dissolved. In the end, everything is gone and nothing has any lasting meaning :D
[editline]12th January 2014[/editline]
Enjoy your quarter-life crisis everyone[/QUOTE]
I for one can't wait for the vacuum collapse!
I want to live to see it all. :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Cockslap;43504625]
And in 10^10^10^10^10... years there is almost guaranteed chance your brain will pop into existence at random.[/QUOTE]
I've never understood the boltzmann brain thing... if that were to happen shouldn't a countless amount of other matter/energy configurations (objects) poof into existance before a brain does?
I mean logically a giant purple dildo or a copy of half life 3 should suddenly appear in the void before that even happens
[QUOTE=RobbL;43510649]I've never understood the boltzmann brain thing... if that were to happen shouldn't a countless amount of other matter/energy configurations (objects) poof into existance before a brain does?
I mean logically a giant purple dildo or a copy of half life 3 should suddenly appear in the void before that even happens[/QUOTE]
The chance of anything being completely reformed at random is well.. random.
So on the bright side there is a minute possibility that the Earth will pop up again at the end of the universe due to a series of highly improbable and wholly coincidental events.
[QUOTE=matty928;43492226]Sorry,couldn't help it[/QUOTE]
knowing valve, I wouldn't be suprised if they delayed that suggested time a few million years ahead to the point where men are impossible. We are doomed.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;43514590]The chance of anything being completely reformed at random is well.. random.
So on the bright side there is a minute possibility that the Earth will pop up again at the end of the universe due to a series of highly improbable and wholly coincidental events.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem[/url]
holle sheeeeeeet my brain
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