Expansive perspective

[Muse]

Watched Superman The Movie (1978) this week, part of my personal Gene Hackman festival. At the beginning they hypothesized that there are 26 galaxies in the universe, obviously ridiculous with what we know now. So I just looked that up:

Estimates suggest there are between 200 billion and 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, but the true number is likely much higher, potentially infinite, due to the universe's vastness and the limitations of current observational capabilities.

I'm reading a very interesting Wikipedia page (I love Wikipedia!) on the future of the earth. Has lots of info new to me. For instance, I'd never heard of gamma ray bursts, the largest releases of energy in the universe except for the Big Bang itself. I did know (very common knowledge) that the earth will be destroyed (absorbed) by the sun in 5-7.5 billion years when it turns into a red giant. Ah, but that's a mere bauble:

Future of Earth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[biostud]

Watched Superman The Movie (1978) this week, part of my personal Gene Hackman festival. At the beginning they hypothesized that there are 26 galaxies in the universe, obviously ridiculous with what we know now. So I just looked that up:



I'm reading a very interesting Wikipedia page (I love Wikipedia!) on the future of the earth. Has lots of info new to me. For instance, I'd never heard of gamma ray bursts, the largest releases of energy in the universe except for the Big Bang itself. I did know (very common knowledge) that the earth will be destroyed (absorbed) by the sun in 5-7.5 billion years when it turns into a red giant. Ah, but that's a mere bauble:

Future of Earth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We probably have destroyed ourselves long before that, but the mere fact that the existence of Earth is finite, is to me a really interesting dilemma.

 

[igor_kavinski]

So yeah, there is a species like us out there in the darkness of the cosmos. They are better than us in every way and they are not even trying to find us because they don't care and their lives are awesome.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

We probably have destroyed ourselves long before that, but the mere fact that the existence of Earth is finite, is to me a really interesting dilemma.

It's probably finite, the level of which depends on how involved we get.

 

[pmv]

We probably have destroyed ourselves long before that, but the mere fact that the existence of Earth is finite, is to me a really interesting dilemma.

It means it would be a really bad idea to gain immortality. What a boring and uncomfortable future that would lead to.

 

[Muse]

It means it would be a really bad idea to gain immortality. What a boring and uncomfortable future that would lead to.

Well, it's not considered impossible for the human race to perpetuate itself by inhabiting a planet in a different solar system.

This video by a scientist explains this in detail:

Steven Kilston on a planned extraterrestrial expansion of the human race

 

[Charmonium]

It means it would be a really bad idea to gain immortality. What a boring and uncomfortable future that would lead to.

I believe that it is a well established principle that any troublesome matters can be disposed of with correct application of opium.

 

[skyking]

For the common person who believes science,
The Hubble deep Field image changed everything.
It's one thing for Carl Sagan to say billions and billions over and over again. It's entirely another to see that picture and try to wrap your head around it.

 

[Muse]

For the common person who believes science,
The Hubble deep Field image changed everything.
It's one thing for Carl Sagan to say billions and billions over and over again. It's entirely another to see that picture and try to wrap your head around it.

Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org