Well that's depressing. Everything is going to end, and I won't even be around for the cool stuff.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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Hey, it took 13.7 billion years for the arrangement of your consciousness in the universe. There's still 10^10^120 years until the heat death of the universe and there's always a probability that the arrangement of matter somewhere in the universe will result in you experiencing some kind of consciousness.
Maaan this is such a good find.
I used to gaze at books with these forecasts when I was in sixth grade, while having and existential crisis.
While people might think this is depressing, it gives me a strange sense of comfort knowing nothing will have ever mattered at some point in the future. Do what you want, when you want.
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Fuuuck. Seeing a 400 million year gap between all life on earth definitely going extinct, and the first close passage of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies kind of hurt to read. I always liked to imagine how it would look to people when it happened, and it just... Won't. It's a little scary watching the key slowly change into solely astronomical events, and then solely particle physical events as time goes on.