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>Babby's first existential crisis: the thread

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>can't even accurately predict tomorrow's weather
>believing in arbitrarily distant predictions about the universe
lol

>>9314970
/thread

>>9314890
I'd say there are far more immediate things to worry about.
Also, this: >>9314970

>>9314890
Human's like to think they know things. We really don't know anything, and we never will.

But what we do know is that tomorrow the sun will rise, we'll wake up and get a bite to eat, and head off to class or work. That's all we need to know

>doesn't include white genocide

>>9314981
This.

>>9314991
Actually it does:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Future_of_humanity
>10,000 years from now: If globalization trends lead to panmixia, human genetic variation will no longer be regionalized, as the effective population size will equal the actual population size.[108] (This does not mean homogeneity, as minority traits will still be preserved, e.g., no disappearing blonde gene, but will rather be evenly distributed worldwide.)

>>9315007

>>9315041
*pat*

>>9315041
Don't worry, globalization trends WON'T lead to panmixia.

>>9314970
Can't predict your next cold
but in 200y you're dead

>>9315113
>but in 200y you're dead
Not necessarily, with the research into longevity.
Nice try though, my good sophist.

>Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.
best science quote

>>9314890
1. Who cares? We will never be able to leave the galaxy anyway. All that nonsense is unreachable.

2. So? You will be long gone before this even begins happening.

3. Protons do not decay. If they do, by the time they do, Earth will not even be in the thoughts of any creatures that existed a billion years before this happens.

4. Really? Interesting.

5. So if this happens, God comes into existence and sets everything in motion again.

6. Exactly. Quantum fluctuations happen and then we have another universe.

>>9315149
>Who cares? We will never be able to leave the galaxy anyway. All that nonsense is unreachable.
Wrong, we could, in theory, go to anywhere within the Local Group as it is gravitationally bound.

>>9314890

Let's say we die. If you don't exist anymore doesn't everything that the universe is or will do pass instantly until your next instance of existing again? Since you cannot perceive the state of existing anymore the rest of the universe should be reduced to a state you no longer experience. It still acts upon itself while you aren't in it but you can only experience the universe existing while you do right? even if infinite time passes shouldn't the moment we stop existing and start existing again be an instant? and if time really is infinite doesn't that mean all possibilities including existing again will happen?

>>9315118
>won't die
sure buddy

>>9315171
>your next instance
even if it's an atomwise copy of you, it won't be you

>>9315149
lul3d, not only is it possible to travel to any point within our local group at sublight speed its extremely probably because humans dgaf and will do whatever they think is cool