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>Saturn's rings are inherently unstable and will not be present in the relatively distant future.
>Due to the expanding and accelerating expansion of the universe, a vast majority of stars will not be visible after some time.
>Within a couple hundred years ago, science essentially did not exist. Today, anyone with a computer can contribute to digital simulations of protein folding

How does it feel to be born in just the right time?

>> No.4892763

eh these are all fuzzy numbers

who's to say that intelligent beings aren't inevitable

>> No.4892767

>>4892760

>Within a couple hundred years ago, science essentially did not exist

No.

>> No.4892771

>A few hundred years ago, science essentially did not exist, and entire fields were so open that amateurs could and did make truly important discoveries. Today, people who would have been amateur scientists 100 years ago spend all their time addicted to video games and the internet, while their computer crunches numbers for NGOs in the background using software made by other people.

>> No.4892788

Actually OP, some astrophysicists think that Saturn's rings have been present for a large fraction of the age of the Solar System now.
idk where the citation was but I read it somewhere

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>>4892771

>>A few hundred years ago, science essentially did not exist, and entire fields were so open that amateurs could and did make truly important discoveries. Today, people who would have been amateur scientists 100 years ago spend all their time addicted to video games and the internet, while their computer crunches numbers for NGOs in the background using software made by other people.


YOLO. Pic related

>> No.4892794

>Due to the expanding and accelerating expansion of the universe, a vast majority of stars will not be visible after some time.

Isn't this on the order of zillions of Solar lifetimes or something?

>> No.4892827

>>4892794
I've heard 10 billion years mentioned. Certainly not on your order of magnitude.
>>4892763
Of course it's fuzzy numbers.
>>4892767
Overstated, I'll grant you. It certainly wasn't as tuned as it is today.

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>You will never have your whole body augmented with neuroprosthetics
>You will never be able to jack your brain into a computer simulation where you can live out all your fantasies as if they were real
>You will never be able to take a one week vacation to Mars and tell your friends that Europa was better

>> No.4892851

>>4892849
>You will never have your whole body augmented with neuroprosthetics
Don't count that out yet... 60 years is a long time!

>> No.4892857

>>4892849
>You will never be able to jack your brain into a computer simulation where you can live out all your fantasies as if they were real
>implying you aren't jacked into a computer simulation right now
>implying the universe is real

>> No.4892872

>billions upon billions years
>"after some time"

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>>4892849
Oh come on, just freeze your brain if you're worried about that.

>> No.4892877

>>4892760
Pretty amazing. It makes me wish we were more evolved and not still fighting over the same old shit. We could really make some shit happen if we were.

>> No.4892944

>>4892877
do you even know what 'evolved' means?

>> No.4892954

>>4892944
Maybe he meant advanced but use the wrong word, give him a break

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