So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn’t mean we should stop postponing.
If human beings were the only intelligent life in the universe, then the difference between being wiped out by the sun versus the heat death of the universe is so mind boggling big, that it beggars belief.
So many - near infinite - civilisations could come and go.
Earth will become a molten blob in a few billion years… then over a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times later…
Whatever lives on Earth in a billion years from now, if it spreads out, will have a few billion times more billions of years to live.
The heat death of the universe is inevitable anyway 🤷♂️
So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn’t mean we should stop postponing.
If human beings were the only intelligent life in the universe, then the difference between being wiped out by the sun versus the heat death of the universe is so mind boggling big, that it beggars belief.
So many - near infinite - civilisations could come and go.
Perhaps one of them would find a way to endure.
Oh good, just what I needed with my comics. A side of existential dread.
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It came from Kelvin’s work on thermodynamics in the 1850s, and has been refined by many scientists since then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
It’s also the subject of a famous short story by Isaac Asimov: http://www.thelastquestion.net/
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Becoming? Always has been.
In this case, it sounds more like a them thing.
Earth will become a molten blob in a few billion years… then over a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times later…
Whatever lives on Earth in a billion years from now, if it spreads out, will have a few billion times more billions of years to live.
You’re assuming an eternal universe (as opposed to, e.g., a big crunch), which seems likely given the observed accelerating expansion of the universe.
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Love seeing someone act like a smug know-it-all while being ignorant to a pretty basic concept in cosmology.
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