Do not read unless you want to be a in a screwed up headspace. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future) I, personally, made a mistake in clicking.
Only other comment: 600 million years, that's it? ;_;
Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.
Quote from: Bruce Twillis on May 06, 2012, 03:40:23 AM
Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.
Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.
Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.
I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.
i'm not really bummed by the page, but goddamn i have 20 wikipedia pages open now
1 million years: Human race evolves into beings of pure energy. Runs around Universe asking lower beings...
"How is it going?"
/
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Human_encounter_suit.jpg)
Well i think well branch out to the stars eventually. I think it will probably be late in the game and well be a bit behind technologically compared to any other civilazations we come across. It does also occur to me though that the universe is still fairly young and that it is quite possible that we are the most advanced within about 500 light years. This also bums me out. I know youre more focused on evolution and that this shows to you how much more of a flicker we are. I see it more as look at how far our bumbling has gotten us in the past 40000 years. We destroyed our competitors and left the planet. Now if only we could stop destroying our competitors and go to mars.
Stellar metallicity. Thats what we should be looking for. Not earth analogues. If we can survive on say ceres it doesnt matter. We should look for stars with similar metallicity in our neighborhood. Oh and break the light barrier. Impossible though it is if we make all our scientists go to law school theyll figure it out.
I must admit though. 600 million does not seem like enough. But it will be a billion until everything dies out. And Homo sapiens descendant prob wont even be classified as mammals at that point. In the far far future red dwarves. Problem with that is any planet in the goldie locks zone will be tidally locked. Bright side= red dwarf life expectancy (spoiler- a red dwarf born tomorrow will so outlive sol that sol wont merit a mention). Seems to me that intelligent life is meant to develop in medium sized cities and then move into the suburbs when there goes the neighborhood.
:sigh: should not have read this thread until monday.
Also i am now convinced that i want to get a beer with kai. I was pretty certain before but now theres an itch.
50,000 years from now, all our clocks are gonna be messed up.
Quote from: Cain on May 06, 2012, 09:54:44 AM
50,000 years from now, all our clocks are gonna be messed up.
Um. :lulz:
:potd:
Newsfeed?
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on May 06, 2012, 03:10:10 AM
Do not read unless you want to be a in a screwed up headspace. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future) I, personally, made a mistake in clicking.
Only other comment: 600 million years, that's it? ;_;
I gotta admit, I have a hard time maintaining interest after 100,000 years.
Maybe I'm just a dick.
Wait, the universe is flat???
I'm not sure my brain can really handle that.
FLAT UNIVERSE THEORY
OK NOPE.
Quote from: Nigel on May 06, 2012, 03:48:12 PM
Wait, the universe is flat???
I'm not sure my brain can really handle that.
FLAT UNIVERSE THEORY
OK NOPE.
God's a troll. here's a flat 3 dimensional universe. Have fun!
06:10:10 06:40:23 07:48:45 08:51:02 10:00:34 10:23:00 10:26:42 10:43:26
12:54:44 06:39:26 06:45:38 06:48:12 06:50:02 08:17:28
My vote is for ask the BAR MAN for the BEER solution | tbc {maybe
CHUEN {monkey | follows dog Well i think its true La is flat
FLAT & Low ? So when the OREgone 8.69 Tsunomi occurs {in the next (um}? 4 score
more damage will take place in LA than along the entire Oregon Coast | counting
Seaside | as far as no PE | i see no excuse | i thought that THAT was a required
course | of curse i could be wrong | as my disconect is 99% | still there is robert
& the SafeWay checker ?/? i was going to check the signing TV time | ok later
i did not click K's page so i do not know but 600ma is bogus no mater whos
time frame is used | i use 24e7 rather than 250M per orbit as it fits a clock face
so be Asimov time its 2+100 Or net even 2.5 & 600m/24e7=2.5 exactly | got it?
Now where was i ? Just across the Gal.equator 12.9K'sA ago
THUS K's Quest must he about two holes plus a Half or S\N transit
same songs as -12 OR AS'ed .5 ORb back 125Ma Maybe i need to check 'eR
http://ebeltz.net/firstfam/geocolum.html | somwhere in the BLUE?
maybe k/T jus a min | K–T boundary is a geological signature, dated to 65.5 |NOPe
Try -120-130Ma ? like Plesiadapis and Purgatorius | Like PP ? Aptian (125 – 112 Mya)
i think U LOSt me on that 1 |-| The Barremian ? the BAR MAN ?
now that i would buy oh its 9:16 already gotta move along Maybe Mon
Quote from: Nigel on May 06, 2012, 03:48:12 PM
Wait, the universe is f la t???
OK NO PE.
I read the timeline of the near future, and discovered a startling omission: in the 2180s, there is no mention of Commander Shepard successfully punching, kicking and electrocuting every single species in the galaxy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAtjt5YMec&feature=related).
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on May 06, 2012, 04:48:45 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twillis on May 06, 2012, 03:40:23 AM
Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.
Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.
Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.
I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.
Put in proper terms, we have 300 times more future than we as a species has as a past.
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on May 06, 2012, 03:10:10 AM
Do not read unless you want to be a in a screwed up headspace. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future) I, personally, made a mistake in clicking.
Only other comment: 600 million years, that's it? ;_;
That sounds optimistic. I'm sure we can accelerate that a bit.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 06, 2012, 10:58:49 PM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on May 06, 2012, 04:48:45 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twillis on May 06, 2012, 03:40:23 AM
Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.
Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.
Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.
I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.
Put in proper terms, we have 300 times more future than we as a species has as a past.
That's pretty cool. I wonder if our descendants will look like us? I mean, technically they might not even be the same species.
Quote from: Nigel on May 07, 2012, 01:32:46 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 06, 2012, 10:58:49 PM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on May 06, 2012, 04:48:45 AM
Quote from: Bruce Twillis on May 06, 2012, 03:40:23 AM
Cant see link on phone but yeah that sort of stuff messes you up. 600 million is around the time that earth starts becoming uninhabitable right? Something like not enough carbon dioxide for plant life to survive? The dark era of the universe messes with my head.
Yeah. It is fucking with me, major. I mean, 600 million years is how long it's been since the Cambrian, more or less.
Shit. I'm just going to stop thinking about it. If humans last that long, I suspect we will have future tech to the level of moving stars, or cloning planets, or transporting biospheres to new worlds.
I just find it strange that the /beginnings/ stuff, which is also about a sense of space and deep time and huge scale, and terrifies a great deal of people, and that stuff is EXPANSIVE for me. It's the stuff on that page that gets me.
Put in proper terms, we have 300 times more future than we as a species has as a past.
That's pretty cool. I wonder if our descendants will look like us? I mean, technically they might not even be the same species.
I'm reasonably certain they'll look similar, but not the same.
Years and years ago, back when I was just a little girl, the Chicago Tribune ran an article called "Lucy in the Subway With Hominids", and discussed what would happen as you put more and more distant ancestors in a subway car with commuters. Cromagnon man and Neandrathals wouldn't raise any fuss, as their looks (we believe) are within the norms for modern humans. By the time you get back to Lucy, people are screaming and running into another car.
I like the idea that future humans, digging up our remains, will consider us monstrous, and I like the idea that almost everything they will come to believe about us will be utterly, completely wrong.
Maybe they'll find a frozen McDonald's. Like a bunch of Icemen. Or rather, mastodons.
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on May 07, 2012, 07:40:08 AM
Maybe they'll find a frozen McDonald's. Like a bunch of Icemen. Or rather, mastodons.
The fries will still be "edible."
But not nearly as healthy for them as several thousands of years old Egyptian tomb honey.
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on May 06, 2012, 03:10:10 AM
Do not read unless you want to be a in a screwed up headspace. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future) I, personally, made a mistake in clicking.
Only other comment: 600 million years, that's it? ;_;
No way, I love this stuff. I love shows like The Universe, and Through the Wormhole, where they show all of the stuff that's going to happen a long time from now that is inconsequential to us because we'll all be extinct or whatever. Of course, I always figure into all of the stuff the very probable possibility that it's all bullshit and what actually will happen will be completely different.