Billion years

not only that, but i also wonder, if we relocated to a diffrent planet... crazy ass thoughts like, i donno its so hard to explain. maybe parellell universes that know were in danger help us get the means to transport (aliens) hell i dont know. i heard they were gonna blast through the moon, and i honestly think thats Morally wrong.

 

This is the 2nd time this week I've quoted this song, So I'll stop now:

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.



Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.



The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.


​

 

I also think sometimes, that existance doesnt mean anything, i feel as tho we walk side by side with every dimension. like, for insance, each dimension is constantly in play with every other dimension, but differ in really small, but in the shceme of things big way. its insane, like if i move my hand, every other dimension of my bieng is doing the same. i donno, too much lsd and creative thinking.

 

You should read some literature on string theory and the multiverse.

 

ill look it up when i get home, i actually have interest in this theory.

 

This kind of stuff really interests me. I've read a lot about things going on and things that will go on in the universe. Some very interesting things about the end of the universe.

 

I'm into astronomy.

In a couple billion your the andromeda galaxy will crash into us, this is unstopable. Even before that a few large objects will hit us and most likely kill us but we can asume there is some way around that. If somehow the solor system is still intact in 5 billion years our sun would of aged enough to the point where it has turned into a red giant and the Earth would turn into a lava pit.

Thats just a few little hints of our fate. Tons more but can't remember them now.

 

if i had a nickel for everytime someone said the moon or the sun or the earth was gunna blow up... i'd have a shitload of pennies.... in my opnion junkiedays, theres no way in hell anything that exists right now will exist when the moon blows up, and i'll start taking bets for the human race existing for more than 1 million years from now... and that would be against all odds anyways.

 

I'm pretty sure the human mind (mine anyway) is incapable of imagining the future, except as a fiction of the past. Plato's Forms be damned.

 

Who know's what Post-Human creatures will inhabit the future earth. I don't. Imagine if the dinosaurs didn't get owned by a huge asteroid and it's after effects...would there still be dinosaurs today?...and no humans? Like skidoo said, the future really IS impossible to imagine

 

Galaxies merge, they don't crash into each other. The chances of our solar system even being effected is literally astronomical.

And humans will be long gone in a billions years time.

 

Replaced by Cyborgs! I'd be a Cyborg if I could... I wouldn't want to be BlueTooth enabled though... No way.

 

World will be blown to shit by nuclear war in 1B yrs., tops.

 

You give us too much credit.

Just take a look at the geologic time scale and realize how insignificant we are, even on our planet, just another branch branch of evolution, perhaps the pinnacle of mammalian dominance.



Our planet is still growing and evolving, and we will be eventually succumb to a global extinction, like the dozens before us.

Our species rate of expansion can't continue indefinitely.

 

I don't know, I'm of a different hopeful opinion. we're near completion of the first star base, or what ever it's called that they're building where people can live.

it's just a matter of time, doubtfully in our lifetimes, till enough of these stations stretch across space to another inhabitable planet. planets to harvest resources would need to be taken advantage of along the way. Of course the journey couldn't be made by a human of today with todays technology, the trip would take longer than a lifetime. there are promising advances in quantum physics though, that would enable the journey one day.

I think our species is intelligent enough and adaptable enough to last a very long time. it's still a roll of the dice though. imagine if another hitler comes to power with nuclear capacity.

 

I've been playing with thoughts similar to this recently, only not as far away as other dimensions. Consider all the stimuli in our own dimension that humans are unable to sense due to the limits of our senses.

We've learned recently that elephants are able to comunicate at very low sound frequencies across miles, undetectable to any other species. When we hear a sound that an elephant makes the elephant meant it to be heard by another species. Snakes can see the body heat of a rat off the path in foliage, nearly undetectable to us, like we observe the moon in the sky. ants follow a chemical trail left by the leaders.

these are just a few stimuli that we are uneffected by, and they are all stimuli we are able to sense if they weren't out of our range. consider also stimuli we are not designed to sense. consider how different our world would be with more and enhanced senses.

 

The future is now! lol

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ha ha, funny stuff. yeah that's what I'm talking about. what really gets my imagination going is stimuli, that has to be about, that humans aren't capable of perceiving.

 

...would there still be dinosaurs today?... >we have crocs and aligators - they're pretty close

and rasta_man - i love that song - and entire movie, thank u.


i also agree - my birth is very unlikely - but i see that as proof of it's significance.

... but perhaps it's just a shit happens sort of thing that is random and meaningless - but i don't think so

and i have a hard time imaging myself at 70 or 80 nevermind anything else!