There are times I get depressed because immortality is unfeasible owing to the tendency of systems to move towards entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe.
The second one wouldn't really bother me a whole lot, because man if I lived that long, I would think it's an acceptable end point.
Being around for the end of the Universe would be pretty interesting.
There are times I get depressed because immortality is unfeasible owing to the tendency of systems to move towards entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe.
The second one wouldn't really bother me a whole lot, because man if I lived that long, I would think it's an acceptable end point.
Being around for the end of the Universe would be pretty interesting.
I'm pretty certain it would be boring as fuck
Druhim's just jaded because he was around for the beginning and it was not what he had hoped
Hey does anyone know if there are any image libraries or resources on the Web containing pictures of what it looks like on the bottom of the sea floor? Obviously it's pitch black down there, but I'm assuming they've sent probes with torches and shit down there...?
There are times I get depressed because immortality is unfeasible owing to the tendency of systems to move towards entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe.
The second one wouldn't really bother me a whole lot, because man if I lived that long, I would think it's an acceptable end point.
Being around for the end of the Universe would be pretty interesting.
I'm pretty certain it would be boring as fuck
Its easy to get an idea, just lock yourself in a lightless freezer.
There are times I get depressed because immortality is unfeasible owing to the tendency of systems to move towards entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe.
The second one wouldn't really bother me a whole lot, because man if I lived that long, I would think it's an acceptable end point.
Being around for the end of the Universe would be pretty interesting.
I'm pretty certain it would be boring as fuck
Druhim's just jaded because he was around for the beginning and it was not what he had hoped
seriously, what would be interesting about it? It would just be a slow, gradual trend toward absolute zero over billions of years
"Inside a black hole, the very fabric of the universe is collapsed into a point of infinite curvature -- known as a "space-time singularity," where the laws of physics no longer apply."
see, that's the thing terrifies me most about black holes.
it's not the fact that a black hole could destroy all life as we know it in one shot
it's the fact that a black hole is where math dies
correction, it's where our current mathematical models fail
it's silly to say that physics no longer apply, of course they do
we just don't have a way to explain what's going on in there and there's even some dispute as to whether black holes even exist as some physicists see the event horizon as being largely a copout for hiding what we don't have mathematical models for
some physicists think that bodies that would be considered dense enough for black holes would instead form naked singularities
the reality is much more interesting than some stupid fantasizing about Cthulhu lurking at the bottom of the ocean or technologically advance aliens waiting to invade our universe through a black hole or whatever nonsense you guys dream up when you read between the lines on these articles
OH NO TEH SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW IT COULD BE SPACE SQUID
yeah, they were confused by quasars when they first picked up radio signals from them but instead of aliens there was a perfectly rational, and much more interesting and illuminating explanation in the form of quasars
Man, if you don't think it would be at least slightly interesting to be the very last being in existence, to watch the universe finally putter out and end, then I don't know
I would find that to be a pretty momentous experience
Man, if you don't think it would be at least slightly interesting to be the very last being in existence, to watch the universe finally putter out and end, then I don't know
I would find that to be a pretty momentous experience
that's all we're saying Dru
dude
it would take literally millions of years for anything noticeable to happen
you could take a million year nap, wake up and look around, and you'd be all, "huh, looks pretty much the same as before"
what the fuck would be interesting about waiting millions and millions of years for the heat death of the universe? and even if you could go to the point at which everything hits absolute zero (assuming it ever does), there would literally be nothing to fucking see
basically it would be like watching a mug of coffee cool, except that mug of coffee would take billions of years to cool all the way
Man, if you don't think it would be at least slightly interesting to be the very last being in existence, to watch the universe finally putter out and end, then I don't know
I would find that to be a pretty momentous experience
that's all we're saying Dru
dude
it would take literally millions of years for anything noticeable to happen
you could take a million year nap, wake up and look around, and you'd be all, "huh, looks pretty much the same as before"
what the fuck would be interesting about waiting millions and millions of years for the heat death of the universe? and even if you could go to the point at which everything hits absolute zero (assuming it ever does), there would literally be nothing to fucking see
basically it would be like watching a mug of coffee cool, except that mug of coffee would take billions of years to cool all the way
Kids today. Everything's like a movie, even when it's anything but.
Back in my day....
also I was surprised to find out, from Dr. Cox on the Sunshine commentary, that humans could actually survive in space for like 30 seconds and not immediately become on ice cube
There is so much there that we will never see it. Humanity will not live long enough to see it all, at least not in our present state.
It is the final frontier, the final everything. We think we're seeing distances when we look through telescopes but we're actually looking back in time the further we go. Imagine being able to zoom in so close to the coast of Mexico that you could watch the Conquistadors landing, that you could gaze upon the Euphrates and watch mesopotamians carve troughs to irrigate their crops five thousand years ago.
But instead of mortal men we see innumerable stars, swirling vortexes, burgeoning gas clouds illuminated in spectrums of light beyond our sight, and over it all, an emptiness beyond emptiness.
it's pretty funny how people here can be so in love with and unenthused by science at the same time
like, science is awesome so long as it provides fuel for my fevered nerd imaginings
exactly, real science is so much fucking cooler
for instance, I find it fucking fascinating that while we have trichromatic vision, the pigment that allows us to see different colors (rhodopsin) is produced in three variants in humans (some women have an allele that actually produces a 4th version of rhodopsin that responds to different wavelengths and thus may have more sensitive color vision though this is unconfirmed).
we refer to the three different forms of rhodopsin in humans by the wavelengths they're most sensitive to: blue, green, and red respectively
however, there's a catch
ignore the dashed line, the colored lines represent how sensitive each "type" of rhodopsin is to different wavelengths of light, but you'll notice that green and so-called "red" rhodopsin are actually sensitive to very similar wavelengths
turns out that red rhodopsin actually isn't that sensitive to red wavelengths after all! so the image processing that takes place in the retina (behind the cones and where the signals from the cones go first) can be tricked into determining that red is present when it isn't because we actually aren't that sensitive to red light
that is fucking fascinating
but most of you fags would rather imagine space squids based on some space anomaly
it's pretty funny how people here can be so in love with and unenthused by science at the same time
like, science is awesome so long as it provides fuel for my fevered nerd imaginings
exactly, real science is so much fucking cooler
for instance, I find it fucking fascinating that while we have trichromatic vision, the pigment that allows us to see different colors (rhodopsin) is produced in three variants in humans (some women have an allele that actually produces a 4th version of rhodopsin that responds to different wavelengths and thus may have more sensitive color vision though this is unconfirmed).
we refer to the three different forms of rhodopsin in humans by the wavelengths they're most sensitive to: blue, green, and red respectively
however, there's a catch
ignore the dashed line, the colored lines represent how sensitive each "type" of rhodopsin is to different wavelengths of light, but you'll notice that green and so-called "red" rhodopsin are actually sensitive to very similar wavelengths
turns out that red rhodopsin actually isn't that sensitive to red wavelengths after all! so the image processing that takes place in the retina (behind the cones and where the signals from the cones go first) can be tricked into determining that red is present when it isn't because we actually aren't that sensitive to red light
that is fucking fascinating
but most of you fags would rather imagine space squids based on some space anomaly
I'm pretty drunk, so this is kinda confusing, but it is also fascinating to me because I am red-green colorblind and fuck you Dad and your sex-linked traits
it's pretty funny how people here can be so in love with and unenthused by science at the same time
like, science is awesome so long as it provides fuel for my fevered nerd imaginings
exactly, real science is so much fucking cooler
for instance, I find it fucking fascinating that while we have trichromatic vision, the pigment that allows us to see different colors (rhodopsin) is produced in three variants in humans (some women have an allele that actually produces a 4th version of rhodopsin that responds to different wavelengths and thus may have more sensitive color vision though this is unconfirmed).
we refer to the three different forms of rhodopsin in humans by the wavelengths they're most sensitive to: blue, green, and red respectively
however, there's a catch
ignore the dashed line, the colored lines represent how sensitive each "type" of rhodopsin is to different wavelengths of light, but you'll notice that green and so-called "red" rhodopsin are actually sensitive to very similar wavelengths
turns out that red rhodopsin actually isn't that sensitive to red wavelengths after all! so the image processing that takes place in the retina (behind the cones and where the signals from the cones go first) can be tricked into determining that red is present when it isn't because we actually aren't that sensitive to red light
that is fucking fascinating
but most of you fags would rather imagine space squids based on some space anomaly
So does this mean if there is a light that emits a certain wavelength, it will look red to me when it actually isn't?
Now Dru, I am all for crazy whacko imagination science, I mean, fuck me if watching old Science Fiction films isn't some fun shit.
But that real science is also equally fascinating, but in a different way, you dig?
Honestly, for a little mind fuck here, its fun to imagine that through real science we will one day be able to understand and catalog how the brain imagines the approximation of science necessary to appear real in the realm of fiction.
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Druhim's just jaded because he was around for the beginning and it was not what he had hoped
Its easy to get an idea, just lock yourself in a lightless freezer.
it's silly to say that physics no longer apply, of course they do
we just don't have a way to explain what's going on in there and there's even some dispute as to whether black holes even exist as some physicists see the event horizon as being largely a copout for hiding what we don't have mathematical models for
some physicists think that bodies that would be considered dense enough for black holes would instead form naked singularities
the reality is much more interesting than some stupid fantasizing about Cthulhu lurking at the bottom of the ocean or technologically advance aliens waiting to invade our universe through a black hole or whatever nonsense you guys dream up when you read between the lines on these articles
OH NO TEH SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW IT COULD BE SPACE SQUID
yeah, they were confused by quasars when they first picked up radio signals from them but instead of aliens there was a perfectly rational, and much more interesting and illuminating explanation in the form of quasars
I would find that to be a pretty momentous experience
that's all we're saying Dru
it would take literally millions of years for anything noticeable to happen
you could take a million year nap, wake up and look around, and you'd be all, "huh, looks pretty much the same as before"
what the fuck would be interesting about waiting millions and millions of years for the heat death of the universe? and even if you could go to the point at which everything hits absolute zero (assuming it ever does), there would literally be nothing to fucking see
basically it would be like watching a mug of coffee cool, except that mug of coffee would take billions of years to cool all the way
But it's still cool to speculate about it, even if from an unrealistic stand-point. Like say watching it happen in ultra-fast-forward.
you convinced me, Dru
never mind
I'm gonna go shoot some more whiskey
Kids today. Everything's like a movie, even when it's anything but.
Back in my day....
also I was surprised to find out, from Dr. Cox on the Sunshine commentary, that humans could actually survive in space for like 30 seconds and not immediately become on ice cube
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But ok, you're probably right.
You're gonna be sittin' there. Expecting some fucking boring bunch of billion years.
THEN BAM THE MOST AWESOME AND GLORIOUS THING EVER TO HAPPEN IN THE UNIVERSE HAPPENS.
And you'll be all, "Fuck. Those bastards were right!"
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Dru and I live in Seattle.
You live in South Carolina.
Your powers are useless against us!
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Oh nooooooooooo
It is so monumentally fascinating.
So monumentally empty.
There is so much there that we will never see it. Humanity will not live long enough to see it all, at least not in our present state.
It is the final frontier, the final everything. We think we're seeing distances when we look through telescopes but we're actually looking back in time the further we go. Imagine being able to zoom in so close to the coast of Mexico that you could watch the Conquistadors landing, that you could gaze upon the Euphrates and watch mesopotamians carve troughs to irrigate their crops five thousand years ago.
But instead of mortal men we see innumerable stars, swirling vortexes, burgeoning gas clouds illuminated in spectrums of light beyond our sight, and over it all, an emptiness beyond emptiness.
Give me your keys
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for instance, I find it fucking fascinating that while we have trichromatic vision, the pigment that allows us to see different colors (rhodopsin) is produced in three variants in humans (some women have an allele that actually produces a 4th version of rhodopsin that responds to different wavelengths and thus may have more sensitive color vision though this is unconfirmed).
we refer to the three different forms of rhodopsin in humans by the wavelengths they're most sensitive to: blue, green, and red respectively
however, there's a catch
ignore the dashed line, the colored lines represent how sensitive each "type" of rhodopsin is to different wavelengths of light, but you'll notice that green and so-called "red" rhodopsin are actually sensitive to very similar wavelengths
turns out that red rhodopsin actually isn't that sensitive to red wavelengths after all! so the image processing that takes place in the retina (behind the cones and where the signals from the cones go first) can be tricked into determining that red is present when it isn't because we actually aren't that sensitive to red light
that is fucking fascinating
but most of you fags would rather imagine space squids based on some space anomaly
No they're shiny I want to hold onto them just a mite longer if you please.
I'm pretty drunk, so this is kinda confusing, but it is also fascinating to me because I am red-green colorblind and fuck you Dad and your sex-linked traits
So does this mean if there is a light that emits a certain wavelength, it will look red to me when it actually isn't?
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But that real science is also equally fascinating, but in a different way, you dig?
Honestly, for a little mind fuck here, its fun to imagine that through real science we will one day be able to understand and catalog how the brain imagines the approximation of science necessary to appear real in the realm of fiction.
Fictionally speaking, of course.
Wheels within wheels ect ect.