What are you doing in 100 Quintillion years?

[Fritzo]

Use this handy guide to plan your schedule:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future

 

[HN]

Party like it's 1999

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Not buying it. Somewhere in there Skynet will arise and prevent the rest from happening.

 

[rudeguy]

oh look: another $5mil wasted for some moron scientist to predict the future!!

 

[trmiv]

I hope vampires read this. It concerns them.

 

[IronWing]

No point steering now.

 

[zinfamous]

well, that's depressing.

 

[Ichinisan]

Use this handy guide to plan your schedule:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future

The earliest point uses the wrong color to describe humanity (the bit about the rapid evolution of language).

 

[Printer Bandit]

The Big Crunch will happen earlier.

 

[CottonRabbit]

oh look: another $5mil wasted for some moron scientist to predict the future!!

I see you have no idea what scientists actually do.

 

[rudeguy]

I see you have no idea what scientists actually do.

Sure I do.

They make guesses and beg for money to be able to prove them. However none are ever proven, so they need more money...and on and on and on

 

[MrDudeMan]

Sure I do.

They make guesses and beg for money to be able to prove them. However none are ever proven, so they need more money...and on and on and on

That sounds about right to me as well and I have some background in this area.

 

[Fritzo]

That sounds about right to me as well and I have some background in this area.

That graphic is a collection of theories and observations made over the last few decades, and you guys are over simplifying it.

Physicists don't say "What will happen to the universe in 100 trillion years", they learn how matter works at the quantum level, and from there they're able to see how matter ages, and THEN they're able to speculate on what will happen.

Some of the items on that graphic are bunk though. For instance, the "Mex Extinct" thing from degradation of the Y chromosome has been disproven.

 

[zinfamous]

That sounds about right to me as well and I have some background in this area.

Well, it's true. Science is the search for better questions. It wouldn't work that anything is ever "proven," but that was never the goal, anyway.

But of course it's not nearly as wasteful and useless a pursuit as Rudegauy wants to present it.

I mean, little Rudeguy would not have his insulin were it not for the "wasteful" scientists of the world.

 

[zinfamous]

That graphic is a collection of theories and observations made over the last few decades, and you guys are over simplifying it.

Physicists don't say "What will happen to the universe in 100 trillion years", they learn how matter works at the quantum level, and from there they're able to see how matter ages, and THEN they're able to speculate on what will happen.

Some of the items on that graphic are bunk though. For instance, the "Mex Extinct" thing from degradation of the Y chromosome has been disproven.

Yeah, that stuck out to me. My lab studies sex chromosome evolution and while it is still a theory that persists, particularly with one very prominent researcher, it really doesn't hold up.

Plus, if you actually read the chart, it mentions several death points for the earth, or universe, or the sun, or other planets in our solar system.

It is based on fine measurement, sure, but it represents many of the understood possibilities and how they might occur.

 

[rudeguy]

That graphic is a collection of theories and observations made over the last few decades, and you guys are over simplifying it.

Physicists don't say "What will happen to the universe in 100 trillion years", they learn how matter works at the quantum level, and from there they're able to see how matter ages, and THEN they're able to speculate on what will happen.

Some of the items on that graphic are bunk though. For instance, the "Mex Extinct" thing from degradation of the Y chromosome has been disproven.

ummm.....

what we can expect in 1,000 years, 10,000 years, a million, 10 quadrillion?

 

[Puppies04]

I'm going to necro this thread 1 day before the end of that infographic.

It will be glorious and I will be banned for the rest of eternity which will be 24 hours.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Even if it's just possibilities it really puts a perspective on our tiny lives in the grand scheme of things, and makes me think we need to get off this rock at some point in the next 100,000 years.

 

[routerguy]

At the end there I was waiting for a "Valve releases Half Life 3" joke.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Its missing a humanity pointer where women get a clue.

 

[HN]

Its missing a humanity pointer where women get a clue.

they got that part right :whiste:

 

[Matthiasa]

At the end there I was waiting for a "Valve releases Half Life 3" joke.

I saw that one before as well.

 

[Slew Foot]

Still waiting for my wife to put out

 

[rudeguy]

Still waiting for my wife to put out

Dude its not that hard at all...

...ooooooohhhh

You meant to you...


.....

 

[Fritzo]

Even if it's just possibilities it really puts a perspective on our tiny lives in the grand scheme of things, and makes me think we need to get off this rock at some point in the next 100,000 years.

You see the numbers, but you don't really get a perspective of the time scales. For instance, a million years doesn't seem like that long, but the human race has only been around for about 1/3 of that. One trillion years is over 72 times the age of the entire universe.

You might as well talk about "eternity" when you talk about times scales that far out.