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[–] spicytuna62 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth...or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you've found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you'll probably get pretty bored of it all.

[–] ceenote 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ceenote 9 points 2 months ago

I don't think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time. Except this guy.

[–] voracitude 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether it's a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.

Once I know everything, then I might get bored.

[–] spicytuna62 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one's true, what'd be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.

If that's the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.

So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who's to say time doesn't also run in a circle?

[–] voracitude 2 points 2 months ago

Like the song goes,

Consensus is not a fact-based exercise

;D

[–] PugJesus 6 points 2 months ago

I was promised eternal life, not consciousness. That's cryosleep conditions right there.