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[–] NegativeLookBehind 105 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?

[–] NegativeLookBehind 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What, are you crazy? Of course there will be cheese.

I can’t believe you would even ask me that

[–] mycodesucks 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Delicious spacedust.

It was exploded, then turned onto something green eventually, then something haunted consumed and excreted it, then something WAY MORE HAUNTED did a bunch of weird shit to it like letting little things fart in it.

Such delicious spacedust.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Excellent band, by the way.

[–] Caesium 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yess, I've seen them live twice and I still hope they'll tour again

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.

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[–] Feathercrown 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
[–] blazeknave 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I'm sure Germans have one

[–] EnderMB 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ein aha-erlebnis

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Verwunderung?

[–] Tikiporch 4 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Saganumenousness.

[–] CrazM13 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.

On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 5 points 2 months ago

Releasing the kraken

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he's got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If he had a TV show, I bet it could reach many people and we might all learn from him.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit. That was pretty profound.

[–] pete_the_cat 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love the line "when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself"

[–] Zoomboingding 13 points 2 months ago

I'd condense the whole post down to:

The universe is an ongoing explosion. Sometimes the exploded dust becomes haunted.

That's us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (13 children)

An explosion is pure entropy. It's high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner

We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order

The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps another way to think of it is that we're a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Or perhaps more eloquently:

we're the standing part of a harmonic fart

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just recently mentioned the conscious universe theory in conversation with a friend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] portuga 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The buddha explained this 2500 years ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.

The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.

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[–] General_Effort 8 points 1 month ago

I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.

You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It's more like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to "I'm not reading this".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Even crazier space dust!

[–] niktemadur 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But it wasn't really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol' relativistic expansion.

EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there's the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.

And that's what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.

That's just a whole other level of amazing than just saying "an explosion".

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