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[–] FlyingSquid 100 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is a bright future assumed?

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sun eventually goes supernova.

[–] FlyingSquid 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It doesn't. It's not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Yeah but in the process it'll scour the surface off the earth so it's not all bad news

[–] Donovar 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

[–] Rolando 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read in this book that there's a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t like food that talks to me before I eat it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out... are you listening?" "I'm listening." "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. "Clever." "That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector... backwards!" "Backwards?" "Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?" "And that's how the Universe began is it?" said Arthur. "No," said Ford, "but it's a marvelous way to relax.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not bright at all. That's the darkest thing.

[–] Donovar 4 points 1 year ago
[–] nomecks 8 points 1 year ago

Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thermonuclear reactions are very bright

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yall want a bright future but when people start actually fighting for one you show your colors as class betraying cowards

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

They want a bright future just for themselves. Not for the society as a whole

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[–] Fades 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future

[–] TheLadyAugust 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die....

[–] DeadOfMind 10 points 1 year ago

That's why it's called the bright future.. Right?

[–] paddirn 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as "antibiotics" again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too...

It's a good thing that people aren't anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|

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[–] Candelestine 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.

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

Ok, added some bars to the left

[–] Candelestine 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, much better. lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You want me to say "Feel free to GIMP your variants"? =\

P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

keep using 'photoshop' as a generic term and verb until it becomes 'generic enough' for adobe to lose its trademark. same with 'google' ftm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s

Instead use edit/make/search.

*Look how they massacred my ~~boy~~ English!*

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shhhhh it’s okay to let people enjoy things

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[–] Siegfried 3 points 1 year ago

Break the chains people!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] asteriskeverything 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We don't have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.

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