Our Future (gif)

clever_user_name · 2 years

Those people screaming about "peak sunlight" are so full of shit. We are at least 3 billion years from peak sunlight.

browster · 2 years

So in the long run, this comment will have no effect on anything.

purple43 · 2 years

gif exploded for a faster read: http://www.gifexplode.com/c8

ahithopel · 2 years

Reading the comments of people who found this "depressing" reminded me of a joke.

A professor is giving a lecture about the future of the solar system and mentions that in 6 billion years the earth will be destroyed by the expanding sun. Suddenly a man in the back of the audience jumps up and screams, "what?!?" The professor pauses for a moment and then repeats himself, "in 6 billion years the earth will be destroyed..."

The man is visibly relieved. "Phew," he says, "for a moment there I thought you said 6 million years."

tl;dr - you won't be there, so don't worry about it.

TheDentite · 2 years

Oh shit oh shit oh shit, we're running out of time!

phyrewall · 2 years

educational media from YTMND? WTF?

bjorn · 2 years

I was waiting for it to say "Duke Nukem Forever is released".

hennell · 2 years

I really hope the future is not Gifs.

Azradesh · 2 years

Our lives are so short. :(

jeepdays · 2 years

Since the Atlantic is an expanding ocean. I don't see how the rift could move toward the US. This Ocean should be growing. Plus after 50 million years California should be separated from the US. And after 250 million years Australia should have collided with Asia.

apmihal · 2 years

Let's preserve the human race so our offspring can die in the most unimaginably horrible ways the cosmos can devise.

Richeh · 2 years

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ShockaJesus · 2 years

The last question by Isaac Asimov

DevoALMIGHTY · 2 years

...and I thought I had it bad when I was fighting dudes in Scotland a couple hundred years ago.

mattv9782 · 2 years

When Africa and Europe merge in 50 million years, there's going to be a lot of mullato children.

buddha067 · 2 years

Very cool presentation...not sure how accurate the science is, but still nicely done.

Golf clap.

userax · 2 years

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" — yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.

One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.

iupetre · 2 years

Our future is looking ...

puts on sunglasses

bright.

astroblack · 2 years

I, too, look to YTMND for scientific research.

Dangger · 2 years

My bet is an alien race will come with a more "advanced" civilization (meaning better weapons) and enslave us all while converting us to their new religion.

Four hundred years after this, Earth will be the undeveloped planet (a third world planet if you may) where the alien races come for cheap drugs and sex.

EDIT: although it would be kind of sad if we were to find out we are the most advanced thing out there...

[deleted] · 2 years

My God, it's full of stars!

Klink-a-dink-dink · 2 years

Okay, but when do we figure out how to reverse Entropy?

aeromax · 2 years

The more I think about the distant future, the less it worries me. Of course I have a responsibility not to be a jackass and ruin it for everyone else, but further than that I know I'll be dead pretty soon. I won't be able to experience two days of the world's information, let alone recorded history, let alone anything that may come in the future. So my number-one priority is taking it easy, and making sure my descendants can do the same.

Also, cocks.

kristijan12 · 2 years

"So that human race might go on and witness..." Is, as if Australopithecus Afarensis has hyphotheticaly reached our technological level, and thoghut that 2-3 millions of years from his point he will be the same. Human kind is not going to exist as it is today. That is if we survive. What will become with us? Transhumanism will even be yesterdays news. Basically what will become of us wont be US.

salgat · 2 years

I would assume we would have terraformed Earth by 1 billion years...

ObamaCampaign · 2 years

why would it take 50 million years to explore the solar system?

ContentWithOurDecay · 2 years

I was under the impression that the Pacific would shrink and the Atlantic would get bigger. Anyone know which is true?

Cramjomlin · 2 years

Game over, man. Game over.

mentat · 2 years

Augh the pacing of that gif is mind-numbingly slow. I posted this as a reply to another comment, but I figured more people might be interested.

See all the images in one page through gifexplode

mthmchris · 2 years

I find everyone complaining about the speed of the animated GIF to be hilariously ironic.

[deleted] · 2 years

+1.1 billion years:

He who controls the spice, controls the universe.

[deleted] · 2 years

If only the republicans used their fear propaganda to inspire exploration, rather than war with each other, then we would've been out there already. But oh no, that would also require vision and would take time away from working towards the instant gratification of making a quick buck. Now here we are, sitting around on this little planet with astronomically expensive killing machines aimed at ourselves waiting for someone to pull the trigger.

snappyj · 2 years

Since when does science go into the WTF reddit?

xNIBx · 2 years

First of all, I am pretty sure that the Americas are moving away from Europe. If the Americas were crash into something, i would assume they will crash into east Asia.

Also the merging of andromeda with our milky way wont result in the destruction of many solar systems. There is a huge amount of empty space inside the galaxies, so the chances of something colliding with something else are actually really low.

Sawta · 2 years

And just imagine, somewhere among the dust of the remains of Earth, will be our long ago decomposed bodies.

It's kind of neat, when you think about it.

coppersink · 2 years

75 years simply arn't enough.

phudabulah · 2 years

I want my happy ending dammit!

xoites · 2 years

Shit! I never planned for this!

vepkenez · 2 years

I really wish I hadn't read that 1st thing in the morning...

capecodcarl · 2 years

God will not allow this to happen. He will just inject more hydrogen into the Sun and stabilize any orbits necessary.

JaseFace · 2 years

Awe-inspiring, and also a bit frightening.

zackks · 2 years

Humans will be extinct in 10,000 years.

woodrail · 2 years

I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.

slupo · 2 years

I remember in a high school science class when we were talking about the life cycle of stars, the teacher said the sun would go red giant in 5 million years and engulf the earth. The class gasped and the teacher looked down at his notes and said "Whoops. I meant 5 BILLION years." And for some reason the class sighed in collective relief.

FiredFox · 2 years

So, at what time period would Fox News blame all this on the Obama Administration?

petercooper · 2 years

This GIF misses the important point that in the 10³⁷ to 10⁶⁰ year range most baryonic matter will have disintegrated into smaller particles so pretty much nothing would exist anyway. Basically, with current thinking, we are screwed eventually even if we manage to otherwise technologically conquer the universe. So, nihilism basically makes sense after all ;-)

sydryx · 2 years

I like how the question mark at the end leaves the door open for a sequel.

antipode · 2 years

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN DAMMIT!

caimen · 2 years

the world must settle it's differences.

catalytica · 2 years

Assuming humans still exist in 50k years is very optimistic.

[deleted] · 2 years

Can entropy be reversed?

[deleted] · 2 years

human beings are incredible anthropologists and preservationist historians, its misguided to think the earth wouldnt be spun out of our solar system for preservation - like some frozen specimen in a mad scientists fridge.

our entire civilization is only a few thousand years ol. from living in mud holes to dna gene therapy, in a million years anything can happen.

[deleted] · 2 years

I think the post is the last frame, the human race getting its act together and working towards common goals of space exploration and settling on other worlds. Otherwise, the human race will never leave this planet and will end here.

I think the first real step to full scale human evolution will the getting past this HORSE SHIT called religion. Religion will bring about the end of the human race unless we can get this monkey off our backs.

kurin · 2 years

I like how the next interesting thing after 7.1 billion years is at 10¹⁷ years.

monkeymanD · 2 years

I found this really unsettling. Just way too many unfathomable ideas.

flostre · 2 years

Why does it matter to our solar system if our galaxy collides with another one? Isn't there enough space between our starts for their stars to pass through? Earth's distance to the sun is 0.0004% of the sun's distance to the next star.

BlueRenner · 2 years

I'm more impressed this didn't finish with a Rickroll.

JoshSN · 2 years

This should lead you to consider the inevitable question, if humanity must end, if only because the last star has been extinguished and the last recycled star has been extinguished and we've already tried getting energy from everywhere else...

How would you want the human race to end? What's the best possible final scenario?

raptosaurus · 2 years

Someone(or something) is wrong on the Internet! The Atlantic Ocean is currently expanding due to the presence of a divergent plate boundary along the center, while the Pacific Ocean is shrinking due to the subduction of the Pacific plate. Hence, it is the Pacific Ocean that will disappear when the continents re-collide, not the Atlantic.

mediocretes · 2 years

Needs more Black Hole Overture.

zelladolphia · 2 years

I got a little choked up a the end

rick-victor · 2 years

Our Future, (thanks futura)

grendel001 · 2 years

Does this mean I don't need to bother showering?

detaer · 2 years

Content from ytmnd, I was waiting the entire time for the goatse and was disappointed to find something of value. Thanks for the disappointment ytmnd.

mk_gecko · 2 years

I don't understand how the universe has specific laws of physics, at least what I think. I mean like a specific number of protons to neutrons to make an atom. Anyone explain?

WendyLRogers2 · 2 years

Practically speaking, you might as well write off human life as it is today, because maintaining our rather bizarre genome any length of time would be pretty nonsensical. Things change. So instead of fretting about humanity, instead broaden your horizons to other lifeforms, with all variety of different kinds of intelligence. This is not outside of possible in our lifetimes.

Since we have no practical way of traveling the vast distances needed for space travel quickly, the alternative is to build "ark ships" that will carry the genomes of life to other worlds, over the course of thousands of years. And if those who remain behind do develop faster means of transport, they can catch up to these ark ships and speed them on their way.

Once such a ship reaches its destination, it would breed, gestate, and raise rapidly maturing intelligent creatures, that would in turn do the same for other lifeforms, then start to systematically terraform the new planet.

mattegan · 2 years

Being an Atheist and seeing this makes me quite sad. I know that unless somebody invents a live-forever pill in the next 90 years (My lifetime), I'm never going to get to see what happens. Kind of depressing actually.

But, all the more reason to live life to its fullest!

KingofDerby · 2 years

And even after all that, Rick will still not give you up.

bdelgado · 2 years

I do not see any current politician properly addressing the fact than in 1.1 billion years, the earth will be essentially cooked by the sun. What plan do we have to counteract this?

mthe0ry · 2 years

I once had a conversation - I think on Reddit - about the collision with the Andromeda galaxy. Someone who was claiming to have an Astro background of some kind said that because galaxies are by far mostly just open, empty space, that the likelihood of a planet such as earth or even our solar system in full being struck by intergalactic objects is highly improbable. Anyone care to comment on that?

egbruce · 2 years

I feel better now.

stumo · 2 years

Infinity years: people still confuse its with it's.

i_forgot · 2 years

Has Al Gore seen this? Looks like we've already started down the path of solar system warming.

WTF

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