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[–]mcbighead 315 points316 points ago

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Well there goes my plan of living forever.

[–]ArcaneAmoeba 228 points229 points ago

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I only want to live indefinitely. Living forever, without being able to end your existence when you get bored, would suck.

[–]ANewMachine615 123 points124 points ago*

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The option of ending your life would eventually be far, far worse than the predetermined immortality.

Imagine it: you've lived for a million lifetimes longer than any other organism. You have traveled through the deeps of space, seen stars burst and fade, galaxies birthed and torn apart, life itself begin and end on a hundred planets a hundred different ways. And you ask yourself, "Is this all? Have I finally seen everything, experienced everything? Is there no more to teach, no more to learn, no more to feel and see and taste and touch and fear and love?" You have seen so much, you know the value of life, its fragility. Your own is not, but everything else is fleeting, every moment more precious than you can express. You have a rare gift. Even boredom is just another sign of your ability to feel wonder - you remember it, and you crave it anew. You ponder whether there are new wonders to be seen beyond death, but if there are, they are eternal. They will wait for you to decide. If you choose wrong, though, the material universe will spin out its unlikely beauty and horror and meaningless song without you, forever.

And here you sit, lost between the stars, a gun in your hand, wondering if you can bear to give it up, to surrender what so many have fought for, to end everything that you are when there are so many who are never given the choice. And you wonder if you've seen it all yet. And you know you never can, not til heat-death claims everything and you don't even have the energy to pull the trigger.

[–]Schym 10 points11 points ago

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Well I just got a whole new spin on Doctor Who.

[–]squig 21 points22 points ago

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Nice try, Captain Jack Harkness.

[–]Unidan 31 points32 points ago

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Then you go to pull the trigger, only to realize that without the correct oxygen mix in the atmosphere, the gun is useless.

You float away, crying a single tear which instantly evaporates out of your tear gland, not even once staining your cheek.

[–]MattyG 21 points22 points ago

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Gunpowder actually doesn't use any of the oxygen in the atmosphere and will fire in almost any environment.

[–]Unidan 16 points17 points ago

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Well, it's actually more the case that modern firearms contain their own CO2 within the firing mechanism of the bullet itself, but sure, fair enough, I get the point.

The real point I'm trying to make here is that without tears, no one will know you're sad.

[–]QuintessentialNerd 8 points9 points ago

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...what does carbon dioxide have to do with it?

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points ago

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Silence, grown men are pretending to science right now.

[–]JustinTime112 2 points3 points ago

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IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU CRY

[–]dazilla 15 points16 points ago

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[–]David_Crockett 22 points23 points ago

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There would always be something to do/explore/investigate/invent/tinker with/look at/think about.

[–]ZaphodAK42 7 points8 points ago

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Even though I am young, I have come to the point where I must consciously engage myself or life becomes unbearably dull. During the times where I cannot consume media, my mind serves as a wonderful playground in which I could live forever. If I were subjected to physical immortality as I am now, even hurling through space I could survive.

[–]Plucka_Duck 15 points16 points ago

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Even though I am a Duck, I have come to the point where I must consciously engage myself or the pond becomes unbearably dull. During the times where I cannot consume worms, my mind serves as a wonderful playground in which ducks could live forever. If ducks were subjected to physical immortality as we are now, even hurling through space we could survive

[–]mo0g0o 3 points4 points ago

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Why? What do you think happens when you die? Ceasing to exist seems like a bad alternative to possibly experiencing everything.

[–]stamy 3 points4 points ago

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[–]Hughtub 2 points3 points ago

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If I could live forever, and have infinite powers of omniscience, I'd probably get bored. I might create little life forms to worship me, but then being omniscient I'd know what they'd do, so even that would be boring. I'd talk to them for a while, but then get bored. Finally, I'd just make appearances in toast and sidewalks, and piss stains beside urinals.

[–]gogog0 31 points32 points ago

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Disagree completely

[–]MrMaybe 50 points51 points ago

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Why?

[–]Titties 58 points59 points ago

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Imagine floating through space in agony, alone, for eternity.

[–]IamaAlt 138 points139 points ago

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Imagine working in a cubicle from 9-5 in agony, alone, for what seems like eternity.

[–]honestcorey 24 points25 points ago

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I don't need to imagine this. It is my life :(

[–]zombiegodzilla 14 points15 points ago

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I'll try and imagine it for the next eight hours

[–]megakwood 7 points8 points ago

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Space, space wanna go to space. Space?

[–]smalec 26 points27 points ago

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no, really; eternity is something a human mind could not handle, most cruel of all things regardless of what you could possibly do.

[–]TalesAbound 78 points79 points ago

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A human mind might be able to handle it. Nobody has lived long enough to give an answer.

[–]rat2255 74 points75 points ago

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For anyone with further interest

futuretimeline.net

[–]xenonscreams 5 points6 points ago

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Not gonna lie, I honestly felt guilty reading the predictions of what will happen during my lifetime. It's written in a way that makes it seem so real that I felt like I was reading spoilers. I almost had to close it because I felt like I was going to ruin the future for myself.

[–]SuperCyan 9 points10 points ago

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This is awesome.

[–]Styroplank 257 points258 points ago

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[–]PiR8_Rob 77 points78 points ago

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All I could think was, "Get your ass to Mars."

[–]koshercowboy 50 points51 points ago

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Hey man, I've got five kids to feed!

[–]Leezard 42 points43 points ago

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S'okay. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.

[–]koshercowboy 33 points34 points ago

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In fact, It's cold as hell.

[–]ikasawaK 24 points25 points ago

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And there's no one there to raise them ... if you did.

[–]Bernie_Roscoe 16 points17 points ago

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blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band.

[–]dafragsta 30 points31 points ago

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Hold me closer Tony Danza.

[–]zaper002 10 points11 points ago

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You lay me down in cheese and Lenin.

[–]TexasBreaux 3 points4 points ago

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And all this science I don't understand

[–]SnipesType 3 points4 points ago

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I thought you said it was four.

[–]TylerKeys 27 points28 points ago

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Thank you for actually linking to the source. One of my favorite YTMNDs for sure.

[–]Red-Pill 19 points20 points ago

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The music really makes it, imo.

[–]SheepShanker 3 points4 points ago

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it really is an awesome "epic" theme. great movie, too. :)

[–]fall0ut 2 points3 points ago

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i double checked to see if my computer speakers were not set to mute.

[–]toenexx 9 points10 points ago

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Yes, thank you for linking the source.

[–]DarkKobold 3 points4 points ago

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I prefer the gif with music. God, I hate that I know that meme.

[–]staticfish 284 points285 points ago

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IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER.

[–]sandandpomp 98 points99 points ago

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Wow, that just blew my mind, but I realize now that my mind being blown doesn't mean shit...

[–]sje46 58 points59 points ago

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The fact that you're insignificant in the grand scheme of things is in itself insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

[–]heresybob 43 points44 points ago

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So. Can we have your liver?

[–]FreshPrinceOfAiur 4 points5 points ago

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for strength.

[–]QuintessentialNerd 3 points4 points ago

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I'm going to start shamelessly stealing this line. Do you prefer "Random guy on the internet" or "Great mind whose path I never crossed." ?

[–]real_nice_guy 3 points4 points ago

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other things being blown however...

[–]sk8king 799 points800 points ago

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Horrible as an animated gif. Should be a page of multiple pictures.

[–][deleted] 186 points187 points ago

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Or linked to the YTMND so we can get the sound too

[–][deleted] 152 points153 points ago

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[–]dowhatthouwilt 11 points12 points ago

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Where is the music from? (I'm assuming it's not conducted by the YTMND orchestra)

[–]flibbertigibbit 20 points21 points ago

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It's the theme from Total Recall. FYI, clicking on the YTMND logo will open a banner, which reveals the source of the image(s) and music.

[–]benshere 90 points91 points ago*

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gifs with sound?? now thats the future.

edit: context

[–]xoe6eixi 30 points31 points ago

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1.2+ Billion Years from Now: .gifs with Sound

[–]Garrosh 138 points139 points ago*

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[–]drunkenbozo 22 points23 points ago

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You missed 2.9 Billion years.

[–]SnakeDiver 17 points18 points ago

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He missed 2.9 to 5.4 billion years. Not really much in the scheme of things I guess.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points ago

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Really? That was one hell of a nap!

[–]walkerism 9 points10 points ago

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That dance wasn't as safe as they said it was.

[–]timothyjwood 75 points76 points ago

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Needs to be narrated by Morgan Freeman.

[–]ArcaneAmoeba 36 points37 points ago

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Can you think of anything that wouldn't be better narrated by Morgan Freeman?

[–]landsealions 93 points94 points ago

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Things narrated by Attenborough.

[–]grae313 26 points27 points ago

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Things narrated by Werner Herzog.

[–]notadr 13 points14 points ago

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Any Porno.

[–]nascentt 30 points31 points ago

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I'd be willing to give it a try.

[–]acemnorsuvwxz 14 points15 points ago

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What happened to http://www.gifexplode.com ?

[–]deathbytray 46 points47 points ago

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Gifexplode shut down a while ago. Apparently, there is not a lot of money in gifexploding business.

[–]2centimetersofglory 11 points12 points ago

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The money is in the animated .jpg's!

[–]deathbytray 7 points8 points ago

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Invest in bananastand.com. There's always money in it.

[–]kelull 2 points3 points ago

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With sound!

[–]TheLantean 5 points6 points ago

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Here's a Chrome extension that does the same thing: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbdacbnhlfdlllckelpdkgeklfjfgcmp

[–]minno 2 points3 points ago

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http://editgif.com works well enough for me.

[–]SmellingYellow 120 points121 points ago

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why would the Earth return to Pangea? wouldn't it turn into anti-Pangea with the Pacific collapsing and the Atlantic expandinging? I coulda sworn there was a name for the next supercontinent too... Any one know?

[–]ronaldp 268 points269 points ago

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The earth's plates are in a constant cycle of Super-continent multi-continent formation. It was merely the most recent supercontinent that was called Pangaea. The one before that at about a billion years ago was called Rodinia. Before that was Nuna, Kenorland and the first one was Vaalbara. This animation goes by the 'Pangaea Ultima' hypothesis whereby the mediterranean closes and the atlantic and indian oceans continue to grow. This is unsustainable and will eventually form new subduction zones which will pull all the continents back together again. There are in fact at least 2 other future supercontinent hypothesis - the 'Amasia' model and 'Novopangaea' model which both come to different conclusions as to which faults will fail first and how the plate evolution will progress.

[–]Poseus 28 points29 points ago

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Geologists are the best at coming up with names.

[–]PeteFord 88 points89 points ago

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It's crazy to think that this discipline of geology is only like 50 years old.

[–]SmoothWD40 15 points16 points ago

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That was very informative and what I come to reddit for. Here sir, have my upvote and a tip of the hat.

[–]JohntheShrubber 29 points30 points ago

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Exactly. Why, how, and when does the Mid-Atlantic Ridge stop being a divergent tectonic boundary? I'm asking this question seriously.

[–]mindbodyproblem 2 points3 points ago

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[–]Bezzie 2 points3 points ago

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this is exactly what i thought when i saw it going back to Pangea

[–]Maxmanta 98 points99 points ago

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6.7 billion years? That's enough time for another bath, I'd say.

[–]adarvan 5 points6 points ago

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Who knows, we may all even score a date by then!

[–]trua 27 points28 points ago

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Well at least we orbited the Sun before it was cool.

[–]fotoman 22 points23 points ago

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but, but, we have to stop gay marriage NOW!!!

[–]frolix8 3 points4 points ago

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Or accelerate it.

[–]liberalis 206 points207 points ago

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1030 billion years. Univac has crunched the data, discovers the means of reversing entropy and utters the imortal phrase "Let there be light."

[–]BTMPL 52 points53 points ago

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[–]Verzingetorix 18 points19 points ago

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Man, i was looking for that short story for a while now. Couldn't find it anywhere. Now that you mention Univac it just hit the right neurons. Thanks.

[–]Felipe058 54 points55 points ago

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The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, for those curious.

[–]schmeebis 15 points16 points ago*

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Great story though!

EDIT: Removed meta-spoiler

[–]Sirrush 6 points7 points ago*

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Thanks for pointing that fact out. Without you I wouldn't have known and as such it would not have been a problem.

[–]slatterboy 5 points6 points ago

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Love this story

[–]Gonzotheo 8 points9 points ago

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Fuck it, I'm going back to fifthworldproblems.

[–]Calobez 21 points22 points ago

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Even if it is just theoretical, it really makes you mad at petty shit that we're going through right now.

[–]NaziButler 29 points30 points ago

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Remember, it took hundreds of thousands of years for man to discover agriculture, then another 10,000 or so years to come to today, with all of our powerful scientific and philosophical discoveries.

A hundred years ago we were still using horses to pull buggies and plows. Now we have sent men onto the moon and put satellites to the very edge of our solar system.

I hate the petty stuff too... but look at the timeline of the universe, then contrast it to the timeline of mankind. It is amazing what we have done, despite everything that afflicts us. Do not be mad.

[–]notanotherpyr0 9 points10 points ago

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We are the tools with which the universe understands itself, that is the most sacred duty we know of and something that should not be taken lightly. As far as we know currently we are the only way for the universe to understand itself so as far as I'm concerned the preservation and extension of that knowledge should be the top priority of humanity. If I ever start a religion that will be its foundation, that in the end the knowledge of our place in the universe is what makes humanity special and the most amazing thing we know of. A star never knows its a star, a black hole never knows its a black hole but some little clumps of water and dirt on a water covered rock know that's what they are. The end product of the fusing and explosions of millions of stars that formed a chain of atoms capable of recognizing what they are and what surrounds them.

[–]DoubleX 79 points80 points ago

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This makes me feel very small.

[–]Learfz 146 points147 points ago

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[–]shwinnebego 109 points110 points ago

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The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula--for that was his name--was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex--just to show her.

And into one end, he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other, he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain, but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

After being put into the vortex and surviving, Zaphod Beeblebrox explained how he did it: “It just told me what I knew all the time. I’m a really terrific and great guy. Didn’t I tell you, baby, I’m Zaphod Beeblebrox!”

[–]fishfingergirl 33 points34 points ago

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This frood really knows where his towel is.

[–]jingerjew 5 points6 points ago

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I didn't realize this was from Hitchhiker's Guide, but I still read it in the narrator's voice from the BBC series.

[–]caboosemoose 3 points4 points ago

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I am awed by the idea that someone can auditorialize (is there an equivalent word to visualize for hearing?) Peter Jones, which makes you a fair H2G2 geek, without being able to reproduce the above passage from memory.

[–]LuckoftheFryish 29 points30 points ago

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It's the "observable universe" that ruins my day. Beyond that line I'm being taunted by what I cannot ever see.

[–]Exodus2011 9 points10 points ago

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See, yes yes. But what about what we can't smell?

[–]wonderwill 19 points20 points ago

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Myyyyyyy braaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn

[–]johnq-pubic 13 points14 points ago

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Also very large it seems.

[–]sty1emonger 2 points3 points ago

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I have never seen my nightmares depicted so accurately. Thanks!

[–]dsac 4 points5 points ago

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you think you feel small now?

watch this.

[–]Pieloi 338 points339 points ago

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50,000+ Years, Half life 4 is released.

Well atleast that's what I was expecting.

[–]IceRay42 33 points34 points ago

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Im glad I wasn't the only one expecting a Half Life 3 joke. Or at least something along that vein.

[–]Rhendal 10 points11 points ago

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Or DNF2.

Also, hey Mog!

[–]IceRay42 27 points28 points ago

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Waitaminute! I know you! From some OTHER part of the internet!

MY INTERNETS ARE COLLIDING, THE END IS NIGH.

[–]CitizenDane27 18 points19 points ago

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Watching this gave me the strangest urge to tell my wife I love her. I'm not even married.

[–]AnswersWithAQuestion 41 points42 points ago

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+50,000 years ...Humans are most likely exploring beyond our solar system by now.

Um yeah, we fuckin better be. Otherwise I'm going to be monumentally pissed. Futurama is set only 1,000 years into the future, and they already have an intergalactic civilization. This would surely become the biggest disappointment since the hoverboard.

[–]PhatZounds 5 points6 points ago

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Or mass effect.

[–]skinnybuddha41 132 points133 points ago

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This actually made me sick

[–]RaithMoracus 85 points86 points ago*

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Kinda made me realize that there is a distinct possibility I am afraid of death, because of the very harsh realization that I will not go through reincarnation, nor will I go to heaven. And that my maybe 60 years left on this planet are nothing compared to what is truly left in humanity's lifespan as a species.

I kinda wanted to shoot myself. What's the point of living if there is no point to life? 

[–]CognitiveLens 167 points168 points ago

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Of all the trillions of people who will ever live, you are one of the very few who has the chance to be alive right now. That's pretty awesome, and it would be a shame to waste it. What's interesting about right now is that we truly have the ability to determine whether or not our species has a chance to exist much longer, and so our actions now have potentially much more "point" than at most times in human existence. Even though each one of us can only make a small contribution, it can be incredibly meaningful to the people around us now and in the future.

[–]imasunbear 13 points14 points ago

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Thank you for reinstilling my will to live.

[–]nannerpus 14 points15 points ago

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You must have a very tenuous will to live. Do you frequently flip-flop on matters of life or death?

[–]knowhatimsayin 2 points3 points ago

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it only takes one voice to start a revolution.

[–]jimofwales 3 points4 points ago

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Or one person setting themselves on fire.

[–]reverendjay 23 points24 points ago

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I.... I absolutely loved that. I don't know what you've just done but that came out as solid gold.

Seriously, thank you. That little thing touched me today.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points ago

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That little thing touched me today.

Interesting choice of words there.

[–]reverendjay 23 points24 points ago

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And suddenly my hatred of humans returns. Well at least I had a few minutes of bliss.

[–]redmongrel 4 points5 points ago

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Also, iPhones!

[–]DozTacosPorFavor 36 points37 points ago

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Why does there need to be a point to life? Imagine that life is a vacation and that at the end of it you have to go back to a really shitty job. Better make the most of it while you can.

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[–]green_eggs_and_spam 15 points16 points ago

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i agree. makes me wonder why i'm working during my 60+ year vacation. :D

[–]Copse_Of_Trees 17 points18 points ago

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Makes we wonder what the work is if this is the vacation.

[–]real_nice_guy 4 points5 points ago

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i guess decomposing is a pretty shitty job.

[–]Petardfoozer 20 points21 points ago*

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Jesus man, that's a terribly depressing outlook, but 100% true

Edit:

Also, 42

[–]YesNoMaybe 18 points19 points ago

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Life is its own point.

[–]Contradiction11 12 points13 points ago

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Your life is infinitely better right now because of the toil of billions of humans, the bravery of millions and the genius of a few. It is your life's purpose to pay it forward.

[–]thegrammarmonkey 4 points5 points ago

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As I read this, my bowels produced the most satisfying movement. I feel like that turd was holding out on me for too long, but I have now vanquished the recalcitrant, rascally stool. I've got a little bit of a burning sensation about my bunghole now; my poo did not go quietly into that good night.

Soon I will flush this log. It will swirl down into the municipal sewer system, losing its individuality amongst the underground rivers of waste, sure to become but a drop in some great fecal lake, man's twisted creation of necessity.

I am the universe's poo nugget. One day I, too, will be flushed, will dissolve into the great pond of decay from which all of us arose, to which we all shall return. Just as my poo now awaits infinite new forms as it is processed by man and ecosystem, so shall my present form be rearranged into infinite possible beings after my passing. One day, I may even be a space poo.

[–]QuartzDurian 9 points10 points ago

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I live a comfy life. There are many for which life is actively and persistently painful in ways that are hard to imagine. So I make it my prerogative to use the comfort of my life to help those who must suffer through theirs. It's the only way I can justify my existence.

[–]kmorrell27 7 points8 points ago

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If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do.

[–][deleted] 95 points96 points ago

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It made me jealous of anyone that gets to witness our struggle for existence. The last frame had a pretty inspiring quote as well.

[–]iamcase 68 points69 points ago

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The end?

[–]Kris0r 57 points58 points ago

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Damnit! who typed a question mark on the end of the TelePrompter? For the last time Ron will read anything you type

[–]NewToUni 22 points23 points ago

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Wow, there is an EXACT quote of what you just said in the movie Anchorman. What are the chances??..

[–]bochicha 6 points7 points ago

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Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?!

[–]BarcodeNinja 2 points3 points ago

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we are struggling now, and have been since the first protein started replicating itself.

[–]Gobbagu 9 points10 points ago

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Here's another one to make you feel sick and pointless.

EDIT: Forgot link, ugghh. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

[–]Toastmaster_General 6 points7 points ago

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Yeah, this topic always make me sick in the stomach when I think about it. It feels like there's a rock in my stomach and my stomach's constricting at the same time.

[–]Kryten_2X4B-523P 21 points22 points ago

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The .gif said that most life would be underground or in the last few moist areas in about 1 billion years. Think about this. We estimate that life started over 4 billion years ago. If that's correct than technically life doesnt have much more time on this earth.

[–]klngarthur 28 points29 points ago

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Keep in mind that for the majority of that 4 billion years life was limited to unicellular organisms. Multicellular life has only been around for ~1.2 billion years and complex life(eg animals) has only been around about half that. So in those contexts, 1 billion years is still quite a bit of time =)

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points ago

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So multicellular life is now having a mid-life crisis?

[–]laivindil 7 points8 points ago

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aka humans.

[–]zuperxtreme 17 points18 points ago

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Most life on this planet. A billion years from now the human species(if it's still around), won't be on Earth. We'll probably watch from far away as Earth slowly dies.

[–]ewest 11 points12 points ago

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I was living life before it was underground.

[–]HireALLTheThings 8 points9 points ago

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Not gonna lie. My head spun a bit, too.

[–]relationship_tom 10 points11 points ago

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It gave me great relief. That and the interactive size of the universe link posted below by Learfz. Things like this always do.

It really puts in to perspective how free you are to live your life how you want and decide your own meaning in it. Because in the grand scheme of things, the asshole that cut you off, the relatives that are disappointed you aren't a doctor, the girl that cheated on you, the savings you blew through by going on a 2 year vacation instead of putting a down payment, and the many, unrelated jobs you do to pay the bills or to see what you like really are insignificant.

Hell, human beings as we know it will be around only for a very brief time in the scope of just the modern history of Earth. it gets me off the computer every once in a while.

[–]StinkinLizaveta 55 points56 points ago

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Thank you. I am now depressed.

[–]TjallingOtter 10 points11 points ago

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Oh wow, you know that you're horribly impatient when you didn't even look at the picture long enough to notice that it is animated =/

[–]RoosterBrains 10 points11 points ago

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Our kids are fucked

[–]DroolingIguana 43 points44 points ago

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They'd have to be, if we want grandkids.

[–]Footballvike81 37 points38 points ago

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I'm nervous! With my steady level of high income and the advances in modern medicine...

[–]Dominiking 25 points26 points ago

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You might be able live until you're to 245 to 300 years old.

[–]BetterDaysAhead 15 points16 points ago

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If footballvike does have the resources and science comes along to prolong our life to 300 years old then we're practically immortal at that point. I believe it is within no more than 2 generations in which we will have the ability to scan our consciousness and upload them to computers. Immortality and virtual reality are very much within our reach, moreso than reaching the stars.

[–]ab9003 6 points7 points ago

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My biggest concern is will it really be me in control, or just somebody else who believes they are me and has all my memories, like a clone.

[–]TheKingofLiars 3 points4 points ago

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It will more than likely not be you. Whenever I talk to people about these sort of ideas, they skirt the question or provide bizarre theories of how consciousness/experience can jump, or something. As in, create the clone, destroy the original, and voila! it's still the first you if we just do it fast enough...

From what I can gather, it will be a clone, and you will be dead, if destruction is the only option for the original.

But at the point, why duplicate yourself to attain immortality if you (the one who decided to duplicate) will never experience it? Sure the clone might be happy, but why not create an entirely new, immortal individual instead?

[–]sje46 2 points3 points ago

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Two generations?

So all I have to do is survive till my sixties?

[–]Scorp63 15 points16 points ago

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It was my understanding that when the Sun becomes a super Red Giant that Earth would not be consumed by it. I've heard that it's possible even Venus may survive, but it would be very, very close to the Sun. It had to do with the planets being kind of "pushed away" when it started expanding. No hope for Mercury, possibly Venus, but I always thought Earth would always survive.

Also, since the outer planets would drift off into Space, would their gas envelopes cease to be around them at that point when they "drifted off into space"? Would they just become their small inner planetary bodies of solid material, much like a satellite? It's hard to imagine an actual gas giant just chilling in the middle of nowhere without a solar system.

[–]liberalis 13 points14 points ago

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These gas giants exist today out in space and have been documented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf Think of Jupiter as tiny Brown Dwarf star. The answer though, is that the gravity of the planet itself is not derived from its proximity to the sun, but from its inherent mass.

[–]Lohengren 8 points9 points ago

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I just wish I could be here to see it.

[–]tkr2099 7 points8 points ago

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It will be fun to look back at this in 10 billion years and see how accurate it was.

[–]Experimenticenticide 7 points8 points ago

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250+ miliion years and Britian still doesn't want to be part of Europe.

[–]CookieJarvis 12 points13 points ago

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Past experiences made me mute the computer and back away from the screen. Now I feel like a paranoiac.

[–]NovaDeez 55 points56 points ago

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Sees a .gif post on imgur

Mutes computer

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[–]Whit3y 22 points23 points ago

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I hear they're working on a way to add sound to .gifs

[–]mi_nombre_es_ricardo 2 points3 points ago

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I hear they're working on another way to make me soil my pants since the big exorcist girl incident.

[–]SpacemanJim 5 points6 points ago

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[–]WiglyWorm 6 points7 points ago

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Hey if you're going to rip ancient content from YTMND fucking link to it

[–]vkob 2 points3 points ago

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Yeah man. Without the epic Total Recall theme this isn't half as good.

http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/

[–]Aceofspades25 13 points14 points ago

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I wish everybody would keep in mind that as human beings, we have a shared destiny. Surviving will require that we put away our small minded tribal instincts. Flourishing will require that we work ever closer towards democratic world government.

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[–]gbimmer 10 points11 points ago

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At first I was depressed.

Then impressed.

Then I had hope for humanity.

Then hope began to fade.

Now I'm depressed and all that's left are particles and a dead universe.

[–]Daman09 5 points6 points ago

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Fuck you, now I'm going to waste my whole day on this site, asshole.

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[–]eyesnight 3 points4 points ago

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Man, I thought I was going to get rickrolled. Dammit.

[–]da_bbq 3 points4 points ago

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It doesn't matter,

Because aliens.

[–]CreeperFeast 3 points4 points ago

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Not as epic without the Total Recall theme.

[–]fishbulbx 2 points3 points ago

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Sadly, the .gif image format out lives the human race.

[–]noshoesnoshirt 2 points3 points ago

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But I like the Mediterranean Sea...

[–]SparkitusRex 3 points4 points ago

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This image made me really really hope that reincarnation is true. I want to be there to experience each one of these events.

[–]Guard01 2 points3 points ago

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Pretty sure by the year 50,000 ... some of the human population will eventually move to another planet.

[–]Sir_Terrible 2 points3 points ago

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The font color tricked me into thinking it was safe to turn off my computer.

[–]idacalledyouwoodyjoe 2 points3 points ago

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i don't know about anyone else, but TIL that YTMND is still up and running. that brings me back...

[–]Sebulbasaur 2 points3 points ago

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Can someone explain to me how all galactic clusters disperse in 1023 billion years? If matter is conserved won't there always be new stars forming and dying?

[–]ihavekidneys 2 points3 points ago

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This is one of the reasons I despise death. I won't be able to witness any of this.

I want to see the human race travel outside of our solar system so fucking badly.

[–]empfindsamkeit 2 points3 points ago

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Presented by the YTMND education council.

Haha. I thought this was the first glimpse into our future, and I was frightened for a second. Turned out to be pretty poignant.

[–]elvisliveson 4 points5 points ago

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in conclusion, there is no god.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Solar systems are rarely harmed when galaxies collide. Stars are just so far apart that chances of collisions are nihil. The chances for large stars with bigger gravity wells are of course better but still pretty small compared to how often galaxies collide, that shit hits the fan all the time.