oh man, thats where i keep all my stuff
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You own stuff? Lucky...
Don't worry, any stuff that doesn't fit into the universe probably doesn't matter.
There go my weekend plans
I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject, but if my calculations are correct, that's about a month from now! EVERYBODY PANIC!!
10 o'clock on the 7/8. That's in July! Unless you're non USA, then you're good until August.
Okay, thanks for the correction, my math was off a little bit, but absolute panic is still called for.
The rapture is upon us! Thank god, hopefully god takes all the evangelicals away so the rest of us can pick up the pieces.
Oh, no! I shall be Left Behind, and somehow have to carry on without all the religious freaks and their judgement, wars, self-righteous attitude, and ridiculous demands. Whatever shall I do?
I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject
How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.
I would call CS linguistics
I got out of taking any languages classes in college because Computer Science classes (of which I took exactly one, Pascal) satisfied the requirement. It's fucking rubbish to imagine learning a programming language is anything like learning a real human language. If there is any similarity at all, it's like learning Esperanto.
I would agree that using CS as a way to not take a foreign language is some utter bullshit. The reason I compare it to linguistics, not a language, is that most of coding seems to be figuring out the correct syntax to tell the machine what you actually want it to do. There's actually very little in the way of mathematics, or even arithmetic, in CS, so I find the widespread comparison to be less than helpful.
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Well, so much for my retirement.
Eh, you were never gonna retire anyway. Thanks trump.
Jesus fucking christ now I'm going to half to explain math and deep time to my mother and mother in law again.
"1d10, I just read that the universe is ending soon"
"I saw an article that said the universe is going to end in 10.78 years!" "10 to the power of 78, not 10 point 7 8..." "That's what I said! That's less than eleven years!"
10^78 years. 10.78 is known to be be almost 11 years, and a dumb way to express exponents even if it is done.
That's my mom. I've spent a lot of time lately explaining what click-bait articles are, and how they have very misleading headlines, and you can't just read the headline and think you know the story.
We live in Florida, and I just showed her a headline that said that Disney was closing down the Hollywood Studios location, but they worded the headline without a "the" or "a". - "Disney closes Hollywood Studios Location." It sounds like Hollywood Studios is closing, a major development if true.
But when you read the article, it isn't "the" Hollywood Studios location that was shut down, it was "a" Hollywood Studios location that was shut down, an old tribute to animation exhibit, which is due to be replaced with an updated one. So not the entire Hollywood Studios, as the headline implied, just a small section of it.
It wasn't even a new story, the old location has been closed for years, and this replacement exhibit was announced a long time ago. So they ran a headline implying that an entire Disney theme Park was closing down, when they were just updating an exhibit, like they do every single day.
She's always telling me about a major corporate chain that is closing, because she read a misleading headline about how they are closing 10 stores, without mentioning that they are also opening 100, so it sounds like the chain is out of business. Every time we pass a Cracker Barrel, she wonders out loud when they are finally going to close down after she read that click-bait headline 3 years ago. I'm tired of explaining that one, so I just say I don't know, I hate them, so I hope it's soon.
So the estimate went from:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
To:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
That is a big reduction. About as big as from that second number to how long your life is going to be.
immortals might have to make other plans, like going to another universe.
I’m guessing if you’re immortal, you already know how to do that.
Maybe they only just started being immortals.
the xeelee would like a word
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finally, some good news
And wouldn't you know, it falls on a Monday. Classic.
This is all fringe science. It's a new conjecture based on a controversial conjecture.
Hopefully someone who understands this better can provide a deeper explanation. I recall at high level why the original paper was not widely accepted.
The paper this is based on is not really hawking radiation because that requires an event horizon. They claimed gravity is enough which is extraordinary claim. Essentially redescribing something that can be more easily explained by other more widely accepted effects.
how does it affect my bank loan?
You and your lineage will save 10^1022 payments.
It depends on the loan. A regular loan will probably end, but a student loan isn't even dischargable by the heat death of the universe. It even said so in paragraph 32.3(A)(18)[c] of the loan documents.
Then what happens?
Jesus shows up and the 10^78 day adventists get to gloat.
If current politics have taught me anything, it's that we can just go to the universe next door and take their stuff.
Nothing. Forever.
Either that, or we find out that the oscillating universe theory was correct.
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Shit, just when we thought we'd found a time everyone was free for D&D.
Honestly, same
Thats a bad time for me. How about Tuesday?
I won't last more than 10^1.78 years from now, and the sun won't last more than 10^9.78 years. That still leaves an unfathomable number of years until we get to 10^78
Look at them getting my hopes up and then seeing the exponent. Sadface.
Impatient much? It seems like an eternity when you're young, then it's here before you know it.
Oh no... anyway
'End of the World' party at my place.
Spread it around.
They don't know.
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