NOTE: may be inaccurate. Feel free to photoshop your variants.
Why is a bright future assumed?
Sun eventually goes supernova.
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.
Yeah but in the process it’ll scour the surface off the earth so it’s not all bad news
Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.
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.
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.
Try the steak.
Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.
Yeah that’s totally not a worse death.
Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star’s life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won’t be anyone around to notice.
Thermonuclear reactions are very bright
What’s weird to me is, the dark ages weren’t dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What’s in a name and all that.
Historians of the medieval era hate the term “dark ages”, even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.
Sorry what learning and expanding are you talking about? Can you please be specific about which years and give a source?
yall want a bright future but when people start actually fighting for one you show your colors as class betraying cowards
They want a bright future just for themselves. Not for the society as a whole
Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future
I’m worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die…
That’s why it’s called the bright future… Right?
Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.
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. :-|
It is very naive to think that the collective endgoal of humanity is to have super health when right now the only goal is which super power will dominate over the others, killing everyone who stands on their way
Not just right now - it was probably always that way. At one point those nations needed STEM e.g. engineers to win those (cultural) wars, while now we are gearing up to use robots and AI instead.
Even so, I think the loss of antibiotics is more of a short sighted side effect. It could need a century of development to overcome, but it is more profitable to sell pain relief right now so… it’s a problem for a future generation to have to deal with, so long as I get mine now, seems to be the way of thinking.
If the endgoal of humanity is for everyone to live happily and healthy why don’t they start right now by decommercializing the health sector? Why health research and provision are commercial?
Yeah, you’re mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.
Ok, added some bars to the left
Ah, much better. lol
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I mean that’s the brightest future right, them bombs give out all kinds of light.
Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.
You want me to say “Feel free to GIMP your variants”? =\
P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)
The word you are looking for is “make” or “edit”.
Kids these days… Have to rename everything! /s
Did you know that “to google something” is the proprietary version of “to search something”? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It’s time to stop!*
I envy you because I don’t know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don’t really need/use it, so yeah.
keep using ‘photoshop’ as a generic term and verb until it becomes ‘generic enough’ for adobe to lose its trademark. same with ‘google’ ftm.
Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s
Instead use edit/make/search.
*Look how they massacred my
boyEnglish!*
Richard, is that you?
Yes
Break the chains people!
yep, also a viable variant
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.
The day i realized this and that i wouldn’t live to see said bright future was rather disheartening
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If you want to be “accurate” middle age and now would be the same line (because the last millennia is about 0.33…% of homo sapien’s history) and bright future would be pretty fucking long because there’s at least a billion years ahead of us for life on Earth, probably more…
Oh I can see you don’t read news
Lol
Humans aren’t the only beings living on this planet and other life forms will thrive long past the point where homo sapiens disappear.