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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

[–] onyxjet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think I feel good about it.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn. I better get my shit in order

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why bother when there is so little time left?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, let's just call this one and start fresh with the next.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys got extra lives?!?!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, then I'm not paying my mortgage anymore.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not me, I was only able to get 10^33^ year amortization on mine.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, it only lets you go to year 2100.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

It'll probably be extended when we get 128 bit processors

[–] redsunrise@programming.dev 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

any chance we could move that to next week?

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Please don't, I haven't played all the video games yet.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You weren't going to do that anyway.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

You don't know that!

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Please. You have at least 10.1^78 hours unplayed in your Steam account.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I'm getting close to finishing Outer Wilds. Please hold off until I've completed that game. Also Half Life 3.

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm playing this too, and I'm not sure how close I am to finishing it. It feels like the progress gets slower the longer you play and I don't have any obvious options open anymore. I guess I have to visit some places again and see if I missed something.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Kinda in the same boat as you. Such a strange game. I'm loving it though.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 5 points 1 year ago

Next week is inconvenient for me as my existential dread has flared up again. Can we try tomorrow?

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

these estimates are going to change a billions of times and humans are probably not going to be there for the most of it.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

All of it, they’re human estimates.

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Oh no! I have concert tickets that day...

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Well, it sure feels like forever.

[–] NotNow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That's 10^90 years.

Aw shit, there goes my retirement plans

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Do you think you'd be able to save enough to retire by then?

idk, in this economy?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

fuck fuck shit fuck

[–] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Not fucking soon enough

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Hopefully we can find a younger universe to move to by then.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For comparison, if you had a deck of 52 playing cards and shuffled them into a random order, then checked a year later to see if they were in the same order as when you opened the box, reshuffled if they weren't, and repeated another year later, and so on...

We can use the cumulative distribution function of the geometric distribution 1 - (1 - p)^k^, where p is the per-trial probability and k is the number of trials, to find the chance that you'll find at least one correctly sorted deck from now until the time in this paper. There's a... Well, SageMath failed because of the exponent, but Wolfram Alpha tells me, uhhhhh...

Wolfram Alpha screenshot showing the CDF equation with parameters plugged in

Yeaaaaaaaaah, we're not going anywhere any time soon.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

THE END IS NIGH!!!

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get your affairs in order.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna first need to order some affairs.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

looks like we’ve got 10^78^ years to figure out time travel

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the last time we will say "It's Wednesday, my dudes!" and then finally be at peace.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Pack your bags.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... Recently we found evidence that spacetime curvature alone without the need for an event horizon leads to black hole evaporation (... this is pair generation !). ...

Great ! Now tell me : what's the implications of this on cosmological spacetime curvature ?

the quote is from :
original article:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14734
An upper limit to the lifetime of stellar remnants from gravitational pair production

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Universe is feeling that YOLO.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So much for my plans.