And sending a space ship at a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We’ve got some work to do climbing up the Kardashev scale before we’re anywhere close to that kind of travel.
Read this and thought it had something to do with the Kardashians.
When putting together an outfit always remove the last accessory you put on.
Are you trying to get my pants off?
99% of the universe is nothing. Wouldn’t that really be the dick move?
The universe is basically 100% empty. An atom is more than 99.9999999 empty space.
Say that again when a brick made of 99,9999999% empty space hits you!
(Mustn’t be a hard hit, maybe more like a soft touch. For science, you know.)
Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, is it really fair to say my client hit him, when the brick is essentially 100% empty space? And isn’t he also essentially 100% empty space so can he even be hit?
But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense! Why would a wookie, an 8 foot tall wookie, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two foot tall ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself, ‘what does that have to do with this case?’ Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case. It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending a major record company, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
wow. never thought of this in that way.
Yeah, I rounded down.
How much of a proton or electron is empty space?
99% of the universe is nothing.
Worst video game developer ever.
It’s actually just our solar system, the rest is just rendering tricks making us think there’s distance
Clearly it was made by Bethesda.
Broad as an ocean, deep as a puddle. Oh great, more rock.
A faster light speed wouldn’t make a difference, since she made the universe 96 billion light years wide.
Stupid relative distance measurements ruining all our fun
Something tells me this isn’t a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it’s probably going to be a very strange place.
Hey I hear there’s a nice restaurant out there
Good thing there isn’t one since we probably live in a donut.
I thought it was technically a three-dimensional donut shape progressing along a sort of 4D torus that we only exist on the “surface” of?
It’s actually turtles all the way down.
Ah shit 🤯
Torus*
That’s a common misconception. We actually live on the surface of a 3D bear claw progressing along a 4D cruller.
It does sort of feel like we’re in the butthole of universes, doesn’t it?
Indeed, but the way the math for expansion works is that there is something called a Hubble horizon and that makes it impossible to ever reach the edge, since it is moving away from us faster than light. (The limit doesn’t apply to the expansion of space-time).
Quite a nifty solution by the Supreme Programmer to avoid us hitting the limits of the simulation. I couldn’t have designed it better.
So… is Rick the top God or are there infinite simulations?
Just along the Central Finite Curve.
Well it was a more convincing solution than just having level crossing arms come down and an infinitely long train cross every time you get near the edge.
I couldn’t have designed it better.
Delta Force game programmers: Ghm, that was a trivial solution to the problem.
“Space. It seems to go on and on forever… But then you get to the end and then a giant gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.”
–Fry, “Futurama”
Imagine there being just no stars behind you. Just nothing. On one side you see the universe, like a wall of stars and lights, and next to that just pure nothingness. The void.
You could never get to the void because space-time has already accelerated the edge of all matter away from you faster than the speed of light.
Not “the void,” no, but “a void,” yes. As the universe continues to expand faster than the speed of light, the stars outside of our galaxy will slowly disappear from view. There will come a time when the night sky is just the milky way and darkness elsewhere. I don’t know if anything will still be around to observe it, though.
Or the quantum foam, or both, it’d be wild to be able to stare out into that sorta of black, in a metal way.
A bit off-topic but the voids in the universe (such as Bootes void) are scary af.
KBC Void is scary and cool.
And Earth is already stranger than some would like.
And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it’s that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.
Tell me all your thoughts on God 'cause I would really like to meet her
Disclaimer: To any higher power listening, I am not done living and do not want to meet God/a god immediately. There’s still plenty of candy left in this piñata.
blows raspberry
Willem
Defoeeee
You can’t do this to me. I started this company. You know how much I sacrificed?!
To be clear it’s lightspeed in space time, we “just” need to get rid of time to conquer the space.
Don’t forget the part where it’s constantly expanding. So it’s 96B ly so far.
And to add the cherry on top, should you ever reach his arbitrary speed limit, it distorts time itself. Even if you flew through space at c for a little weekend getaway, you’d return to a now foreign world only to find time had skipped forward +2,000 years, your entire family and social circles long dead from old age with societal and technical advancements beyond what you could have ever thought possible, completely isolating you. You’re now doomed to live in an unfamiliar world where not a single human speaks your language nor can they relate to you in any meaning way.
AKA, gods speeding ticket.
I have a solution for this: When you travel somewhere, travel with everyone’s mind at light speed. You see we think about lightspeed wrong. It’s meant for whole species to migrate. Not 1 individual.
Another alternative is just take a snapshop of everyone’s minds at that point, then let them continue living even with your snapshot. When you return you pick back off where you left off. Living in your own dimension. The other dimension is long gone but you miss nothing.
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Light speed is a “you must be this clever to participate” barrier to becoming an interstellar species, that’s all. Even if it’s not breakable, it just means you gotta be able to plan hundreds or thousands of years into the future.
I guess us Americans are out…
Just put a bunch of dna on an asteroid. Nature will figure the rest of it out.
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
It’s not “just” the speed of light though, light is limited by the speed of information, also known as the speed of causality. If you were to somehow exceed that, then your future light cone becomes very messed up, and effect starts to be possible before cause.
In other words, literal time travel
We can hardly plan 5 years into the future, let alone hundreds of thousands… It’d be pretty sad if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that everyone is too stupid to participate.
everyone is too stupid to participate
if they are anything like us, its probably for the best.
I don’t know, man, I kinda want to hear some of this Vogon poetry I’ve been hearing so much about.
meh. its only the third-worst in the Universe. you gotta go for the good stuff!
That was awful. Thank you.
Here for the comments to see if there’s a workaround.
Also the Universe: continues expanding
I see you around a lot and appreciate your contributions. When I don’t have a good response, I’m just going to comment, “Kolanaki!”
I mean, have you seen the human back, fuckin psychopath LMAO
Common trick map builders do, if you need to teleport the player for a scene e.g. they’re in a dream, but you dont want to load a whole new map you put the scene in the main map but someplace it cant be seen and is unreachable.
I love map breaking. It’s also fun to see what developers didn’t use.
The universe is actually expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light. There’s only a finite distance we’d technically be able to travel if we were to leave right now.
It can’t. Checkmate scientists.
When the game is open world but no fast travel or mounts.
There’s a bit of skipped step here. Just how do you get to the speed of light when it requires an infinite amount of fuel, with diminishing returns on the quantity of fuel you have?
Well we can’t assume we know physics completely yet (or within bounds of the question) something down the road may open an idea or ability to generate more power than we know what to do with. If this was a game we may only been on the first or second step of a technology tree. Or we just aren’t able to travel that far realistically, we have to overcome our idea of our species being singular and send out generation ships that go for ages (in human time) to explore more as a species, even if the originators (Earth humans) may never know the outcome.
Of course if we discover that much power we’d likely annihilate ourselves anyways, least with our current society.
I do mostly agree but I try and think of other possibilities since the universe is so vast.
