99% of the universe is nothing. Wouldn't that really be the dick move?
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The universe is basically 100% empty. An atom is more than 99.9999999 empty space.
wow. never thought of this in that way.
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.
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Broad as an ocean, deep as a puddle. Oh great, more rock.
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?
When putting together an outfit always remove the last accessory you put on.
Are you trying to get my pants off?
Its probably for the best.
If humans are able to get to another planet with life on it we would probably do horrific unspeakable things to the aliens.
I feel like I would treat my Togruta wife very well ;-;
Real talk tho, humans will eventually reach the stars, being negative/nihilist about it and saying it's better if it doesn't happen is dangerous because people like Elon/Donald will definitely do horrible things if people with remorse and morals aren't involved/ already established there / the one's initiating
Not saying you're nihilist, but I go to Uni in SF and everyone is so anti-imperialism that they think any form of colonization (even on a dead planet like Mars) is bad and it's pretty grating.
Elon should not be the one who decides how the land/living conditions are set up
The fact is that any manned vehicle capable of interplanetary travel is by the nature of the energies involved, also a weapon of mass destruction. A spaceship is a weapon in the same way a car can be a weapon.
So either you massively restrict access to this technology, or you create a system of surveillance and defense that is so pervasive and effective that it makes 1984 look benign, OR you just say fuck everyone else and use that weapon to remove yourself from range of everybody else's weapons.
Proliferation is an existential problem for anyone in range.
The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.
It doesn't really matter what kind of engine it is if it's going fast enough.
Anything with enough mass and acceleration to move a human being from planet to planet in a reasonable timeframe has the kinetic energy required to wipe out a city. Once you start reaching relativistic speeds, you can take out entire planets by simply not slowing down on approach.
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Let's say we reset everything today, wipe out everyone's memory. God will be forgotten, science will still exist. People will figure out science sooner or later.
If I'm being honest, I think people will figure out god too. All it is is a question.
"Did someone do all this?"
It's a reasonable question. Easy to ask, hard to answer. Attempt to identify this variable "someone", and people will eventually land on some kind of god.
Yes, but the point is that every time god is "rediscovered", the form of that god changes as does the scripture surrounding that new religion.
Science, for the most part, wouldn't diverge from our current understanding of it, because it is ultimately our understanding of the world and its fuctions.
Different form, same essential content.
I mean you can answer that today lmao.
Exactly my point! I was a staunch atheist in childhood, mostly out of rebellion against Christianity. I'm something else now because I asked the question in sincerity. I'm still definitely not a Christian, mind you. But man, the void is cool to ponder about.
In a similar boat, I guess I would be considered a pantheist by definition.
Staunch atheist growing up, asked myself a similar question. My religious views don't necessarily change my view of how the world comes to be, or promises anything like eternal salvation; just an acknowledgement that all of this comes from something and by definition you could consider that something to be god.
Any extrapolations ontop of that would have to be considered faith or conjecture.
In fact I think most people would find it somewhat depressing to come to a similar conclusion initially, but the questions that come from this pondering have really helped me find a harmony with the universe and I'm appreciative of that
Hey, welcome to the club! Pantheism has helped me find some deceptively obvious truths in life. "As above, so below" being a big one. Meshes remarkably well with science, and if anything it rekindled my enjoyment of science and reality in general. It's the healthiest relationship I've ever had with "religion".
God will always exist before science, it is necessary to rationalize existence to have any hope of living long enough to develop science.
If there's no meaning to what you're doing, there's no point in dealing with suffering. Only through extreme alienation from suffering can you start to have a non divine world view.
Science laws won't cease to exist, but if you wipe out everyone's memory, their knowledge of that science will cease to exist - so they'll have to figure it out from zero - and there's no guarantee that there won't be another placeholder in a sense (i.e. what religions have been historically) for what's yet to understand.
I think the intent is more “Scientific discoveries could be rediscovered, your One True Religion wouldn’t be.”