No one needs more than 640k galaxies.
In case somebody doesn't get the joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120477
94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
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#12Kurzgesagt has a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#13Since we can't ever reach most of the universe, that means we'll probably have to simulate it to ever explore it.
Which means we're probably being simulated right now. Hm. Let's hope they left `sv_cheats` available.
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#14* provided that we can't overcome speed of light limit
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#15thank god
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#16Like backgrounds in a video game - always visible, never reachable.
Perhaps the remaining % are also unreachable and we're just falling for the illusion :D
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#17This gives me existential dread
Just to add to it:
If you decided to travel to the furthest galaxies you could reach, at some point even they will move beyond the reach of Earth as space expands. To colonize them means to exile yourself from Earth permanently.
Traveling through an infinitely expanding universe is like traveling into a permanent headwind in every direction.
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#18It's mind blowing to imagine that the observable universe is bigger than 90 billion light years, space-time expanding at multiple times the speed of light.
If expansion keeps accelerating, then at some point gravity won't be able to keep the local cluster together and even those galaxies will drift away, then star systems, then planets, then matter itself will be torn apart until atoms and particles and quarks are destroyed. A dark future awaits indeed.
Something in my mind tells me that there must be more to it, the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist surely would not allow it all to be destroyed forever in the end...
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#19If this fact makes you uneasy just know that 100% of the universe's galaxies, except the one we are currently in, are already unreachable within your lifetime.
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#20This gives me existential dread
Why?