This gives me existential dread
why? it was never going to matter to you. any of us here will be outliers if we even make it to orbit
94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
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Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#22This 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.
If you can handle being 'exiled' from the past permanently, what difference does it really make?
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#23If 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.
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that (nearly) 100% of the galaxy's solar systems except the one we're currently in are (likely) unreachable within your lifetime.
Though to be fair, I think the original title can't possibly know this, for instance if we live in a simulation, what's to say that some sort of algorithm (assuming we learn to meta-code our own existence) could put us in any galaxy we choose... Or warp drives, worm holes... light speed travel hardly seems worth the trouble, and unfeasable.. but if we can master warp drives, and bending space around us... then is there a limit on max speeds? If we can actually reprogram the universe would there be anything we couldn't do? have any other alien civilizations realized that at all?
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#24Since 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.
If we're in a simulation...couldn't we learn to reprogram/hack the sim, and just put our spaceships in another galaxy?
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#25Beyond OUR reach. I am sure extreme advanced civilization are capable of traveling 3-dimensional space without considering 4th dimension (time). Just like we can use video-recorder to record 3D world and put it on a 2D film to watch on a 2D screen, if advanced ET figured out ways to travel without consideration for time, then then switch from one point to another happens instantaneously. Whether its going from one room to another, or from one place in Universe to another, far far away. To them Einstein theories or articles like this one are just "thing of being a human-being".
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#26Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#27If 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.
Mmmh. Probably.
I'd throw an asterisk on this... technology advances in ways we don't expect, and the definition of "lifetime" might become very fuzzy very quickly.
(I don't think I'd put 50/50 odds on it... but I wouldn't put 1/99 odds on it either).
Re: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
#28This 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.
What if we're in a simulation, and algorithmically there's a way or method that will drop you in any coordinate at any time in the universe's timeline so that you can indeed explore space, and return home for dinner? I mean it'd require a TARDIS to exist probably lol, but in a sim, why not? Of course if we're in a sim, then that's probably not part of our overall 'goal' for creation, and likely we're the only creatures created so exploration really won't satisfy us, other than total galactic conquest, but then what?