(November 7, 2010 at 12:53 pm)Tiberius Wrote: There wasn't anything to refute though. He accepts that the universe will only support life for another 30 billion years. The point of his "are you fucking kidding me?" was to argue that 30 billion years is a ridiculous amount of time, and that people shouldn't be depressed about it, since it won't affect them. 30 billion years is more than twice the time the universe has even been around, so yeah, in response to people who think it is sad that it won't support life for more than that...are you fucking kidding me?!?
But we are most likely going to live long enough to be part of the singularity when man merges with machines and will live on forever as some cybernetic hybrid like the Skaled race from Dr. Who. When you are a literal brain in a jar encased in a metal chasis, and have the potential to exist forever then you might find 30 billion years to be very limiting Mr. Hayter!
