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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is a bright future assumed?

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 94 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sun eventually goes supernova.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It doesn't. It's not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago

Yeah but in the process it'll scour the surface off the earth so it's not all bad news

[–] Donovar@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I read in this book that there's a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.

[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out... are you listening?" "I'm listening." "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. "Clever." "That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector... backwards!" "Backwards?" "Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?" "And that's how the Universe began is it?" said Arthur. "No," said Ford, "but it's a marvelous way to relax.

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t like food that talks to me before I eat it.

[–] fluke@snake.substantialplumbing.repair 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] fluke@snake.substantialplumbing.repair 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not bright at all. That's the darkest thing.

[–] Donovar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago

Thermonuclear reactions are very bright

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's weird to me is, the dark ages weren't dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What's in a name and all that.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Historians of the medieval era hate the term "dark ages", even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

[–] Speiser0@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago

I once heard in some history tv show that it's called "dark ages" not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.

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[–] ToastyMedic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only a little unfortunate they skipped the enlightenment, akin to what Europe had.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They didn't skip it, the enlightenment was a continuation of what they came up with. I'm pretty sure they didn't deny the earth is round and the sun is the center of our galaxy.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Medieval people thinking the Earth was flat is a myth that was made up during the Age of Enlightenment.

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[–] ToastyMedic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not what it was, not by a long shot, but alright.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now you've got me curious, what do you think they didn't continue? The art wasn't the same, is that it? We should be very thankful they saved a lot of knowledge that could have been lost.

[–] ToastyMedic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What the hell are you talking about? I'm talking about enlightenment, you know, the explosion of philosophy in the 17th century?such as the explosion of liberalism, ideas of socialism, The theories of government, American and french revolution, ect.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So science wasn't part of it?

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future

[–] TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die....

[–] DeadOfMind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

That's why it's called the bright future.. Right?

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.

[–] w00t@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, added some bars to the left

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Ah, much better. lol

[–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.

[–] w00t@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You want me to say "Feel free to GIMP your variants"? =\

P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

[–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The word you are looking for is "make" or "edit".

Kids these days... Have to rename everything! /s

Did you know that "to google something" is the proprietary version of "to search something"? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It's time to stop!*

I envy you because I don't know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don't really need/use it, so yeah.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

#ABSOLUTELY PROPRIETARY

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shhhhh it’s okay to let people enjoy things

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Break the chains people!

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We don't have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.

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