[akka47]

I always get a feeling of existential dread when I read these kind of news.

[yokem55]

Don't worry too much about it. In the end, everything will be nearly 0k.

[eloff]

I appreciate your optimism. I tend to be optimistic about the future myself. But there is no law of the universe that everything will work out ok. Only if we make the right decisions as a species and we don't get unlucky.

I'm quite apprehensive that the great filter lies ahead - that technology accelerates too rapidly compared to our wisdom and we end up nearly destroying ourselves. We're getting the ability to program life itself and to likely to democratize the ability to harness the forces inside the atom. Neither of which we're ready for as a species.

[dave_sid]

I don’t think this joke quite got the credit it deserves.

[mithr]

See also https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/

[p1mrx]

0K should be uppercase.

[ravenstine]

That is brilliant.

[unionpivo]

had to read that twice to get it :)

[iamgopal]

Level : Reddit

[xwdv]

The worry is that not only will we be utterly destroyed, but that the destruction will be so thorough it will blow backward through time erasing all events that ever happened and making it so that we never even lived. That means everything we experience right now didn’t happen, we are just seeing a probability of what could happen but didn’t because it’s all destroyed. These lives mean nothing.

[ASalazarMX]

"The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam" - Carl Sagan

And that pale blue dot means nothing in a cosmic scale. Stop worrying and enjoy the incredible fortune of being alive.

[kenjackson]

I must admit I feel that same dread. While I appreciate your intent, I'm not sure it helped.

[UncleOxidant]

Why? What exactly are you dreading? That our understanding of the universe and science involved might have some serious flaws? If so, won't we just adjust our understanding to something that matches the observations?

[oarabbus_]

I get pretty severe existential dread whenever I read something about this, or universe-scale cosmology in general.

[ferbass]

Don't worry it will be a problem for the future politicians and universe expand protections groups. "We have to stop the universe expansion, the universe is expanding faster than expected" they say.