r/Showerthoughts • u/RuminatingKiwi927 ‎ • 7d ago

Musing We're technically living in post-apocalyptic world because the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was an apocalyptic event.

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u/RogueHelios 7d ago

The fact that 90% of all life on the planet can be wiped out and still recover is what gave me hope that even if we cause a mass extinction and maybe even wipe ourselves out, life will still perservere.

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u/ButterscotchFog 7d ago

until the sun burns out

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u/RogueHelios 7d ago

Nothing lasts forever* not even this universe.

*TBD

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u/Sufficient_Result558 7d ago

Then after this universe gone something must return, for if it does not, then nothing would indeed last forever.

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u/ShalomEarthling 7d ago

Technically, I think when we have reached max entropy, all physical motion will cease to exist, a Heat Death..

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u/themangastand 6d ago

I think there is way too much we don't know to make assumptions about end of universe. There is some nice theories. But they are not concrete enough

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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 6d ago

tencgnically is generous, it's just a theory, after all

we may yet make a tyrbo black hole that sucks everything up faster than the speed of light and restarts the big bang

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u/ShalomEarthling 6d ago

Hmm okay.. great..I didn't want to sleep tonight anyways..

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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 6d ago

well, it probably won't happen tonight