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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Just when I was gonna have as much money as bezos

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I think I feel good about it.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, then I'm not paying my mortgage anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not me, I was only able to get 10^33^ year amortization on mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope, it only lets you go to year 2100.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It'll probably be extended when we get 128 bit processors

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn. I better get my shit in order

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why bother when there is so little time left?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're right, let's just call this one and start fresh with the next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You guys got extra lives?!?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn, just two days from retirement…

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

any chance we could move that to next week?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Please don't, I haven't played all the video games yet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You weren't going to do that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

You don't know that!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Please. You have at least 10.1^78 hours unplayed in your Steam account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think I'm getting close to finishing Outer Wilds. Please hold off until I've completed that game. Also Half Life 3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm playing this too, and I'm not sure how close I am to finishing it. It feels like the progress gets slower the longer you play and I don't have any obvious options open anymore. I guess I have to visit some places again and see if I missed something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Kinda in the same boat as you. Such a strange game. I'm loving it though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Next week is inconvenient for me as my existential dread has flared up again. Can we try tomorrow?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

these estimates are going to change a billions of times and humans are probably not going to be there for the most of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

All of it, they’re human estimates.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Oh no! I have concert tickets that day...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Not fucking soon enough

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That's 10^90 years.

Aw shit, there goes my retirement plans

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Do you think you'd be able to save enough to retire by then?

idk, in this economy?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Well, it sure feels like forever.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

fuck fuck shit fuck

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Now I gotta rearrange my Google Calendar ..... again!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In all seriousness I wonder if GCal could schedule something this far in the future…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It requires 10^3 clicks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Hopefully we can find a younger universe to move to by then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For comparison, if you had a deck of 52 playing cards and shuffled them into a random order, then checked a year later to see if they were in the same order as when you opened the box, reshuffled if they weren't, and repeated another year later, and so on...

We can use the cumulative distribution function of the geometric distribution 1 - (1 - p)^k^, where p is the per-trial probability and k is the number of trials, to find the chance that you'll find at least one correctly sorted deck from now until the time in this paper. There's a... Well, SageMath failed because of the exponent, but Wolfram Alpha tells me, uhhhhh...

Wolfram Alpha screenshot showing the CDF equation with parameters plugged in

Yeaaaaaaaaah, we're not going anywhere any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Pack your bags.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

THE END IS NIGH!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

looks like we’ve got 10^78^ years to figure out time travel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's the last time we will say "It's Wednesday, my dudes!" and then finally be at peace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Get your affairs in order.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm gonna first need to order some affairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

... Recently we found evidence that spacetime curvature alone without the need for an event horizon leads to black hole evaporation (... this is pair generation !). ...

Great ! Now tell me : what's the implications of this on cosmological spacetime curvature ?

the quote is from :
original article:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14734
An upper limit to the lifetime of stellar remnants from gravitational pair production

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Universe is feeling that YOLO.