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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

[–] onyxjet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I think I feel good about it.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn. I better get my shit in order

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why bother when there is so little time left?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You guys got extra lives?!?!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, it only lets you go to year 2100.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, just two days from retirement…

[–] redsunrise@programming.dev 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

any chance we could move that to next week?

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You weren't going to do that anyway.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

You don't know that!

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month 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.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

All of it, they’re human estimates.

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Well, it sure feels like forever.

[–] NotNow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 1 month 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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

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

idk, in this economy?

[–] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Not fucking soon enough

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

fuck fuck shit fuck

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

It requires 10^3 clicks

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Just when I was gonna have as much money as bezos

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

THE END IS NIGH!!!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Pack your bags.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get your affairs in order.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna first need to order some affairs.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Universe is feeling that YOLO.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

So much for my plans.