To worry that once the sun explodes there will be

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no intelligent life in the universe. Just vast space. It makes me sad: the slow evolution of man over billions of years; the art; the culture; to go from living in caves to flying to the moon in a blink of an eye.

@cakeorwine (at 22.24,) that video of the universe is absolutely brilliant! 👏

“Pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space because there’s bugger all down here on earth…”

Monty Python
Meaning Of Life

😆 Glad it's not just me! Thought it was because I'm tired!

@cakeorwine nice. Shame all those people so clever to know all that are using their cleverness to reduce us to our algorithms and then sell us back to ourselves forever.

It's a good film though.

I like this one too

I still don't get it.

'What's the opposite of Stephen Hawking? Stephen Walking.'

Is that the joke?

Nah, it's just a rubbish joke. Everyone says so.

I thought when I scrolled down to the rest of your post you'd say, "Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it."

And it is - ultimately pointless.

TBH, humans being wiped off the universe isn't such a bad thing. We are not a good species. I do feel sad thinking about all the beautiful flora and fauna of earth that will eventually be obliterated by the sun's red giant death stage (if us humans don't get there first).

Every speck of light in this picture is a galaxy.

Our galaxy is a speck of dust, and our solar system is a tiny bit on the edge of that speck of dust.

We don't matter, at all.

TBH, humans being wiped off the universe isn't such a bad thing.

Spare us from the misanthropic anti-humanistic claptrap. Planet earth has always been a volatile environment with peaks and troughs of hostility for the various organisms that inhabit it. It has a volcanic core fgs. It's not as though there was ever some kind of pre-lapsarian paradise where all was peace and harmony and to which "nature" will return when those nasty humans disappear. This is Emo Disney thinking.

Oh that humankind should last that long (we wont). The great tragedy is that we're not intelligent enough not to wipe ourselves out.

Seems to be.

And it's shit and makes no sense.
I'll try:
"What's the opposite of Stephen Fry?"
"Stephen Freeze"

"What's the Opposite of John Candy?"
"John Fruit Bowl"

...

Yeah they suck too

Everyone hates that so-called "joke".

Gosh. yes that is sad.

There may be many universes though.

It’s baffling to think that we are so tiny and insignificant and so much is beyond our understanding or wildest imaginings.

And yet, we may also be the most amazing and beautiful creations ever to have existed.

I agree.

If that is the joke ('what is the opposite of Stephen Hawking? Stephen Walking.') then that's not really funny IMO. Not saying I'm offended, I just don't find it funny.

JMO.

‘Berkeley had an answer for you…

There once was a man who said "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."

Dear Sir,
Your astonishment's odd.
I am always about in the Quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by
Yours faithfully,
God

I've got one!

What's the opposite of OneLoftyFish?
OneVerySmallFish.

Which is also shit.

I am so much more saddened by the way in which humanity is rapidly changing ( in my view). We are becoming more and more absorbed by this alternate reality online that I believe it's actually changing us and our evolutionary trajectory for the worse.

😆 Yeah it is!

Q E freaking D

Shouldn't have read this thread before bed, now I'm laying here questioning my existence. Why are we here? Isn't it weird that we exist? Why do we exist? What's the purpose? What are we doing this for? What's the point in going to work tomorrow?

I like your last line!

There is never any point in going to work tomorrow. Age 15 I was walking to school and I thought : I have walked this journey there and back every day for four years. Two miles each way. If I had just walked the same distance in a line every day instead of going back and forwards I would be somewhere completely different by now. I would be in the Atlantic Ocean.

This thread 😂

How are people still not getting the joke (which raised a mild chuckle)?

Stephen Hawking could not walk. That's why, by a certain logic, a Stephen who could walk would be the opposite of Steven Hawking...and Hawking/Walking is just a silly pun.

The above examples don't work, you are just coming up with the "opposite" of the person's surname.

It's a bit like the old (slightly wittier, albeit similarly ableist) joke - What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve? Christopher Walken.

Though I expect the sun will have consumed us all before certain PPs get that one.

Yes, I was going to suggest the OP reads A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where Earth gets destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass.