Random musings

[wart57]

Why do I continue to type "www" before a web address?

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

The odds of you being born are 1 in 10^2,650,000 per this article. For reference and also per the article, there are 10^80 atoms in the known universe.

https://www.businessinsider.com/infogra ... ive-2012-6

I've actually done these calculations before and this is probably way, way, way too likely even as small as it is. For one, it only goes back 150K generations. That's just the beginning of humanity, presumably, about 3M years ago. You need to go back all the way to the beginning of life on earth some 4 billion years ago (or add another couple hundred million generations). Also, it doesn't account for earth even existing or life beginning....both of which are astronomically speaking very remote possibilities. Just saying.

Happy friday.

[Fat_Bulldog]

The odds of you being born are 1 in 10^2,650,000 per this article. For reference and also per the article, there are 10^80 atoms in the known universe.

https://www.businessinsider.com/infogra ... ive-2012-6

I've actually done these calculations before and this is probably way, way, way too likely even as small as it is. For one, it only goes back 150K generations. That's just the beginning of humanity, presumably, about 3M years ago. You need to go back all the way to the beginning of life on earth some 4 billion years ago (or add another couple hundred million generations). Also, it doesn't account for earth even existing or life beginning....both of which are astronomically speaking very remote possibilities. Just saying.

Happy friday.

Thanks man!

[Arthur Dent]

Happy friday.

On a related note, the Earth is already probably more than 80% of the way through the time range where it can sustain life.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Happy friday.

On a related note, the Earth is already probably more than 80% of the way through the time range where it can sustain life.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

In all seriousness, from what I remember, the sun is getting hotter and the oceans will dry up in a billion years or so and create a runaway greenhouse effect making the earth too hot be habitable. The sun will continue to get hotter and expand eventually absorbing planet earth. Timeframe for that collission is about 5-10 billion years. All that assuming something doesn't wipe us out first.

You think in 1 billion 100 million years or so when all the [expletive] starts to hit the fan, people will be sitting around reading GRB and be like, man, those guys missed it by a hundred million years and call us idiots. Probably.

[Arthur Dent]

Just left from my last day on the job I’ve had my entire adult life. Turns out, this generates a lot of feelings.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Just left from my last day on the job I’ve had my entire adult life. Turns out, this generates a lot of feelings.

Good luck, AD. I fought back tears turning in my resignation a couple years ago. No shame in that.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Cut up a jalapeno to put on my sandwich at lunch a couple hours ago. Just rubbed my eyes. That was a mistake.

[wart57]

Just left from my last day on the job I’ve had my entire adult life. Turns out, this generates a lot of feelings.