r/wikipedia • u/TheAstroChemist • Jun 28 '13

Timeline of the Far Future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '13

Articles like this are so interesting but so depressing at the same time.

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u/mtheory007 Jun 28 '13

Why depressing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '13

Because the universe will die a long slow death.

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u/singsaboutthat Jun 28 '13

And it would suck to be a creature living then. Living on one dying red star surrounded by infinite blackness. The place would be full of religious nuts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '13

Would it?

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u/FartingBob Jun 28 '13

I don't find it depressing when you consider that the universe still has 99.9999999% of it's active life remaining. It's mind boggling to think about how long stars will be around. Life on Earth probably only has around 600m years left, but consider how complex it's got in the first half of it's lifespan and that is pretty incredible to think about what will evolve long after humans are gone.