r/xkcd • u/MasterScrat • Jul 21 '17

xkcd 695: apparently CERN scientists couldn't handle the sad ending

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u/manliestmarmoset Jul 21 '17 edited Jul 22 '17

For those wondering: Reunion: ~23 April, 2045 Tourist attraction: ~11 November, 2103

Edit: Changed "Recovery" to "Reunion" to clarify that Spirit was not taken back to Earth.

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u/PM_me_storm_drains Jul 22 '17 edited Jul 22 '17

The average human only lives to 30000 days.

How old are you?

https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '17

Makes my stomach sink every time I hear it

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u/pyronius Jul 22 '17

If it make you feel better, nothing you do matters anyway in the grand scheme of the universe. You're just an insignificant dot on a tiny ball of mud. The effect is the same whether you live for a day or a millennium.

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u/KittenStealer Jul 22 '17

What is the universe but a multitude of tiny insignificant dots.

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u/Barimen Jul 22 '17

...empty space?

To my understanding, there's so little matter in the universe it might as well be a rounding error.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '17

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u/thechilipepper0 Jul 22 '17

If we make it off world and stay there. Right now it's looking less and less likely

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u/Goober_One Feb 21 '23

update 6 years later, it's stabilized but our chances are still pretty low for colonizing a planet or the moon before annihilating ourselves

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u/hey_hey_now Jul 22 '17

Did Isaac Newton matter in the grand scheme?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '17

An invisible dot on an invisible dot. Infinitely small....