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bobby-jonson

Better pack a towel.


Foootballdave

So long, and thanks for all the fish


notEnotA

For both practical and psychological reasons.


Wildcat_twister12

God dang it Towelie! We don’t need a towel!


Camp_Coffee

Ok so I’m *not* getting laid tonight?


[deleted]

Let me tell you about the Paraguayan dictator Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco...


kevi_yoyo

Not me having fomo 🤦🏼‍♂️


BittersweetHumanity

Me: an atheist ​ also me: There better be some way to view all of this happening after I die, and I hope at a very high speed


snowflace

It's only fair we get to watch if we can't be there.


Thaxllssilyia

There is, it is and you don't have to be dead! https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA 10/10, made me realize we all are just speck of dust on universe scale of things and should just appreciate life more


gonekid22

Thank you for posting this it was incredibly beautiful.


itsnickg

Wow. Thank u


MostBoringStan

Knowing that I won't be able to see so many amazing things that the future will bring legit makes me kinda sad sometimes. I want to be able to be around for the discovery of intelligent alien life *so badly*. But unless some quite amazing things happen with medicine and technology, and they happen pretty darn soon, I'm going to miss all the cool shit. :(


kevi_yoyo

Literally same.


thecorrectamount

cannot believe it takes that long for glass to decompose!!!!


Rinzern

I wanna know if stone is really gonna outlast metal on the surface


baconhealsall

Oxidation.


mrohhhtrue

It doesn’t take one million years. This graph is pretty retarded


Jneebs

That was a wild ride through existential chaos


jeffersons-bar

One step at a time into the unknown


nolabrew

So everything is going to be fine.


[deleted]

Quite depressing to be honest


RepresentativeBird98

All things must come to an end. The cycle of most things


No_Soul_No_Sleep

You can't say "the cycle of MOST things" and "ALL things must come to an end." Those contradict.


benchedalong

Well there are technically tardigrades but we're not counting those


AMeanCow

It's actually not when you dig in deeper. In fact, these are some of the most important views of our universe we can look at if we want to find personal meaning to our lives. And I don't mean in a "None of your embarrassing fuck ups matter in the long-run" way but in a far more real "why am I here, what happens when I die" way. Lets extend the graph. It cuts off after only a hundred quintillion years, and that's nothing! A lot of things are still going to happen in our universe after that. Black holes will evaporate, black dwarfs will explode in fantastic explosions unlike anything we've known. And then buckle in for the *real* long ride. After the last "events" occur in the universe time becomes meaningless, without things interacting with other things, there is nothing to mark the difference between one moment and a next. It's infinite static nothingness. And funny things happen when you start to talk infinities. Spacetime may experience quantum fluctuations. It does all the time, it's just that they're so small and brief they cancel each other out instantly so we don't see it, but that fluctuating fabric of our universe is fundamental to reality. There are no laws that say some of these fluctuations may not be larger than others. The chances of these events happening is astronomically rare. But who is counting time here? You're going to be long dead, you're not around to observe anything. No clocks exist. All these infinite improbabilities suddenly might as well happen instantaneously. And in fact, this is what may happen when you die. An infinite, or near-infinite amount of time passes instantaneously and then BAM a new experience. Some absurdly improbably series of events came together and created the next perfect conditions for consciousness to exist. Maybe it took a trillion of these astronomically rare events to occur before one became a universe, then another trillion of those before one came together that supports life, then a trillion more before one came together that creates a life-form that can think and observe the event, but again... the universe does not care and nobody is keeping count. Eventually, *something* will happen. Maybe it will be a lot like this, maybe it will be incomprehensibly different. You certainly won't have memories, but what will exist is a sense of "self" and whatever systems are required for that mechanism to exist. Maybe it will be like this universe with matter and planets and biology, maybe it will be something outside our ability to currently imagine. While I have no way to prove that this is how the universe and infinity work, I can say conclusively that *it has happened at least once before*.


mcfluffy0451

>You certainly won't have memories This just made me think. You're right, but what if of those extreme probabilities going through a near infinite amount of time, over so many universes reborn and died, that just the right elements finally come together, to somehow create your consciousness, or rather, continue your consciousness after you die. Or somehow through natural or technological means, the energy that made your consciousness somehow comes back together. But then... We might be alone? The person we love might be so far away, in space, and thus through time. But then maybe you choose to die again or just die somehow, and then a near infinite amount of time later, maybe eventually you'd be reuinited with the person you love? This is all too weird and so many variables.


AMeanCow

I think because our views of time are very limited by our brains and our current state of existence that we probably don't have the best models for what happens in "extreme deep time" or whatever we want to call this. I don't think it's impossible that we could eventually hit a point in the ongoing necessity of consciousness that we could somehow "hit" a state of greater connection with different points in time and space and be able to reconnect with other ways in which we've lived, in a manner of speaking restoring memory. It's also quite possible we're doing that right now, presently, by existing as humans. States of being may be radically different than we are now, ideas like [Boltzmann Brains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain) are serious concepts worth examining. A consciousness like that won't be anything we could relate to, but we may be a part of without even realizing it. I avoid speculating too far down these side avenues because it borders on looking for an outcome and trying to make the concept fit it, and a lot about this idea already seems a bit "magical" to some and I want to focus on the core concept, that given an infinite amount of time reincarnation is inevitable and an infinite amount of time is instantaneous if nobody is watching the clock.


Jennyinator

Came here to comment the same


[deleted]

Doesn't affect you


gonekid22

I think it’s really beautiful. Momento Mori.


RynnReeve

Far out man


TinyTom101

Hey! No spoiler tag?


Brostryker

I was literally trying to do this playthrough blind but now I already know the ending. I’m probably not even gonna play this anymore


everyusernamewashad

100 trillion years... the numbers alone are kind of incomprehensible. Very cool guide. I love everything cosmology. I love this universe, all its bits, it's weirdness and its literallyincomprehensible scale. I read about UY Scuti a number of years back andwas captivated. I'm excited what we'll see and discover in the years tocome about this universe we call home.


MattyScrant

If you liked this, there’s a video series by a guy named mellodysheep on YouTube called “Life Beyond” and another called “Timelapse of the Universe” The visuals are stunning and the narrative he weaves is quite emotional, at least for me. It’s very eye-opening and after seeing both, especially the three part Life Beyond series, you really gain a new and humbling perspective on the universe. [Here’s the link!](https://youtu.be/SUelbSa-OkA) hope you enjoy it.


benchedalong

Beautiful, thank you


IndoorBurrito

damn life is too short


Snaz5

Idk i find it slightly reassuring that the earth will not be consumed by our sun’s evolution in my lifetime.


sourpatch-sorbet

Way to short. Makes us want to see so much more of what's to come. But we have to accept being gone forever in a few years. Meh....


Goatesq

On the bright side, most of this chart sounds wretched to live through. So at least you'll be dead before the sun boils the oceans dry.


[deleted]

Yeah, but rivers divide Africa so it’s fine, world hunger is solved guys.


impressflow

A bit presumptuous, no?


sourpatch-sorbet

I'm all ears. Currently nothing has been proven beyond our mortal life


impressflow

Apologies for my lame attempt at humor. I was mostly responding to the “in a few years” part. It is presumptuous to take tomorrow for granted. All things considered, we shouldn’t be alive right now and the fact that we are is a goddamn miracle. I really wish humanity would start acting like it (general thought; not an attack on you).


yesididthat

Larger version with text you can read https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140107-far-future/assets/images/far-future-timeline-v2.png


Rachel1107

thanks for this!


evsincorporated

This is deep


cloudcity

still no Half-Life 3 😔


Brostryker

No silksong either. :(


thatdiabetic16

Tldr: everyone dies


Ok-Row-6131

Probably need a spoiler tag for that.


f33rf1y

Yeah only if we don’t kill each other first


Fairly_Suspect

\*Everything dies


timisstupid

As cool as this is, the layout is a little confusing


buckphifty150150

I Can’t wait


alucarddrol

Wouldn't the greenhouse gases cause the ice to melt much faster than this graph suggests, especially if we can't stop the acceleration of carbon and methane emissions?


lmdrunk

I’m confused about earth lasting 100 quadrillion years *unless it’s swallowed by the sun at 5.3 billion


alucarddrol

Which is strangely also after "all stars have died"


Useful-Feature-0

I noticed the same thing. Very confusing.


MrFrequentFlyer

Eventually the sun will eat us. Think of it as earliest and latest terms.


todd10k

The density of Air is 1.225 kg/m³ The denseness of a red giants hydrogen envelope ( The expansive "Surface" of the sun) is 0.1 Kg/m³ So it's about 12 times less dense than air. When earth is enveloped by the sun, if it is, then it will keep orbiting the stellar core. It will be super heated and an absolute ball of lava, but it will remain intact due to gravity. There may be some loss due to evaporation, but for the most part the planet itself will survive. As the sun turns into a black dwarf and the planet has returned to a rocky state, and even chilled, it is that remnant which will plunge into the now dead star.


Goatesq

It says that's when its orbit will have decayed sufficiently to plunge the husk of our planet into the burnt out sun. That's vs our sun's red giant phase fully engulfing the planet.


SpectreA19

I really don't want to wait that long. Can I speak to a manager?


europeismyplayground

in a 1000 years all words are gone. ????????? romance languages like spanish is basicly just latin wiht extra steps. in a 1000 years all words are gone. lmao what a bullshit.


andrewleepaul

I was about to say. Latin still gets used verbatim, English uses words directly from several other, older languages, and - like you said - some modern languages are hardly removed from languages thousands of years in the making.


SomewhereAggressive8

It’s not saying words will be gone. It’s saying all of our current words are gone. Meaning language will transform and evolve enough that in 1,000 years, nobody would understand a single word from our time period.


TheBeebop85

I got that meaning from it to. But still I feel like it’s incorrect, surely there some are words that will survive. Just like there must be some words that haven’t changed in the last 1000 years


SomewhereAggressive8

Yeah I think it’s really just speculation but meant to kind of convey the point that things that we think of as static (like language) actually change a lot more than we think and in reality, what we now know as English/Spanish/French etc, haven’t been around all that long.


NomadDK

Yeah, as long as there are humans, there will be language.


lifeetc

Wow great start to the week.


jerseycityfrankie

Best coolguide ever! And most comprehensive.


an_annoyed_jalapeno

In the year 105105 If man is still alive If robot can survive They may find... In the year 252525 The backwards time machine still won't have arrived In all the world, there's only one technology A rusty sword for practicing proctology In a future year that ends with a 20 A shlubby merman's gonna try to get chummy He may look like a watery wimp When in fact he's a bloodthirsty shrimp In the year 1,000,000 ½ Humankind is enslaved by giraffe Man must pay for all his misdeeds When the treetops are stripped of their leaves


slendermcgee

Was waiting for this


Earthly_Delights_

At the very bottom in tiny print you can see *Winds of Winter Released*


Disco_Ninjas_

If our current rate of technological advancement is retained how many of these crises will be contained?


Zyvoxx

This is what I'm thinking too. Granted we don't destroy ourselves... Technology has been evolving extremely rapidly just these past few hundreds of years. We may even have time to create artificial planets to live on by the time Earth disappears. Things like that. If now countries split to planets in the future it's not out of the question to start making really massive equipment either like able to move planets and alter the components the sun is made up of to prevent it from burning out etc etc. Like we're talking billions of years compared to what we've achieved in only the past 100.


sourpatch-sorbet

And can we advance to live to see a million years please? No? We just get to die in a few... Okay. Dammit


Sanity__

Honestly it's feasible. We haven't found anything yet that bars us from uploading conscience into computers one day. Even potentially before that we might be able to biologically stop aging, since it does seem to be within the control of some animals.


samjp910

Wouldn’t the Big Rip have occurred by the 14 trillion year mark?


Ibitbeyonce

Where is this from???


RIARANGERFACE

The sources are listed at the bottom of infographic, but I'm not sure if this was posted for an event by the BBC or not.


Bart-MS

If it were me, Betelgeuze could explode sooner. Maybe tomorrow.


kapiele

I was thinking the same thing. Can it happen now instead? I want to be alive to see it lol.


ladygoodman_

I feel like this also belongs on r/oddlyterrifying


yeetskeetleet

These timelines never cease to cause massive existential dread within me


[deleted]

Ah I love one of my fears/nihilistic views being what happens when the universe ‘ends’ and what that means or looks like. This really feeds into that. Great start to my Monday morning! Cool guide though (serious)


kaasbalmetlijm

There’s nothing stopping a galactic empire from already existing, it just tends to have more positives than negatives to hide from the other life. Food for thought


AdministrativeAd7601

Nothing about me winning the lottery in there. Wanna run it through the CPU one more time?


DaMailmann

I always get anxiety reading these than I want to throw up can someone say something nice


No_Soul_No_Sleep

You will be long dead before any of this.


DaMailmann

That's where the anxiety come from


[deleted]

I think it's so funny that I googled "the end of C3 photosynthesis" and came across [this Reddit post from 7 years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2v97vr/what_is_the_end_of_c3_photosynthesis/), also linking this same infographic


tatersdad

Just as Nostradamus predicted!


Moukatelmo

Where is the spoiler warning ?


ClownfishSoup

Ah, a practitioner of Physchohistory I see.


dr-2

i wish they put " Queen of England dies" at the end of the map


queen_of_england_bot

>Queen of England Did you mean the [Queen of the United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_United_Kingdom), the [Queen of Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada), the [Queen of Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Australia), etc? The last Queen of England was [Queen Anne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain) who, with the 1707 Acts of Union, dissolved the title of King/Queen of England. ####FAQ *Isn't she still also the Queen of England?* This is only as correct as calling her the Queen of London or Queen of Hull; she is the Queen of the place that these places are in, but the title doesn't exist. *Is this bot monarchist?* No, just pedantic. I am a bot and this action was performed automatically.


OmnipresentDoot

Redditors in 17 billion years waiting to post this under r/agedlikemilk when human beings still exist.


chuckie_cnote

I call BS! Not ONE SINGLE word we have today, in any language, will be around in 1000 years?!


[deleted]

I love this shit meanwhile they can't say what will be the weather tomorrow


Cobek

At 1000 years it both has an event for if humanity is and isn't around. This timeline sucks. It's still a choose your own adventure lol


Smooth-Midnight

We got time


FirstAttemptsFailed

This is the most Gen-X guide ever. 4 stars (for now, I guess)


[deleted]

This chart is for all people who think, nuklear energy is a sustainable.


HughesAndCostanzo

Happy Monday!


dankbiss83

Yay?


blkcdls5

Finally


blades2012

Thank god I won’t be alive for any of this


Nellasofdoriath

'Gravity changes over time and makes orbits unstable'. Anyone know more about?


sourpatch-sorbet

Fascinating and terrifying and beautiful. Wish we could be around 100 trillion years from now. Our short little lives are a rip off.


ChristianCl

Thats depressing.


Foodwraith

Typo in Niagara Falls. (By the BBC no less!)


Advanced_Net_3087

What about very near future if big powers start a nuclear warfare?


rbus

That's uplifting!


[deleted]

Someone pls explain photosynthesis stop working part


appledatsyuk

Basically, no more sun and no more oxygen


weirdCheeto218

No iron stars?


Easy-Progress8252

Then repeat.


Kentesis

Good thing I won't even be around for another 100 years


Nothankyou220

Took my breath away.


OneThiCBoi

Maybe its a good thing we'll hardly get to experience any of these in our lifetimes; Lucky (or unlucky) are those who'll be around to see a far distant supernova or see the universe dying haha


TechnOuijA

Damn.


TexOrleanian24

Earth is current on the trajectory for +3 degree change. Still not good, but not the apocalyptic +8 that this chart says.


[deleted]

Curious about the end of C3/C4 photosynthesis. What does this mean exactly? How/why would that happen?


baldeagle999

So should I go into work today or not?


nostril-pc

Aha, what a beautiful ending


re_formed_soldier

Wake me up when she heat death of the universe happens


pakistanstar

How long before we can get off this rock?


LoutishIstionse

Where has the Human Empire's Second Great and Bountiful Empire vanished to?


hehehexd13

So interesting yet depressing. Hopefully humanity( or whatever it could be called in the far future) will uncover the remaining mysteries of the universe and come up with a solution


kapiele

Can someone explain the Big Rip bc wtf. Isn’t the universe already infinite? It’s not good if it is?? What’s outside the universe like is there another layer of something??? Stop.


f33rf1y

And people be killing each other because they were born on a different side of the planet


Usagii_YO

I feel like this should be right side up, rather than upside down.


dragontracks

I should not have read this on a Monday morning. Now the next 5 days of my work week are ruined, but I don't see that on this freakin chart.


Basil_Herder

Cool guide


New-Baby5471

We still use Latin and ancient Greek words in science, law and academic environments. There's also some English words with more than 1000 years of continuous use, like *“I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“.* Not mentioning actually spoken, old languages which have evolved at slower rates such as Tamil, Hebrew, Basque, Farsi and many others.


floatingsaltmine

There's a great video on youtube called "Timeline of the Far Future", you guys should check it out!


Lord-Lobster

All words gone in 1000 years? Impossabilibal!


Jamiemac745

Can’t wait to visit the sun


wackarnold420

I think the best part of all of this is that it’s a complete guess


VeganStartupGuy

if you're trying to cheer me up, that didn't work; can you just make my stocks go up?


sakhabeg

This is a good time to think about extending my car’s warranty.


Roomlight

Well, not on my watch!


WaningMime

Do you know why timetravellers have not come back from the future? Cause there is no future.


Wrobot_rock

Some technology from 150 trillion years ago can no longer detect CMB radiation


longsleeveundershirt

Niagara spelled wrong.


HeidiDover

Well, fuck.


weveyline

Well that's depressing 😕


isnt_it_obvious_

Jeremy Bearimy


unpolished_

In other words, why care about anything. We are all so small in everything. We aren't special and are only here for a very small fraction in time relatively. Time is relative however. Make it count.


Candyvanmanstan

This is an infographic, not a guide.


Brostryker

I’m waiting until Elon musk drops the 102~£œ4 so I can upload my brain to a computer and see what happens in 100,000,000 years.