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How long do you expect the coal fire to last?
Can it outlive the earth?
Quote from: alancalverd on 03/08/2023 12:05:34Sex, beer, flying, cricket. Or, in a word, Saturday.Modern lifestyle has become so complex that we tend to forget the fundamentals which shape our priorities.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 05/08/2023 10:28:21Quote from: alancalverd on 03/08/2023 12:05:34Sex, beer, flying, cricket. Or, in a word, Saturday.Modern lifestyle has become so complex that we tend to forget the fundamentals which shape our priorities.Not sure what you are getting at here! Sex is not modern, nor is beer, and classic Test cricket is a lot more enjoyable than its modern derivatives (it's the difference between chess and draughts). I sometimes fly gliders, which are very simple (though the modern plastic ones admittedly fly better than the the old wooden machines) and actually more pleasurable that the spam can with an engine.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 04/08/2023 07:23:59How long do you expect the coal fire to last? Until the coal runs out. A few hundred years, if the mine is big enough and there is an adequate oxygen supply. QuoteCan it outlive the earth? Obviously not - the coal layer is quite thin compared with the earth's crust.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 04/08/2023 07:25:11You won't feel pain nor boredom after you die.How do you know? Almost the whole of religion depends on your statement being untrue. You are attacking the basis of the world's biggest and most evil industry!
You won't feel pain nor boredom after you die.
Recreational sex is quite recent in geological time scale.
The most evolved species
One measure of evolution would be the efficiency with which genes are passed on. Humans (indeed most mammals) are inefficient as the males weigh more and eat more than the females, whereas spiders, bees, etc manage to fertilise their ova with minimal redundant mass.
Or you could measure collaborativeness. Some fish, birds and insects tend to form shoals for hunting or protection, and don't attack their own species. Humans invent bizarre reasons to kill other humans.
Why would that be a Good Thing? All we do is increase entropy.
(a) the "universal goal" doesn't seem to be in any way universal - it's entirely your own ambition with no logical foundation and
(b) overall, entropy always increases
so the goal imposed on the universe by its own behavior is heat death, and nothing else.
Not really. It can stay the same. Look again at your formula closer.
Is heat death actively pursued by something?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 09/08/2023 12:48:27Is heat death actively pursued by something?It is an inevitable consequence of thermodynamics. No need for active pursuit, though any voluntary action you undertake could be construed as pursuit. Given that it will happen, is the last thing that will ever happen, and is pursued by everything in the universe, it is the universal goal.