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Apr 20, 2025 9:12 PM
pt2016
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@eternity
dynamojoe
I wonder if the speed of the fly matters. imagine the fly "alighting" at about .9999999999999c. It'll still take a long time, but at least there's fireworks every once in a while.
MoonMoon89
That's some fly...
CrisprCAS
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Omnimorph2112
I like the idea that everyone has a different default measurement of time. To children, a few hours or days can feel like an eternity. To adults, years can go past in a blink. But in the cosmos... Millions of years are barely a blip. And if that doesn't make you feel unimaginably small, then you have quite an ego!
literallymike
but don't panic...
lewaq
To be fair, it is a long way to the chemist.
RobbieRodriguez
What if each planet is a cell, and we live in that cell. The universe a body. And judging by most people nowadays, we might be a cell right at the anus.
joechristo
when a sentenced is so mindbogglingly inane you can spend what seems like an eternity, wondering... why?
pt2016
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cjpoet
Where can I buy your weed?
Pulger
But "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" according to a Chinese proverb. Eternity starts with the first second.
RadioFloyd
I’m pretty sure eternity starts after the fly erases the ball.
Pulger
Eternity starts as soon as the cricket match commences. (“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. ” - George Bernard Shaw)
cousteau
But "A journey of a thousand miles begins when I wake up" according to The Proclaimers.
Hexrowe
But according to Zeno, before that first second can pass, the first half-a-second must pass. And before that first half-a-second can pass, the first quarter-second must pass. And before that first quarter-second can pass... well, you get the drift, it just keeps going on like that with shifting goalposts all the way down.
IUpvoteFuturama
"Every thousand years, this metal sphere, passes just a few yards from the earth, you climb on your roof and take a swipe at it with a single feather, hit it once every thousand years. Until you've worn it down to the size of a pea, yeah I'd say that's a long time, but it's only half a blink, in the place you're going to be...." Randy Describes Eternity - Built to Spill
CrankyCook