WARNING! THE FOLLOWING VIDEO HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO BE A HAZARD TO YOUR I.Q. BY THE U.S. SURGEON GENERAL. LONG TERM EXPOSURE TO STUPIDITY OF THIS MAGNITUDE CAN RESULT IN PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE AND A TENDENCY TO VOTE REPUBLICAN. FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU VIEW THIS VIDEO IN SMALL CHUNKS INTERSPERSED WITH SEVERAL LENGTHY BREAKS TO ALLOW YOUR SYNAPSES TIME TO RECOVER. PERHAPS YOU SHOULD KEEP A COPY OF CARL SAGAN’S DEMON HAUNTED WORLD OR SOME OTHER FORM OF INTELLECTUALLY UPLIFTING READING MATERIAL ON HAND TO HELP COUNTER THE STUNNING LACK OF INTELLIGENCE FOUND IN THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CLIP.
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The stupid! IT BURNS!
Found via God is for Suckers.
If you CAN accept the idea of ONE big bang, you are still going to have a problem organising a party for the day after the universe ends, or asking somebody what he did the week before the universe started. Finity of time throws up a whole mirror raft of questions to the questions that crop up when you assume infinity of the universe, or whatever the next step up is called that universes exist in.
Agreeing with Moloch. Time ends. Full stop.
Two Words: Planck Time. Space-time is supposed to have been compressed down so greatly that there is a point just before the Big Bang took place that time is effectively meaningless.
Since the Singularity event is the compression of all space-time into a single point (point in the sense of a one dimensional point), there is really no way to know what came before, or for us to really predict what will come after it.
We could in the far future observe the cycle heading toward a crunch, but right now the universe is expanding and I don’t think anyone has several hundred billion years to wait around and find out. The Crunch/Bang cycle is really hypothetical, and the heat-death of the universe is more likely given the observable facts about the current universe (not accounting for dark energy/dark matter here since it’s not been directly observed).
However, none of that detracts from the stupid of the dude in the video. He is like an infinite well of stupidity, from which infinite buckets full of stupid can be drawn. No matter how much stupid you draw out, the stupid table always replenishes the well and there is always a constant level of stupid there, just waiting for some hapless traveler to reach down and get a bucket full. The usual response is “What the fuck! this isn’t water, this is 100% pure stupid!” but sometimes they drink some first, then the effects kick in and the traveler thinks it’s good, clean water, and well, the ends of that event are not pretty (see the dude in the video above for an example).
Man, I think I need to get more sleep.
It’s turtles all the way down. ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
You learn something new every day. I thought that saying was from terry Pratchett!
Quick! Somebody make a stupid machine – then we can solve the global warming / energy crisis by burning stupid (as it is known to produce LOTS of hot air, there must be prodiguous amounts of power in there).