NOTE: may be inaccurate. Feel free to photoshop your variants.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        72·
        1 year ago

        It doesn’t. It’s not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.

        • Donovar@lemmy.world
          19·
          1 year ago

          Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

          • Rolando@lemmy.world
            21·
            1 year ago

            I read in this book that there’s a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.

            • mister_flibble@lemm.ee
              7·
              1 year ago

              Shh!" said Ford. “It’s conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn’t matter. Sugar’s fine. And when it’s full, you pull the plug out… are you listening?” “I’m listening.” "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. “Clever.” “That’s not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector… backwards!” “Backwards?” “Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?” “And that’s how the Universe began is it?” said Arthur. “No,” said Ford, "but it’s a marvelous way to relax.

          • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star’s life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won’t be anyone around to notice.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      68·
      1 year ago

      Historians of the medieval era hate the term “dark ages”, even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

      • Speiser0@feddit.de
        13·
        1 year ago

        I once heard in some history tv show that it’s called “dark ages” not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.

      • tryptaminev@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        pretty much everything between ~600 and 1900 and pretty much everywhere from Morrocco to Turkey to Iran.

        Just read up on Moors, Ottomans, Iranians, Mail Empire, Islamic culture, science and arts…

        A lot of it in Palestine got destroyed by the savage European crusaders though.

  • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    234·
    1 year ago

    Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don’t forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).

    • Mr. w00t@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      261·
      1 year ago

      You want me to say “Feel free to GIMP your variants”? =\

      P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

      • Andrew@mander.xyz
        72·
        1 year ago

        The word you are looking for is “make” or “edit”.

        Kids these days… Have to rename everything! /s

        Did you know that “to google something” is the proprietary version of “to search something”? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It’s time to stop!*

        I envy you because I don’t know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don’t really need/use it, so yeah.

    • ares35@kbin.social
      211·
      1 year ago

      keep using ‘photoshop’ as a generic term and verb until it becomes ‘generic enough’ for adobe to lose its trademark. same with ‘google’ ftm.

      • Andrew@mander.xyz
        41·
        1 year ago

        Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s

        Instead use edit/make/search.

        *Look how they massacred my boy English!*

      • Andrew@mander.xyz
        21·
        1 year ago

        Enough is enough. It’s time to make this year the year of Linux. /s

        I mean, I mostly enjoy my FOSS (there are some issues). At least I don’t have to pay thousands of dollars or pirate it (and hiding it) only to find out that it’s Linux incompatible.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.

    • OpenStars@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as “antibiotics” again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

      Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too…

      It’s a good thing that people aren’t anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|

      • tryptaminev@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        Our existing antibiotics would be perfectly fine, if they were used responsibly instead of mass breeding resistant bacteria to mass breed animals under terrible conditions because capitalism.

        In the same wake climate change would be much easier to deal with if the economic system wasnt designed around infinite growth of production and consumption.

      • decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        It is very naive to think that the collective endgoal of humanity is to have super health when right now the only goal is which super power will dominate over the others, killing everyone who stands on their way

        • OpenStars@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not just right now - it was probably always that way. At one point those nations needed STEM e.g. engineers to win those (cultural) wars, while now we are gearing up to use robots and AI instead.

          Even so, I think the loss of antibiotics is more of a short sighted side effect. It could need a century of development to overcome, but it is more profitable to sell pain relief right now so… it’s a problem for a future generation to have to deal with, so long as I get mine now, seems to be the way of thinking.

          • decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 year ago

            If the endgoal of humanity is for everyone to live happily and healthy why don’t they start right now by decommercializing the health sector? Why health research and provision are commercial?

  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    We don’t have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.