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Apr 2, 2016 3:42 PM
justahumanonline
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YogSoth0th
My favorite short story ever written. In a comic. I cannot express in words how happy I am.
Boredashell
Hello darkness my old friend...
HiImJoe
Just amazing.
khazaria
Much better without the drawings.
MundoMundo
Amazing read thanks. +1
soturi88
I saw this a while ago and was waiting for it to resurface wo u could favourite it. +1 and favouritedit
Lojay
This made my mind brain get boo boos.
axiomatik
Tl;dr way too long to read on the toilet. Legs are just gangrenous stumps.
fatlittletree
God creates universe, universe creates man, man creates god, universe destroys itself, God creates universe, universe creates man... 1/2
fatlittletree
man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth. 2/2
itsaiden
This shit was so deep my phone literally crashed twice trying to comprehend it.
Iwasoutedbyatroll
TL;DR The Bible had the answer all along.
zedavatar
They're drinking in the raised floor server environment??? I've seen people fired for less than that.
LatchHookRug
He wrote it in 1956. Those were simpler, OSHA-less times. Fun fact: OSHA was founded under Nixon in 1971.
wouldntyouliketobeapeppertoo
I read it all. I'm going back to bed.
MedicMoth
My brain can't handle this many metaphors when paired with all of these universal concepts
WhyWasentThisTakenYet
WHAT YEAR IS IT!
theakbars
Never fails to give me the feels.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
You'd think the question was asked in 1955-6 when Asimov wrote this. But you can't expect a super computer that know everything to know that
godofhorizons
Anyone know a good book of Isaac Asimov stories?
DukeFlipside
Any of his collections! The first one that came to mind though is "Buy Jupiter" :) For longer space opera his Foundation series is a must!
DukeFlipside
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Jupiter_and_Other_Stories?wprov=sfla1
SenatorHillaryIAmStillInTheRaceClinton
I own almost 300 of 469 things that Isaac Asimov published. He's a God to me.
SenatorHillaryIAmStillInTheRaceClinton
I literally have an Asimov bookshelf
OhDavidMyNacho
Have you read the autobiographies?
SenatorHillaryIAmStillInTheRaceClinton
I've only read the first one, but I own both. I have a lot of books an unfortunately not enough time.
OhDavidMyNacho
They are so great though. I've always enjoyed his simplistic but not dumbed down style of writing.
SenatorHillaryIAmStillInTheRaceClinton
The builds magnificent settings too.
w0ntoan
Are you saying the universe reposted itself, just like this post?
DukeFlipside
When all that is left of the universe is the cosmic equivalent of the internet, what else do you expect is going to happen?
Zanano
To be fair, we don't really know if entropy IS the end. And at this point, something bigger than the Universe itself could be discovered.
Flyndaran
That as absurd as saying god or a wizard did it. Cross your fingers and scream, "Nuh uh!" all you want but there's no reason to think so.
Somanyquestions
That last image burns my eyes so much, why?
qPRdxH4UXm36HS9rJgLA
Here is Leonard Nimoy narrating it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqjSP7kOO4
emmamodern
Save for later no jutsu!
themaskedhobo
You sir are a scholar and a gentleman
HeavyMetalMonk
Old comment but thanks for this! Listening with the kids now.
truckerallikat
I regret that I have but one upvote to give you for this.
fouaurore
Kool
GilgameshWulfenbach
Z
piedpiper89
Nimoy reading Asimov
metalman125
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SirKaldar
. of remembering!
Emrecof
Why does this always make me worried about Entropy even though I know I won't live long enough for it to matter?
Flyndaran
The fact that existence itself and all life within it will die is upsetting. Why wouldn't it be?
villlllle
Well, entropy matters and has mattered for a long time, but not in the sense of ultimate destruction of all the matter.
o11c
Personally, my biggest worry is the imminent collision with Andromeda. If we can get past that, I'll let someone else worry about the rest.
fred28056
Pretty sure that probability of a solar system colliding with another much ours specifically is too small to matter when it actually happens
o11c
Actual collision, no. Gravitational interactions, hell yeah. Possibly the only chance to escape the galaxy, possibly alien implications, ...
Varimothras
Even if we collide, I think there's a lot of space for us to not actually hit anything
BubbleGutandtheHotSnakes
Depending on your current age... i can't completely rule out that you wont live long enough for it to matter.
DalekKal
The Singularity is coming.
elephantocetomachia
How may entropy be reversed? ／人 ◕‿‿ ◕人＼ That's easy.
ChainsawHandsJoe
no fuk u
ProphetTenebrae
The kettle boils. The kettle cools. This is the nature of the universe.
Callemannz
But the kettle will boil again, and cool again, by your hand. Will the universe boil again? And by whose hand?
ProphetTenebrae
Steve's.
Zanano
But where did the kettle come from?
EvilLesbian
AC, didn't you read?
AlmostScientist
egg
AnotherSarah
Walmart
plotruniumnyborgh
There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
YamatoIouko
And the energy to make it boil.
GassyWizard
So just to make sure I understand, is there no way to stop entropy, and the best course of action would be to start over again?
illegalacorn
There is as yet insufficient data to answer.
helpidontknowmyname
I think current theory is that the Universe expands for a time, then slows and begins to contract, eventually reaching pinpoint volume 1/2
helpidontknowmyname
with infinite mass and BOOM another Big Bang. So, yeah, there is a built in cycle. 2/2
lordforte
How to do so exactly isn't clear. The implication is that AC essentially reboots existence with its own recordings - an infinite loop.
Mozbone
the end is almost poetic. sci fi and lyricism. <3
nexusband
Which in fact it's theorized by quite a lot physicians, that the universes ate just "rebooted", because energy can't be "lost"
neil137
physicians?
twozerooz
No it hasn't. The energy in the universe is never lost, even without some magical reboot, it just gets spread out thinner
nexusband
It has. Look at the Big Crunch theory, in combination with the oscillating universe theory by Prof. Max Tegmark. The problem with >>
nexusband
>> with the Big Bang Theory is, that the cosmological constant is a lot less, than it was predicted by said theory. Loop Quantum cosmology
CrazyGuyOnABike
doesn't energy get infinitely "thin" up to the limit? After an infinite amount of time each infinitely large amount of space contains
CrazyGuyOnABike
an infinitely small amount of energy- we are approaching the blackness anyway.
Venturite
Holy fuck. My dad read me this story when I was eight. That shit'll fuck you up when you're eight.
DemonKiller44
Yeah but it made you think didn't it?
observationalist
Bet you're more interesting for it though
ZETAGOESTOBETA
Can you tell me the story book name
agermanguy
BEDTIME PARADOX!
AnIntrovertedScientist
Good dad.
ProphetTenebrae
I can't begin to imagine how much that would have compounded my problems with existential crises.
Konoton
http://images-cdn.9gag.com/images/thumbnail-facebook/23212142_1452741178.1111_YnyPaq_n.jpg
Venturite
Wasn't even the worst story he read me. This was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God
ProphetTenebrae
I've been told I'll be a very bad parent for reasons not dissimilar to this.
Gryphacus
More! More!
DemonKiller44
Well at least he didn't read you I Have No Mouth and I must Scream
KatCatKittyKatCat
I wish my parents had bought these types of books
liliputian7
I swear to god if this is another 'humans created god' story, i'll - FUCK
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fatlittletree
You can't blame early sci-fi stories for being similar to the stories they later inspired.
liliputian7
yeah, but, like, fuck
OverlyCynicalImgurian
What's wrong with that?
liliputian7
boring, mainly
Flyndaran
Because it's stupid? Starting with a semi-realistic sci fi story and ending with primitive superstition. Bait and switch.
HeavyMetalMonk
Huh? It ends with a "scientific" explanation of that superstition.
Flyndaran
No it doesn't. There is NO science in that at all. Just silly back story to force the opening to Genesis. But if you like it then you do.
HeavyMetalMonk
Transcendent man + super computer reversed entropy and was the source of the creation myth. That's not religion.