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Just watched this and it made me freak out a bit!

posted 8 years ago by Breakwood83
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It would make sense that we are a simulation! Its like we have been carefuly put in the middle of nowhere on our little blue planet, we cant find life anywhere else, its like the end of the program is outer space, maybe there is an end, but the creators are clever we will never find it.

We have the potential, the dreams and the aspirations of the creators, cause we are made in there images but we are stuck in this little world. For exemple maybe in the real world the universe is not so empty.

Im just being philosophical here dont worry whoever read this im not off my meds lol.

[–] virgiltx 8 years ago

What you say might be true, but it's also ironic that we can put life out there by means of science fiction, and tabloid exposés of aliens. That would be easier for them to code, because they don't need to create all the anatomical and biochemical detail of aliens.

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[–] Breakwood83 8 years ago

There are many traits that make us humans, we are curious, we explore, conquer and always push the limits.

Those traits i just mentioned dont fit with the reality of our world. We conquered what we could, we consumed what we could, we explored what we could and now we are degenerating.

Its like if the real world was limitless, real humans in that world created this sim, they copy-pasted themself in us but trapped us here in this little little world. They didnt make the necessary changes for us to be happy here, to fit in, what a mistake.

No wonder we gaze upon the stars, dream of sci-fi scenarios and all fantasy stuff, its our repressed nature bursting out.

[–] virgiltx 8 years ago

RE being trapped in this little blue planet: It was realized shortly after the beginning of the space-age, that humans could better explore outward by sending unmanned spacecraft. Humans were too expensive to send and required literally tons of life support and shielding, and that simply interfered with scientific exploration equipment.

But in terms of finding the extension of our world, extra-terrestrial life and civilization, we can't conclude that we've simply failed and that that's that. For a long time we couldn't see planets around other stars. But then, since the launch of the Kepler telescope in 2009, we've discovered over 2,000.

Also NASA is now planning missions to look for life on Europa and Mars.

So we haven't found the green wire grid of a sim world edge like Doug and Jerry did. Maybe we just find maybe-life like Mars and Europa, and maybe worlds like Kepler's. And that's the equivalent of the wire grid that we get--never able to answer the question: "Is there someone else out there?"

But maybe we'll find exo life, which may or not be part of a sim. And maybe we'll go way out when we have fusion power. So I don't think we know that we're stymied based on the ungainliness of human space flight, and the slow pace of discovery about life beyond

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[–] Breakwood83 8 years ago

Yeah i get that physicaly we didnt find the end of our " universe", but what if the giantness of space purpose is precisely to make it impossible for us to find the " end of the world" thus discovering the truth? And what a dull universe nothing to really motivate us to go out there, even if its in our nature to explore and all, we cant find anything else then barren planets lights years around us.

Maybe mining will get us to the moon again and mars for the first time, cant see micro organism being incentive enough for massive missions.

[–] Strange_Botwin 8 years ago

I definitely identify with both you guy's points. But I totally reject the notion that the universe is dull. Even if it is a simulation and it just goes on and on forever; planet after planet, star after star, galaxy after galaxy. It's f'ing incredible.

[–] georgijeg1 8 years ago

As a programmer i can tell you a bit about how simulated worlds, for example in games work. There is no need to simulate things that nobody can see because that would be a waste of resources. For you and me the world around us might be simulated only down to a hundreth of a milimeter, everything smaller than that could be kind of averaged. I happen to have a cheap microscope with 100x magnification, so when i look through it, a very tiny part of the world starts being simulated at a ten thousandth of a millimeter. To simulate my whole room at that scale would be a huge waste of resources.

For the ladies and gentlemen at CERN, some very very small things get simulated for a little while.
We have no satellites around Neptune, so for all we know it might just be simulated at a kilometer scale when Hubble looks at it, but otherwise is just a little dot.
The further out you go, the simpler the simulations get, and for all we know, the furthest galaxies might just be simulated as a few pixels.

And in case you were wondering, no, a tree falling does not make a sound if there is nobody around to hear it. It simply appears as being on the ground the next time somebody walks by.

[–] thulk01 8 years ago

Cool info, do you have any more examples/thoughts?