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The Last Question. . bat question was asked for the first time, halt in jest, on May 21, 2061, at ' time when humanity " stepped into the tight. The question ca

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bat question was asked for the first
time, halt in jest, on May 21, 2061,
at ' time when humanity " stepped
into the tight.
The question came about as o MN of
a over highballs, and
it happened this way.
AD 2061. 05. 21
IT' S AMAZING
WHEN YOU THINK
ALL THE ENERGY WE CAN
POSSIBLY EVER USE FOR
FREE. ENOUGH ENERGY. F
WE WANTED TO DRAW ON IT, TO
MELT ALL EARTH INTO A BIG
DROP OF IMPLORE LIQUID IRON.
AND STILL NEVER MISS THE
ENERGY so USED.
ALL THE ENERGY
WE COULD EVER use,
FOREVER AND FOREVER
AND FOREVER.
mg killt
FUN/ L BERT.
ALL RIGHT. THEN. BILLIONS
AND BILLIONS OF YEARS. TEN
BILLION. MAYBE. ARE YOU
SATISFIED?

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#3 - allucando (08/22/2015) [-]

Congratulations on making down here, need anything? Water, snacks?

#181 to #3 - slobiscuit (08/23/2015) [-]

**slobiscuit used "*roll picture*"**
**slobiscuit rolled image**can someone call an ambalam??? I was going to fast, officer.

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#113 to #3 - reginleif (08/23/2015) [-]

I need some reveresed entropy pls.

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#103 to #3 - rainbowrush ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

I'll have some fries

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#141 to #103 - newdevyx (08/23/2015) [-]

Aww **** . We don't have those. You have to go back up to get them.

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#101 to #3 - buttinspecter (08/23/2015) [-]

No thanks, Tim Allen. I'm fine.

#109 to #101 - anon (08/23/2015) [-]

I don't see Tim Allen, but I do see that guy from the caddyshack 2 on the lower right.

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#8 to #3 - needsauceadmisblan (08/22/2015) [-]

il take a coke.

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#13 to #8 - allucando (08/22/2015) [-]

Ima need just bout this much

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#20 to #13 - strigt (08/22/2015) [-]

Gaddammit

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#83 to #8 - Anetheril (08/23/2015) [-]

**Anetheril used "*roll picture*"**
**Anetheril rolled image** is pepsi ok?

#87 to #83 - needsauceadmisblan (08/23/2015) [-]

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**needsauceadmisblan rolled image**

#178 to #83 - greedtheavaricious (08/23/2015) [-]

Is monopoly money okay?

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#14 to #3 - jaevel ONLINE (08/22/2015) [-]

Nah, Im good! But hanks for asking!

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#156 to #14 - achphoenix (08/23/2015) [-]

You will take those snacks and you will like them.

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#159 to #156 - jaevel ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

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#33 to #3 - aizeinstein (08/23/2015) [-]

My...my brother. He's been missing for months. The last I heard he was headed here. Where is he?

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#58 - cnblade ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

I can't believe the spirit bomb is ******* dead.

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#40 - sengo (08/23/2015) [-]

Oh blessed be Asimov's name!

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#23 - eudendeew (08/22/2015) [-]

**eudendeew used "*roll picture*"**
**eudendeew rolled image** Never letting my Air Conditioning have consciousness.

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#32 to #23 - iamhereforthestory (08/23/2015) [-]

uner8ted

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#1 - berengar (08/22/2015) [-]

That was a very good read.

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#25 - hairycheeseball (08/22/2015) [-]

Was starting to think there was no end

#194 to #25 - zmranger (08/23/2015) [-]

Poets of the Fall - No End No Beginning.

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#126 to #25 - udungoofedup (08/23/2015) [-]

There was no end. Only a beginning.

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#27 to #25 - oblesidonika (08/22/2015) [-]

Exactly.

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#34 - bemmo ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

So related.
This was a good read, I hope the universe really does turn out to be cyclical in the end; it's reincarnation on the cosmic scale.

#65 to #34 - anon (08/23/2015) [-]

Possibly, but The universe will expand before it contracts i believe. But energy can not be created or destroyed, even if in the form of matter. The comic has entropy of matter and stars dying out etc. which is true, but the energy is still there whether in radiation, thermal, light, etc. If possible, you could contain the entire universe from expanding and keep the energy density at a constant, then you can simply collect and convert that energy into a usable form. Nothing is ever lost, only changed. If this is the case, you can collect the light and heat across the countless light years of space and use that to re-break the elements in the current dead starts and restart the reactor. Basically, just collecting the heat, light, and radiation ever produced by that star, and putting it back after it was released simply restarting what happened before it died therefor making the star new again. If technological advancements are nearly endless as we see them now, i see entropy never being an issue, as you could simply make the universe a perpetual motion machine.

#77 to #65 - anon (08/23/2015) [-]

Some scientist are starting to question whether the universe would actually die out as depicted in the comic. As the universe expands, the maximum possible entropy expands faster than entropy itself. So basically, the universe won't reach entropy until it starts to contract.

Of course, whether or not the universe will contract is also being debated. The simple fact is that we don't know enough about our universe. Most of the current theories and predictions about how the universe will end conflict with the laws of physics as we know them.

#144 to #77 - bemmo ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

"The simple fact is that we don't know enough about our universe."
So what you're saying... Is that we have insufficient data for a meaningful answer?

#86 to #34 - kameken (08/23/2015) [-]

I've...

I've never seen any of this other than the bear's rant before.

#68 to #34 - CommonJoo (08/23/2015) [-]

wow Federick calm the **** down.

That was really good though

#105 to #34 - nexmorismortis (08/23/2015) [-]

Albert is a bro

#38 to #34 - captchakid (08/23/2015) [-]

That was really good.

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#17 - swbfguide (08/22/2015) [-]

That was ******* beautiful.

For some reason though, I'm not sure why, but if the human race ever discovers interstellar travel in my lifetime, I don't want to use it. Earth is my home, and I intend to grow old here and die here. I dunno, if i wasn't on earth when I died, how would I be able to participate in the great oncoming skeleton war?

#55 to #17 - geneticrepo (08/23/2015) [-]

See I feel the complete opposite. Once we find space travel if I'm alive I'm going to abuse the hell out of it. I think it's the coolest **** in the world to be able to say that I was from Earth but I'm making a life on Mars or x 84 or something. And by that time I'd be immortal and my dreams will become reality. Lol

#85 to #55 - balnce ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

Wouldn't it be literally the coolest **** NOT in this world?

#206 to #85 - geneticrepo (08/23/2015) [-]

Technicallycorrect.jpg

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#124 to #17 - exacerbated (08/23/2015) [-]

Interstellar skeleton wars tho

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#169 to #124 - adzoh (08/23/2015) [-]

Interskellar

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#96 to #17 - bvsfang (08/23/2015) [-]

But what about that sweet alien pussy?
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#142 to #96 - swbfguide (08/23/2015) [-]

#176 to #96 - destismad (08/23/2015) [-]

You're gonna get alien aids though.

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#5 - anon (08/22/2015) [-]

God I love Isaac Asimov.

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#11 - carth (08/22/2015) [-]

Entropy, you say?

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#35 - captchakid (08/23/2015) [-]

This helped me with my depression, having thought of that same question myself quite a bit in recent years. It always made me sad to think that no matter what I do, we'll always just end up dying out eventually, and that may still hold true, but this story really gives me some much needed hope.

Thanks for sharing this OP.

#89 to #35 - severepwner (08/23/2015) [-]

Out of curiousity, why does the reality that the universe (or rather everything in the universe) is not immortal affect your mind negatively?

#106 to #89 - captchakid (08/23/2015) [-]

Its depressing to me, to think that no matter what anyone does or accomplishes, it doesn't matter.

I mean, sure, you could argue I should only worry about my lifetime, but that's too selfish to me. I want to think about the generations after me, and how I can better their lives in some way.

#146 to #106 - severepwner (08/23/2015) [-]

Here's two things of philosophical nature I'd like you to consider.

Even if it's natural for you to worry about the specie's future, your children's future, is it necessary for you to worry? Or even think of their doom? The end of our world is simply put, the problem of our far off descendents, it isn't our destiny to save mankind from that problem. Our responsibility is to continue building the best world for the next generation to work off of, and continuing building it for their children. Until the day the final generation must face their destiny of facing the clock. We should leave ourselves to our destiny, and our children to their's.

Second thing...

Why is where mankind end up important? Is mankind's immortality that important? Why must our legacy and existence be permanent? What if the only thing we really ever have to worry about, is today? Maybe the only thing we need to worry about, is living the most satisfying life until it expires. The drug trip called life. Maybe what happens before or what happens after doesn't matter at all, and all that matters is how good you lived today. The purpose of life doesn't have to mean what we leave in stone, because that doesn't matter to our lives once we've finished living them. Also, perhaps our existence is meant to end so the next can begin. One door closes, another opens. Maybe we shouldn't keep the next book of life waiting any longer than we should.

#207 to #146 - zmranger (08/23/2015) [-]

>"Maybe what happens before or what happens after doesn't matter at all, and all that matters is how good you lived today."
Even if that can be considered true, I would like to point out that some people just cant live, blissfully ignorant, through the day without thinking about tomorrow. My guess is that captchakid is one of them. I'm happy he found this.
Pic irrelevant.

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#22 - tulimarito (08/22/2015) [-]

This was so beautiful. Im speechless.

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#21 - afaik (08/22/2015) [-]

********* 22

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#9 - retardedboss (08/22/2015) [-]

This is an awesome story. It made me sad in an existential way, but then made me smile. That's damn good sci-fi.

#160 to #9 - sobir ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

Not neceseraly sci-fi. All mater is connected and science has already confirmed that by changing ourselfs we can influence the rest of matter as well. An intelect that has been developing for billions of years might be even able to create new galaxies just by thought

#161 to #160 - retardedboss (08/23/2015) [-]

Well it's not a true story and it revolves heavily around a scientific premise. Science fiction is a pretty apt genera.

#167 to #161 - sobir ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

true

#108 - superanonymouspers (08/23/2015) [-]

"just who the hell do you think we are?! Do you think we'd just let the universe die out?!"

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#2 - schneidend (08/22/2015) [-]

That first naysayer kinda seems like a cunt. "Hahaha, you're weak on logic. You think we'll switch to another sun? They all die out at the same time." Then we see them clearly using a bunch of different stars for power.

#39 to #2 - darmenias ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

He didn't realize humanity would reach an omega point. We can't even guess what'll replace the internet and that probably isn't far away. What would you think?

#43 to #39 - schneidend (08/23/2015) [-]

I wouldn't just assume that every star would burn out at the same time and call it logic, for starters.

#44 to #43 - darmenias ONLINE (08/23/2015) [-]

Well, I must concede that point, yeah...

#63 to #43 - lphabeta (08/23/2015) [-]

In the written story he was in a pissy mood, deliberately negative, because he'd had to carry all the glassware for the pair's celebration.

#56 to #2 - anon (08/23/2015) [-]

I don't think he meant that they'd all burn out at the same time so much as they'll all burn out eventually. Besides, it was actually the guy who said they'd have enough energy to last forever who also said that the stars would all be dead when the sun was. The naysayer actually corrected him without pointing out his mistake a couple word bubbles afterward.