• Sordid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn’t mean we should stop postponing.

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      1 year ago

      Earth will become a molten blob in a few billion years… then over a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times later…

      Whatever lives on Earth in a billion years from now, if it spreads out, will have a few billion times more billions of years to live.

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      1 year ago

      You’re assuming an eternal universe (as opposed to, e.g., a big crunch), which seems likely given the observed accelerating expansion of the universe.