We humans can never become immortal for there are powers in the universe that humans , or anyone, can ever control. Like when a black hole explodes as one example.
So because you might step into a black hole, we can't be immortal? Like how if we might step in front of a bus, we can't be alive?
No, I mean when a black hole explodes, theres no way to prevent it from happening unlike a sun going super nova which could be avoided.,
When one explodes, it is called an ultra nova and even galaxies thousands of light years way are adversly affected and destroyed.
Dude... ...once your species becomes immortal, you learn how to just shove a great sodding cork in them pesky bastids ! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I've heard of a “Super Nova” when a super large star like “VY Canis Majoris” explodes but I've only ever heard of "Ultra Nova" as a monster from Japanese “Ultraman Leo” TV series. I’d never heard that Black Holes could explode, I understood that they eventually evaporate.
Yeah, black holes can't explain, as they're just very strong distortions in the universal space-time. Black holes can collide, and the result is a release of gravitational waves causing some serious gravitonic activity (probably with the ability to knock a comet to Earth if close enough), but the only mass associated with a black hole is the stuff that goes in it, in which becoming infinite in mass in density would have no quantitative attribution that would allow it to explode but rather implode.
Obvious question that this raises: If it's so easy for species to become immortal, then where are they? Any advanced species that wanted to could colonize the entire galaxy in "just" a few hundred thousand years. Which is a long time by human standards, but the blink of an eye in galactic time. So why aren't these immortal species all over the place?
Step out of the box please... If we can harness the mechanism of making stars and planets from some short of primal seed, (learn to control the strings - if such exists) we could build our own bubble universe and keep the bad guys out....just a thought...
LOL that was good Killjoy. Create your own universe: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6545246 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125591.500
I have never understood the propensity of people in science to speculate about extraterrestrial intelligence, especially when the only obviously correct answer is "There is not enough data to determine the probability of extraterrestrial intelligence." His theory that we wouldn't be interesting to them because we are too primitive seems odd. We're interested in germs. We study them in great detail. The truth is if we do find extraterrestrial intelligence it might be so alien that he's right. It could be so alien that it doesn't care about us even if we were advanced. I wonder if it might not be so alien as to be disappointing. Scifi tends to come up with human-like aliens with human-like motivations. I do miss Brink though. It's a shame it was like, just me watching it. R.I.P Brink.
