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[Tack]

I got anonymous flowers.
This makes me wildly uncomfortable.

[chaotic skies]

Basically, if we get another one of those "dark ages" again, we're screwed. When everything is a big, mixed up mess of gasses and solids, spaceships tend to have problems. The heat-death thing is theoretical; if we were to use all the energy in the universe, due to diffusion, everything would end up being totally equal, making all current powersources useless.

I don't get what the big deal with the inevitable heat death of the universe is.

I mean, has anyone ever considered the fact that the time we have before the sun even blow up is many orders of magnitude longer than the entire of human history?

By that point we would probably either be godlike, or have nuked each other to oblivion.

It's like playing Zelda, but the Moon is crashing in 10000 years.

I agree.  The heat death of the universe is more of a philosophical point than anything else.  It means that according to our current understanding humanity can not survive forever.  But any idiot could see that using the other facts of our situation.  And it seems kind of a moot point given how short a human life is on a cosmic timescale.

Conservation of energy doesn't even fully apply to our situation.  Because Earth isn't a closed system (see: the sun).  Sure we can't create energy but we have a practically unlimited source.

Dysons sphere, anyone?

[Egan_BW]

Make new ones

with what man

[chaotic skies]

why, other universes, of course!

[TheBiggerFish]

why, other universes, of course!

This is actually quite possibly a thing.

[Amperzand]

I mean, if we get FTL, we can just ignore causality and make stars out of stars.

[TheBiggerFish]

Huh?

[Amperzand]

Moving faster than light theoretically renders the chain of cause and effect irrelevant.

[Egan_BW]

Well, good luck getting FTL.

[EnigmaticHat]

I mean, if we get FTL, we can just ignore causality and make stars out of stars.

I feel like the laws of thermodynamics are a little too fundamental for that to be possible.

[Amperzand]

I'unno man.

[chaotic skies]

Hey, the laws of physics have been re-written time and time again. Who says we can't break and re-write thermodynamics?

[TheBiggerFish]

TIPPLER CYLINDER.REDNILYC RELPPIT

[chaotic skies]

Oh god. Not this. Not here.

[TheBiggerFish]

Time travel is happened!  I dunno, probably time to stop.