Comment on Explosions in the Sky

theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Perhaps another way to think of it is that we’re a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or perhaps more eloquently: we’re the standing part of a harmonic fart

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    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t understand this, but it sounds cool.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        We’re the fixed red dot in the superposition of the green and blue waves interfering with one other

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• birdbrain5381@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But how do you reverse entropy when the last star dies out?

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    INSUFFICIENT DATA

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If only this was a response AI could give. I think it would solve a lot of the problems

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      xkcd.com/1448/

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  • rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    (apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?

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• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But are we actually creating order? To maintain life’s order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.

  Life is but an entropy maximization machine.

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    On the overall scale of the universe? No, not even remotely close. On the local scale of the Earth, generally yes.

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, as much as possible anyway. When considering mass alone, life is quite efficient.

      According to Wolfram Alpha:

      The sun produces 3.8 * 10^28^ watts.

      A single human produces 104 watts (calculated through the average caloric intake assuming that intake ≈ energy consumption) through heat radiation.

      Therefore:

      1 kg of human converts 1.5 watt into heat.

      1 kg of the sun converts 0.0002 watt into (heat) radiation.

      And while I have nearly no understanding how entropy is calculated, from those values alone it seems like humans produce more entropy per kg than the sun. I’m pretty sure entropy is somewhat related to energy production though.

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      • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, if you consider just a human-mass equivalent portion of the Sun then it’s not doing much, but that’s not really a useful comparison. We’re talking about total net entropy here, not entropy per unit mass.

        But yes, if it makes you feel any better, I’ll concede that if you had octillions of people our total metabolic energy output would, in fact, be significantly higher than that of the Sun.

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• jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos

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• myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  …just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence…

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