Excellent band, by the way.
Explosions in the Sky
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 months ago
oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 8 months ago
I had very similar thoughts at my last Explosions in the Sky concert while tripping on acid and mushrooms.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.
Caesium@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yess, I’ve seen them live twice and I still hope they’ll tour again
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
First band I ever saw live.
Still have the smarties they threw to the crowd after the last song.
Toronto… 07 or 08ish?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What a great first concert, good for you!
EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Amazing band, and lovely people too. I saw them in Bristol about 5-6 years ago, and met them after their show. I told them that I owe them my Computer Science degree since they’re basically my study playlist, and apparently they get that from fans often.
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’ve got tix at the end of the month!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
Roldyclark@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Awendering
blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I’m sure Germans have one
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
abgefickt?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Ein aha-erlebnis
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Vorshtein?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Verwunderung?
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 8 months ago
Realitätsverschiebung?
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Saganumenousness.
CrazM13@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.
On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Releasing the kraken
AShadyRaven@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
2Deep4Me
banazir@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he’s got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Holy shit. That was pretty profound.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love the line “when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself”
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d condense the whole post down to:
The universe is an ongoing explosion. Sometimes the exploded dust becomes haunted.
That’s us.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
No u.
theneverfox@pawb.social 8 months ago
An explosion is pure entropy. It’s high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Perhaps another way to think of it is that we’re a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Or perhaps more eloquently: we’re the standing part of a harmonic fart
birdbrain5381@lemmy.world 8 months ago
rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
(apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months 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.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
On the overall scale of the universe? No, not even remotely close. On the local scale of the Earth, generally yes.
jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos
myrrh@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
…just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence…
General_Effort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.
zante@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Meditate
portuga@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
buttfarts@lemy.lol 8 months ago
According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
portuga@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking
MadBob@feddit.nl 8 months ago
The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to “I’m not reading this”.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Jiggling. It’s about wiggling and jiggling.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn’t you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.
troybot@midwest.social 8 months ago
I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Even crazier space dust!
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Reminds me of a Pete Holmes bit.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 months ago
and then downvotes it
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Mind that textbook we did in school?
I’m still tripping
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Actually I live in a skip but thanks for the pep talk.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What, are you crazy? Of course there will be cheese.
I can’t believe you would even ask me that