Excellent band, by the way.
Explosions in the Sky
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 years ago
oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 2 years ago
I had very similar thoughts at my last Explosions in the Sky concert while tripping on acid and mushrooms.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.
Caesium@lemmy.world 2 years ago
yess, I’ve seen them live twice and I still hope they’ll tour again
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
What a great first concert, good for you!
EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
I’ve got tix at the end of the month!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
Roldyclark@literature.cafe 2 years ago
Awendering
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I’m sure Germans have one
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
abgefickt?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Ein aha-erlebnis
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Vorshtein?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Verwunderung?
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 years ago
Realitätsverschiebung?
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 years ago
Saganumenousness.
CrazM13@lemmy.world 2 years 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 1 year ago
Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Releasing the kraken
AShadyRaven@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
2Deep4Me
banazir@lemmy.ml 2 years 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 1 year ago
This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 2 years ago
Holy shit. That was pretty profound.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I love the line “when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself”
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
No u.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Or perhaps more eloquently: we’re the standing part of a harmonic fart
birdbrain5381@lemmy.world 1 year ago
rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
(apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 year 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 2 years ago
Meditate
portuga@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
buttfarts@lemy.lol 1 year ago
According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
portuga@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to “I’m not reading this”.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Jiggling. It’s about wiggling and jiggling.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Even crazier space dust!
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Reminds me of a Pete Holmes bit.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 year ago
and then downvotes it
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Mind that textbook we did in school?
I’m still tripping
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Actually I live in a skip but thanks for the pep talk.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 years ago
Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What, are you crazy? Of course there will be cheese.
I can’t believe you would even ask me that