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  Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 12:20 -0400
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 14:11 -0400
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-18 17:41 -0500
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-27 10:30 -0500
    Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-07-18 13:18 -0700
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-18 17:44 -0500
        Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-07-19 07:52 -0700
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 07:49 -0400
        Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:22 -0400
      Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe' "W.T.S." <m14m@earthlink.net> - 2015-07-27 10:30 -0500

#507857 — Re: Interesting episode of 'The Universe'

On 7/18/2015 10:23 AM, Steve wrote:
> The universe as we know it will perish.  The episode concentrated on
> the 'fact?' that there is only so much matter in the universe that
> can be used to make stars.  Gas; dust.  And all stars will finally
> exhaust themselves and become dark.  Eventually in perhaps hundreds
> of trillions(or more)years, there will be no more shining stars.  The
> solution:  Find a way to enter other universes.(if they exist).
> We've got lots of time to figure it out(if it is able to be
> figured).


There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a 
scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's 
ultimate demise.

As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years and 
eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace 
and it watched as the final stars winked out.

After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things 
around, it finally devised a solution..

It said to no one in particular:

"LET THERE BE LIGHT"


-- 
Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.
HAIL HYDRA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcG5UOY224

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#507871

On 07/18/2015 12:20 PM, HVAC wrote:
> On 7/18/2015 10:23 AM, Steve wrote:
>> The universe as we know it will perish.  The episode concentrated on
>> the 'fact?' that there is only so much matter in the universe that
>> can be used to make stars.  Gas; dust.  And all stars will finally
>> exhaust themselves and become dark.  Eventually in perhaps hundreds
>> of trillions(or more)years, there will be no more shining stars.  The
>> solution:  Find a way to enter other universes.(if they exist).
>> We've got lots of time to figure it out(if it is able to be
>> figured).
>
>
> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
> ultimate demise.
>
> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years and
> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>
> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
> around, it finally devised a solution..
>
> It said to no one in particular:
>
> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"

Entropy not increasing.

Hyperspace does not exist.

Fiction = all lies.

No wonder you loved it.



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#507915

benj <nobody@gmail.com> wrote in news:WEwqx.175172$_a4.126133@fx03.iad:

> On 07/18/2015 12:20 PM, HVAC wrote:
>> On 7/18/2015 10:23 AM, Steve wrote:
>>> The universe as we know it will perish.  The episode concentrated on
>>> the 'fact?' that there is only so much matter in the universe that
>>> can be used to make stars.  Gas; dust.  And all stars will finally
>>> exhaust themselves and become dark.  Eventually in perhaps hundreds
>>> of trillions(or more)years, there will be no more shining stars.  The
>>> solution:  Find a way to enter other universes.(if they exist).
>>> We've got lots of time to figure it out(if it is able to be
>>> figured).
>>
>>
>> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
>> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
>> ultimate demise.
>>
>> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years 
and
>> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
>> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>>
>> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
>> around, it finally devised a solution..
>>
>> It said to no one in particular:
>>
>> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
> 
> Entropy not increasing.
Oh, yes it is.  Do you know nothing of physics, or are you a creationist?  
> 
> Hyperspace does not exist.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
> 
> Fiction = all lies.
The atom bomb was fiction before it became reality.
> 
> No wonder you loved it.

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#509847

benj <nobody@gmail.com> wrote in news:WEwqx.175172$_a4.126133@fx03.iad:

> On 07/18/2015 12:20 PM, HVAC wrote:
>> On 7/18/2015 10:23 AM, Steve wrote:
>>> The universe as we know it will perish.  The episode concentrated on
>>> the 'fact?' that there is only so much matter in the universe that
>>> can be used to make stars.  Gas; dust.  And all stars will finally
>>> exhaust themselves and become dark.  Eventually in perhaps hundreds
>>> of trillions(or more)years, there will be no more shining stars.  The
>>> solution:  Find a way to enter other universes.(if they exist).
>>> We've got lots of time to figure it out(if it is able to be
>>> figured).
>>
>>
>> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
>> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
>> ultimate demise.
>>
>> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years 
and
>> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
>> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>>
>> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
>> around, it finally devised a solution..
>>
>> It said to no one in particular:
>>
>> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
> 
> Entropy not increasing.
Oh, yes it is.  Do you know nothing of physics, or are you a creationist?  
> 
> Hyperspace does not exist.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
> 
> Fiction = all lies.
The atom bomb was fiction before it became reality.
> 
> No wonder you loved it.

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#507891

On 07/18/2015 09:20 AM, HVAC wrote:
>
> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
> ultimate demise.
>
> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years and
> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>
> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
> around, it finally devised a solution..
>
> It said to no one in particular:
>
> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"

That's not science fiction, it's pure fantasy.   You can't reverse 
entropy by just making a wish and saying let it be so.  Science fiction 
is more like Asimov's story "The Martian Way", where a McCarthyesque 
politician on Earth finagles an embargo on all water exports to Mars, so 
the colonists there go "fine" and haul it in as ice from the rings of 
Saturn.

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#507917

talishi <talishi@example.net> wrote in news:moeccd02jui@news6.newsguy.com:

> On 07/18/2015 09:20 AM, HVAC wrote:
>>
>> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
>> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
>> ultimate demise.
>>
>> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years 
and
>> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
>> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>>
>> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
>> around, it finally devised a solution..
>>
>> It said to no one in particular:
>>
>> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
> 
> That's not science fiction, it's pure fantasy.   You can't reverse 
> entropy by just making a wish and saying let it be so.  Science fiction 
> is more like Asimov's story "The Martian Way", where a McCarthyesque 
> politician on Earth finagles an embargo on all water exports to Mars, so 
> the colonists there go "fine" and haul it in as ice from the rings of 
> Saturn.

I wish we could stop bringing in oil from the Mid-East, and not just us, 
but the rest of the world.  The TW-I (Terror War One) would end in about 
a decade after that.  Until we cut the dependence on oil, it'll just go 
on and on, sort of like an electrical fire does until you turn off the 
power.

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#508016

On 07/18/2015 03:44 PM, W.T.S. wrote:
> I wish we could stop bringing in oil from the Mid-East, and not just us,
> but the rest of the world.  The TW-I (Terror War One) would end in about
> a decade after that.  Until we cut the dependence on oil, it'll just go
> on and on, sort of like an electrical fire does until you turn off the
> power.

We're almost there, and almost ready to export oil even, with fracking, 
but some folks want to ban that and go back to the tender mercies of OPEC.

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#507983

On 7/18/2015 4:18 PM, talishi wrote:
> On 07/18/2015 09:20 AM, HVAC wrote:
>>
>> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
>> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
>> ultimate demise.
>>
>> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years and
>> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
>> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>>
>> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
>> around, it finally devised a solution..
>>
>> It said to no one in particular:
>>
>> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
>
> That's not science fiction, it's pure fantasy.   You can't reverse
> entropy by just making a wish and saying let it be so.


Thank you for clearing that up.


-- 
Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.
HAIL HYDRA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcG5UOY224

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#508157

On 07/19/2015 07:49 AM, HVAC wrote:
> On 7/18/2015 4:18 PM, talishi wrote:
>> On 07/18/2015 09:20 AM, HVAC wrote:
>>>
>>> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
>>> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
>>> ultimate demise.
>>>
>>> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years and
>>> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
>>> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>>>
>>> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
>>> around, it finally devised a solution..
>>>
>>> It said to no one in particular:
>>>
>>> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
>>
>> That's not science fiction, it's pure fantasy.   You can't reverse
>> entropy by just making a wish and saying let it be so.

Most sane people can't but in Harlow's (HVAC) life his superpowers allow 
him to make ANYTHING true simply buy imagining it and saying it.
He can make people believe what he says they believe and make any laws 
of physics do his bidding. That is the power of his mind. This includes 
reversing entropy simply by imagining it.

> Thank you for clearing that up.

You're welcome.



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#509846

talishi <talishi@example.net> wrote in news:moeccd02jui@news6.newsguy.com:

> On 07/18/2015 09:20 AM, HVAC wrote:
>>
>> There was a short scifi story I read as a kid (Asimov?) where a
>> scientist built a computer to solve the problem of the universe's
>> ultimate demise.
>>
>> As entropy increased, the computer became smarter and over the years 
and
>> eons, rebuilt itself many times. Finally it existed only in hyperspace
>> and it watched as the final stars winked out.
>>
>> After an immeasurable time and with no humans nor any living things
>> around, it finally devised a solution..
>>
>> It said to no one in particular:
>>
>> "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
> 
> That's not science fiction, it's pure fantasy.   You can't reverse 
> entropy by just making a wish and saying let it be so.  Science fiction 
> is more like Asimov's story "The Martian Way", where a McCarthyesque 
> politician on Earth finagles an embargo on all water exports to Mars, so 
> the colonists there go "fine" and haul it in as ice from the rings of 
> Saturn.

I wish we could stop bringing in oil from the Mid-East, and not just us, 
but the rest of the world.  The TW-I (Terror War One) would end in about 
a decade after that.  Until we cut the dependence on oil, it'll just go 
on and on, sort of like an electrical fire does until you turn off the 
power.

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