Damn. I better get my shit in order
Why bother when there is so little time left?
You’re right, let’s just call this one and start fresh with the next.
You guys got extra lives?!?!
Meow!
Well, then I’m not paying my mortgage anymore.
Not me, I was only able to get 1033 year amortization on mine.
Nope, it only lets you go to year 2100.
any chance we could move that to next week?
Please don’t, I haven’t played all the video games yet.
You weren’t going to do that anyway.
Please. You have at least 10.1^78 hours unplayed in your Steam account.
I think I’m getting close to finishing Outer Wilds. Please hold off until I’ve completed that game. Also Half Life 3.
Oh no! I have concert tickets that day…
Not fucking soon enough
Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That’s 10^90 years.
Aw shit, there goes my retirement plans
Well, it sure feels like forever.
Just when I was gonna have as much money as bezos
fuck fuck shit fuck
For comparison, if you had a deck of 52 playing cards and shuffled them into a random order, then checked a year later to see if they were in the same order as when you opened the box, reshuffled if they weren’t, and repeated another year later, and so on…
We can use the cumulative distribution function of the geometric distribution 1 - (1 - p)k, where p is the per-trial probability and k is the number of trials, to find the chance that you’ll find at least one correctly sorted deck from now until the time in this paper. There’s a… Well, SageMath failed because of the exponent, but Wolfram Alpha tells me, uhhhhh…
Yeaaaaaaaaah, we’re not going anywhere any time soon.
Now I gotta rearrange my Google Calendar … again!
In all seriousness I wonder if GCal could schedule something this far in the future…
Pack your bags.
Get your affairs in order.
I’m gonna first need to order some affairs.
looks like we’ve got 1078 years to figure out time travel
