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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-the-end-of-the-world-and-we-know-it dept.

The most comprehensive assessment of the energy output in the nearby universe reveals that today's produced energy is only about half of what it was 2 billion years ago. A team of international scientists used several of the world's most powerful telescopes to study the energy of the universe and concluded that the universe is slowly dying.

"We used as many space- and ground-based telescopes as we could get our hands on to measure the energy output of over 200,000 galaxies across as broad a wavelength range as possible," Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) team leader Simon Driver, of the University of Western Australia, said in a statement. The astronomers created a video explaining the slow death of the universe to illustrate the discovery.

A chance to roll out your cosmology humor...


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by miljo on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:36PM

    by miljo (5757) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:36PM (#221822) Journal

    Since its creation made a lot of people angry and was regarded as a bad move anyway...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by scruffybeard on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:48PM

    by scruffybeard (533) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @06:48PM (#221834)

    We apologize for the inconvenience.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Freeman on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:11PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:11PM (#221850) Journal

    I never realized how utterly hopeless life is from an atheistic world view until I read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series of books. The last book was rather depressing and would have been only more so, if I was atheist.

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    • (Score: 4, Touché) by miljo on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:21PM

      by miljo (5757) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:21PM (#221852) Journal

      I don't know, as an atheist, I tend to have a fairly positive world view and I thought the HGTTG books were extremely funny.

      I don't really feel the need to ask any particular deity to keep an eye on my mortal soul. But you're free to believe whatever you'd like.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:36PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @07:36PM (#221864)

      I seem to recall that Douglas Adams was kind of grumpy about how they wanted him to keep writing HHGG books for the fourth and/or fifth books, so maybe that explains why #4 really had nothing to do with the rest of the series and #5 was...well, I rather enjoyed it, but admittedly it was a bit dystopian.

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      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday August 12 2015, @08:15PM

        by Freeman (732) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @08:15PM (#221885) Journal

        **Spoiler Alert**
        A bit dystopian? The end result being the "Final Destruction" of earth, so some bureaucrat can check off his list. What's more, is that the destruction of the earth wasn't good enough, they also killed off, Arthur, Trillian, Tricia (alternate universe Trillian), Ford, and Random (Dent's daughter). That's about as dystopian as it gets. The only glimmer of hope was Zaphod escaping, but seriously he wasn't the most trustworthy of characters or that caring either. Though, apparently upon looking up the series again to refresh my memory, there is a sixth Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book. This one written after Douglas Adam's death by Eoin Colfer with the approval of Adams' widow.

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        • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 12 2015, @08:23PM

          by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 12 2015, @08:23PM (#221892)

          I'm a bit afraid to read the non-DA one in case it's crap.

          Meh, the series started with Earth getting blown up so ending on the same thing was just completing the circle. (insert metaphysics technobabble here)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @05:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @05:11AM (#222127)

        He was going thru a bad stretch (divorce?), and he dumped it into "Mostly Harmless".

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:47AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday August 13 2015, @08:47AM (#222188) Journal

      Yes, your existence is only the result of one of a myriad of possible random situations, and your extinction will be the same. There is no plan for your life, no purpose to your existence, and if you cannot handle that, you should kill yourself now, or become a member of one of a multitude of organizations that will tell you that none of it is true! Then you can kill yourself, throwing yourself under the juggernaut, opening a sarin gas container in a subway, going to join a comet with really nice new shoes, or just drinking the cool-aid or pressing the button that says "Valhalla now!" Or you could wait for the Earth to be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. I fail to see how Douglas Adams' version is the most depressing of these. (Oh, by the way, I talked to God, and he doesn't know you. Also said he never told Ted Cruz to run for president, or GW Bush to invade Iraq. Amazing, huh? )