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Universe's "Death Clock" Created in Minecraft

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 28 2014, @06:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the Skwisgaar-Skwigelf-taller-than-a-tree. dept.

keplr writes:

The universe is going to be around for a long time, but humans will likely not be around for the vast majority of it. This clock, built with logic gates within Minecraft, ticks the eons away via exponentially increasing "pulses", culminating in the opening of a door around the time the universe will reach thermodynamic equilibrium -- when time itself will die, and every moment will be like every other that will follow.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday March 28 2014, @05:05PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday March 28 2014, @05:05PM (#22595)

    I dug up an old version (sans online play) back from when they still had snow worlds. I think the last straw with me was when they fleshed out the Nether and added a gajillion different potions and weapon enchantments, and and and...

    In other news, all the best PC games came out 1996-2000 ;-) Civ 2, Alpha Centauri, Space Empires 4, Over the Reich...

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