NOTE: may be inaccurate. Feel free to photoshop your variants.

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        It doesn’t. It’s not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.

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          Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

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            I read in this book that there’s a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.

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              Shh!" said Ford. “It’s conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn’t matter. Sugar’s fine. And when it’s full, you pull the plug out… are you listening?” “I’m listening.” "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. “Clever.” “That’s not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector… backwards!” “Backwards?” “Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?” “And that’s how the Universe began is it?” said Arthur. “No,” said Ford, "but it’s a marvelous way to relax.

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            Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star’s life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won’t be anyone around to notice.

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      Historians of the medieval era hate the term “dark ages”, even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

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        I once heard in some history tv show that it’s called “dark ages” not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.

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      Only a little unfortunate they skipped the enlightenment, akin to what Europe had.

      • pretty much everything between ~600 and 1900 and pretty much everywhere from Morrocco to Turkey to Iran.

        Just read up on Moors, Ottomans, Iranians, Mail Empire, Islamic culture, science and arts…

        A lot of it in Palestine got destroyed by the savage European crusaders though.

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      You want me to say “Feel free to GIMP your variants”? =\

      P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

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        The word you are looking for is “make” or “edit”.

        Kids these days… Have to rename everything! /s

        Did you know that “to google something” is the proprietary version of “to search something”? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It’s time to stop!*

        I envy you because I don’t know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don’t really need/use it, so yeah.

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      keep using ‘photoshop’ as a generic term and verb until it becomes ‘generic enough’ for adobe to lose its trademark. same with ‘google’ ftm.

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        Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s

        Instead use edit/make/search.

        *Look how they massacred my boy English!*

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        Enough is enough. It’s time to make this year the year of Linux. /s

        I mean, I mostly enjoy my FOSS (there are some issues). At least I don’t have to pay thousands of dollars or pirate it (and hiding it) only to find out that it’s Linux incompatible.

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    Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don’t forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).

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    We don’t have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.

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    If you want to be “accurate” middle age and now would be the same line (because the last millennia is about 0.33…% of homo sapien’s history) and bright future would be pretty fucking long because there’s at least a billion years ahead of us for life on Earth, probably more…

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      because there’s at least a billion years ahead of us for life on Earth, probably more…

      That’s optimistic. With record heat levels, it’s going to become uninhabitable for humans long before a billion years.

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        That’s just humans though, plenty of life will go on living and they will probably be better off without a global apex predator in their way. That will be the true bright future for life on Earth. Maybe we’ll eventually manage to better ourselves and solve the climate problems we’re facing too, time will tell.

        One thing though, some sections of the planet will become uninhabitable for humans, not all though. People have been living in the scorching heat of the desert for thousands of years, if the average summer temperature closer to the poles increases to 27 instead of 22, people will manage to survive there, worst case they’ll adopt a nomadic lifestyle again.

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        Humans aren’t the only beings living on this planet and other life forms will thrive long past the point where homo sapiens disappear.