Re: life snuffing - you may be right. Presumably the various galactic centers will make swings through parts of the other galaxies and eventually wind up near each other, though I have no idea what time scale that would be. And fuel would keep getting burned up and gobbled up. Whenever it happens, there seems to be a long dark period ahead for the universe as it all dies down.
But that is true for us all. My assumption is that if there was one Big Bang with the right parameters, eventually and/or somewhere there will be another. And another.
Maybe someday some bright entity will figure out how to learn about them. At the moment, I'd be happy to get to another star system. :<)
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Date: 2007-06-09 03:23 am (UTC)Re: life snuffing - you may be right. Presumably the various galactic centers will make swings through parts of the other galaxies and eventually wind up near each other, though I have no idea what time scale that would be. And fuel would keep getting burned up and gobbled up. Whenever it happens, there seems to be a long dark period ahead for the universe as it all dies down.
But that is true for us all. My assumption is that if there was one Big Bang with the right parameters, eventually and/or somewhere there will be another. And another.
Maybe someday some bright entity will figure out how to learn about them. At the moment, I'd be happy to get to another star system. :<)