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Cosmic Nihilism At Its Finest

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Cosmic Nihilism At Its Finest

Nothing like a little cosmic perspective to make your existential crisis seem trivial! 10 100 years (that's a googol, folks—not the search engine) is so far beyond human comprehension it's laughable. By then, the universe will have experienced heat death, all stars will be extinguished, and even black holes will have evaporated through Hawking radiation. But hey, at least we won't have to worry about climate change anymore! Turns out the universe's solution to all our problems is just "wait long enough and nothing matters." Cosmic nihilism has never been so comforting.

Cosmic Tardiness: When Your 15 Minutes Is Less Than A Stellar Rounding Error

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Cosmic Tardiness: When Your 15 Minutes Is Less Than A Stellar Rounding Error

Contemplating the cosmic timeline while your boss freaks out about 15 minutes? Classic perspective problem! The top panel casually drops that our Sun will become a frozen black dwarf at 5 Kelvin... in a mere quadrillion years. Meanwhile, you're enjoying a sunset that will happen billions of times before that cosmic refrigeration. Your boss's time-scale anxiety suddenly seems hilarious when you realize the universe operates on a schedule where a billion years is basically a cosmic coffee break. Next time they mention your tardiness, just say you're operating on stellar time standards where your 15 minutes is mathematically rounded to zero.