yeah…time is relative…after you have endured another frigid day…..i do query…will the warm heat of summer ever come…..but if you are a rock i guess it does not matter…
Throwing out a Whiffle Ball thought, I wonder if the minerals in this boulder are somewhat super conductive, so that the colder it gets the more intelligent it is? Relatively speaking.If some rocks have awareness, what tales they could tell of its ephemeral surroundings! Crystals can hold a lot of data, and if it could be downloaded for viewing …
This is exactly why most humans wouldn’t want to live forever, imagine if the average human life span was just a mere 10,000 years…to think you’d likely have to work 9,000 years of that before you retire…that is unless you win the lottery, invest wisely and get rich or you save a portion of your paycheck for a few thousand years and get a few million by then.
Me personally, hell would be an eternity having to work at a crappy job with no way to quit or get fired.
goweeder GoComics PRO Member said, less than a minute ago
@Cooncat
…..“Change” coming your way via “Global Climate Change” over the nextseveral hundred millennia …"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Global Climate Change” is happening right now — in the course of a lifetime.W don’t know how bad it’s going to get or when the point of no return will be reached. Even if you don’t believe it, you’d better start paying attention to it.
As a geologist, I always laugh when people say they’ll do something that lasts forever, or a certain problem will never happen again. You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
Early on, my wife told me she’d be ready in “a little while.” I asked her to be more precise, because in my line of work a little while is a million years.
Rocks exposed to the weather really don’t last all that long. Chemical reactions and mechanical actions destroy those which are exposed.Really, in a few hundred or thousand years at most, given the presence of plant life, that one’s a goner.
phylum almost 9 years ago
yeah…time is relative…after you have endured another frigid day…..i do query…will the warm heat of summer ever come…..but if you are a rock i guess it does not matter…
peter almost 9 years ago
If you’ve been around for a billion or so years (see the beginning of the week), a day is a blink of an eye, and a season is but a sigh.
emptc12 almost 9 years ago
Throwing out a Whiffle Ball thought, I wonder if the minerals in this boulder are somewhat super conductive, so that the colder it gets the more intelligent it is? Relatively speaking.If some rocks have awareness, what tales they could tell of its ephemeral surroundings! Crystals can hold a lot of data, and if it could be downloaded for viewing …
mourdac Premium Member almost 9 years ago
The rock endures more like ice ages, individual days and years don’t register much.
angelfiredragon almost 9 years ago
This is exactly why most humans wouldn’t want to live forever, imagine if the average human life span was just a mere 10,000 years…to think you’d likely have to work 9,000 years of that before you retire…that is unless you win the lottery, invest wisely and get rich or you save a portion of your paycheck for a few thousand years and get a few million by then.
Me personally, hell would be an eternity having to work at a crappy job with no way to quit or get fired.
goweeder almost 9 years ago
@Cooncat
…..“Change” coming your way via “Global Climate Change” over the nextseveral hundred millennia …"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Global Climate Change” is happening right now — in the course of a lifetime.W don’t know how bad it’s going to get or when the point of no return will be reached. Even if you don’t believe it, you’d better start paying attention to it.
dutchs almost 9 years ago
As a geologist, I always laugh when people say they’ll do something that lasts forever, or a certain problem will never happen again. You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
Early on, my wife told me she’d be ready in “a little while.” I asked her to be more precise, because in my line of work a little while is a million years.
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction almost 9 years ago
Rocks exposed to the weather really don’t last all that long. Chemical reactions and mechanical actions destroy those which are exposed.Really, in a few hundred or thousand years at most, given the presence of plant life, that one’s a goner.