All these memes about wanting to die: You could have been a chunk of ice orbiting Saturn, but you lucked into the single greatest thing the universe has to offer, sentient life.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 months ago
What if it includes the entire universe and the chances of being a human, on Earth, are just super incredibly slim?
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
psoul@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well these days, I’d rather be ice around Saturn. The view must be amazing
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How do we know sentience is the greatest? It could be peaceful just orbiting.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You wouldn’t know your alive though or even exist. You would just be.
justsquigglez@leminal.space 5 months ago
Sounds like heaven to me, most of my troubles come from knowing what my situation is and how powerless I am.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Even if it’s just Earth, if we assume there is a degree of randomness in species assignment then you’ve got decent odds of reincarnating as an ant:
We conservatively estimate total abundance of ground-dwelling ants at over 3 × 10^15^ and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 10^15^ individuals. 1
And of course, massively high odds of being a bacteria. There are probably ~40 trillion bacteria living just in your body right now:
They estimate that the range of bacterial cells goes from about 30 to 50 trillion in each individual. 2
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now add the ocean. Yeah, we all spend billions of years coming back as bacteria
DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean that can explain a lot. I’ve always been a creature of great inertia, more like a tectonic plate than a human being
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I always admire your name
DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And the same to you, good sir!