The purpose of your life and the origin of our universe.

[bjdhjy888]

There are billions of earth-sized planets in our milky way.
There are billions of milky way-sized galaxies in our known universe.
Ain't this mind-blowing?
We're like ants in a giant hall, working to survive, while suffering from illness, wars, etc sh!t...
man, this is sad.
 
 

[Mr.B]

Oh dear...
This thread can only spiral down hill quickly.   

[Brumby]

There are billions of earth-sized planets in our milky way.
There are billions of milky way-sized galaxies in our known universe.
Ain't this mind-blowing?

It is ... plus beautiful, inspiring, fascinating and ours to embrace.

We're like ants in a giant hall, working to survive, while suffering from illness, wars, etc sh!t...
man, this is sad.

My friend ... the glass is not half empty - it is half full.  Look at filling it (and your life) with more.  Don't sit back and wait for it to evaporate.

[Electro Detective]

People looking above and beyond, thinking too deep about it, are wasting good thought time on Earth
and missing or not appreciating fully what's around them here and now

It's a short time down here for everyone, and we have enough BS taught and flogged daily to digest   
without having to think about what may or may not be going on 'out there'
or wasting resources getting there.

I'll bet some dude on the other side 'out there' is posting the same thing on their version of the EEVblog forum,
and copping this same reply/replies 

as well as people in our local past looking up at the stars, wondering.. 
with the result a few dishonest enterprising asses made a big deal out of it, knocked up some believable sounding fairy tales to control masses of simpletons over the centuries,
and made a LOT of gold, silver, cash, and digital wealth from it, promoting LOTS of trouble like war and famine to keep business pumping 
rackets which their offspring inherited and still run today as legit easy money 'operations'   


This is why extra terrestrial aliens don't hang out here, and never will, because they can't fathom the insanity of it all,   
and planted 'FOREVER No Go Zone, WRONG WAY GO BACK!!!' signs and communications beacons in space for others to avoid. 

Stuff them anyway, be happy with what we have,
and not have to deal with 'advanced' smartass aliens, who fly around the universe like bored cashed up tourists,
most likely because they don't appreciate their own home turf,
and or looking for some cheap resources to rip off the defenceless humans,

or beam up a few and take some back for 'probing' 

[Ed.Kloonk]

Oh dear...
This thread can only spiral down hill quickly.   

Hi everybody.

 

[AlfBaz]

Feeling insignificant is something you get used to as you get older

[IanB]

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

[free_electron]

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications
Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know will be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination
Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation
At least there's pretty lights ... ( see first picture )

[SilverSolder]

Love is the answer.

(What was the question again?)

[BravoV]

At the end, its all about low temperature chemical reactions at the surface on earth, and will stop once it reached equilibrium if there is no space colonization, or just wait till the sun goes bang/expand and roast everything.

Like a really faint blip in pico or femto seconds at universe's clock.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Love is the answer.

(What was the question again?)

I thought the answer was 42.

 

[Nominal Animal]

What would you do if you thought you had found some answers, but could only express them as pseudo-spiritual waffling?
Some answers are such that before you find them yourself, they sound like inane crap and make no sense.

Keep looking.

[blacksheeplogic]

I'm here to collect calculators.

[Homer J Simpson]

An AvE perspective

[daqq]

We're like ants in a giant hall, working to survive, while suffering from illness, wars, etc sh!t...

Yes, that is part of it. We are also enjoying life occasionally, doing something nice.

man, this is sad.

Here, try this:

Might make you happier, might make you more sad.

I like to think of things this way:
On a cosmic scale we do not matter. There is no grand reference point which judges worthiness or 'mattering'. All worth and mattering is relative to the observer. If nothing matters than anything can matter.
If you enjoy growing potatoes, or collecting and restoring vintage calculators, or creating the perfect 10.000000V reference, then don't worry about the fact that it doesn't matter from a cosmic point of view. It matters to you and it makes you happier. Do it, try it.

[Ed.Kloonk]

[SilverSolder]

[...]
If you enjoy growing potatoes, or collecting and restoring vintage calculators, or creating the perfect 10.000000V reference, then don't worry about the fact that it doesn't matter from a cosmic point of view. It matters to you and it makes you happier. Do it, try it.

But it does matter from a cosmic point of view -  the universe is observing itself growing potatoes, restoring calculators, and creating perfect references!

[SiliconWizard]

Humans have been pondering that question for a very long time. Probably for as long as the different human species, as we define them, have existed.

With our current knowledge, there's still not much of an answer to that, except that there's quite possibly no answer, so maybe we should just stop asking.

[SilverSolder]

Something to do on a starry night...  around a campfire...

[blacksheeplogic]

But it does matter from a cosmic point of view -  the universe is observing itself growing potatoes, restoring calculators, and creating perfect references!

I don't see the point in growing potatoes unless your Irish, and why in the world would creating perfect references be at all important to the universe? It's like trying to make a case that TEA'ers collect useful stuff - ain't going to happen.

[Electro Detective]

Any closet Flat Earthers lurking on EEVblog to get this post pumping past Page 1 ? 

[blacksheeplogic]

Any closet Flat Earthers lurking on EEVblog to get this post pumping past Page 1 ? 

The Hollow Earthers are far more entertaining.

[Mechatrommer]

Garry Wills is much wiser than most... but he's not quite there yet, hopefully he'll have enough time to reach the destination...

[tggzzz]

There are billions of earth-sized planets in our milky way.
There are billions of milky way-sized galaxies in our known universe.
Ain't this mind-blowing?
We're like ants in a giant hall, working to survive, while suffering from illness, wars, etc sh!t...
man, this is sad.
 

This was done and dusted 42(!) years ago, by Zaphod Beeblebrox and his trip through the Total Perspective Vortex Analyser.

[donotdespisethesnake]

"What is the purpose of life?" One of the Big Three questions.

It's become clear that life has no purpose, it just is what it is, and that situation is disappointing to a lot of people who feel the need for a purpose.

The interesting question to me is why people think that life needs a purpose, and when that thought first appeared in our evolutionary history. As far as we know, other animals do not worry about having a purpose. It will be interesting to see if advanced AI starts asking the same existential questions we do, and maybe is a better sign of intelligence than the Turing test.