Now I know for a fact the Scientists have got this wrong ..

I find such conjecture sort of amusing. The chain of circumstances that took place which shaped life on earth as we know it are numerous, and if you remove just one, the whole thing can break down. OK, so assuming that these can be repeated elsewhere in the universe in one fashion or another, resulting in intelligent (and I use that word tongue in cheek) life, then by that link's assertion (and many others) you're talking tens of thousands of years for one-way communication. The chances that the sender and receiver have not yet annihilated themselves or have not been annihilated in some way are remote. Double that improbability for the chance that anyone will still be around to receive a reply.

Don't get me wrong; I believe in the possibility of other life in the universe, but think too much is expected from the idea, and to make such claims as in the title of that link is like saying the earth revolves around the sun. That theory and such conjectures as the one of this topic are based on our limited capacity to observe, and both assertions are equally sound. As soon as we invent the tools (e.g. as was in the case of the telescope disproving the earth being the center of the solar system) we're just having fun with numbers and ideas.
 
I was, but now I learned something of great value new today!
 
But in fact we later learn that Deep Thought wasn't such a perfect computer after all. First, the input and output queues had become out of sync so "42" wasn't the answer to "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?" Instead it was the answer to the previous question "What is 7 times 8?" Which gives you a REALLY good feeling for the other things involving Deep Thought.
 
I think that some of your notions fell apart the moment you brought in flashing stars and lasers - both visual effects whose efficacy will be limited by the snail's pace of light. Interesting that you think the universe is repetitive. Since it is moving away from everything at a faster and faster pace would it not have to collapse in on itself in order to begin again? One thing seems certain - that man's time will be no greater than the point at which our galaxy and Andromeda collide. You and I won't have to worry about that.
 
I've never heard of everything turning into energy at the end. Something has to happen in order to convert mass to energy so if you have anything you can point us to about that idea I'd like to read up on it.

A show hosted by Professor Brian Cox that I've seen (I watch all of his stuff; sometimes more than twice) postulated that at the end, the last star will burn out and the cycle (which is not complete in terms of turning 100% of one exploded star into other new objects in the cosmos) will end and there will be only darkness. Not to worry - we have a long wait - 1 followed by about 96 zeros. He also suggests the universe started and will end in what's known as the Big Rip. The farther apart things drift from each other, the less effect they have on nearby objects, and dark energy (or is it dark matter?) will fill the void.

If you saw the end of Men In Black where the alien was playing with universes as if they were marbles, that tells you all you need to know about how it all started and how it will end!
 
Depending on whose end-of-universe theories you follow, if the universe reaches the "entropy" death then it will be a more or less uniform, thin and cold gas cloud. Maybe slightly lumpy, with all the planets having been loosed from their stars because the stars dissipated.
 
Micron said:
One thing seems certain - that man's time will be no greater than the point at which our galaxy and Andromeda collide.
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Least of Earth's problems. The distance between stars is so great that the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda will be about them passing through each other then halting by gravity and merging. The probably of actual collisions, particularly on an outer spiral arm is very remote. There is a bigger risk of the Sun and its planets being ejected from the galaxy.

Either way, that event is still more than four billion years away. By then the Sun will be at the end of its life and swelling into a Red Giant if it hasn't already collapsed into a White Dwarf after engulfing Earth and charring it to a rocky crisp.

Long before then the Sun's power will have increased so much that all the water on Earth will have boiled away. This will happen within a billion years with life as we know it already long gone perhaps leaving only some kind of thermophile organisms if anything.

We would likely experience another large meteor impact on the scale of the C-T boundary Chixulub Event long before then if we don't manage to destroy ourselves even sooner.
 
Umm, the sun running out of fuel is estimated to begin in 5 billion years, so if the two galaxies will collide in 4 billion years then my doomsday scenario trumps yours! Regardless of whether or not there are any direct planetary collisions, their orbits just have to change enough to affect the earth in a negative way. Even just the loss of our moon will begin the end of life on earth.
 
Galaxiom said:
Least of Earth's problems. The distance between stars is so great that the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda will be about them passing through each other then halting by gravity and merging. The probably of actual collisions, particularly on an outer spiral arm is very remote. There is a bigger risk of the Sun and its planets being ejected from the galaxy.

Either way, that event is still more than four billion years away. By then the Sun will be at the end of its life and swelling into a Red Giant if it hasn't already collapsed into a White Dwarf after engulfing Earth and charring it to a rocky crisp.

Long before then the Sun's power will have increased so much that all the water on Earth will have boiled away. This will happen within a billion years with life as we know it already long gone perhaps leaving only some kind of thermophile organisms if anything.

We would likely experience another large meteor impact on the scale of the C-T boundary Chixulub Event long before then if we don't manage to destroy ourselves even sooner.
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Its sad to think this side of the universe will one day be dark. We better be off this rock by then. 🚀
 
It looks like scientists are playing around with statistics again. Of course there is no way (currently) of proving their findings.
 
Again, I point to the famous short story by Isaac Asimov, titled "The Last Question." You can Google it to find videos of people reading it. You might find a copy online that you can read. If you wonder about the end of the universe, this particular short story will tickle your fancy.
 
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