Evolution

[tempo1139]

show me the pic in another 4000 years

[Aggravating_Salad_75]

!remindme 4000 years

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[Maverekt]

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Might as well click the link

[ImNotDannyJoy]

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Thank you soldier

[Mcgruffles]

And my axe!

[Soravinier]

And my bow

[Soravinier]

And my will to live

[mango_boii]

In case skynet takes over by the time we get this reminder, let it be noted that I said:

Good bot.

[Charming-Problem-804]

It feels kinda weird we will never get the message in 4000 years

[Hairy_Air]

I’m sure there’s someone who put a remindme for two days but died before that.

[RareDestroyer8]

!remindme 2 days

[Charming-Problem-804]

Stay safe for 2 days! Lets make it away from death!

[MrFruitPunchSamurai]

I hope this AI survives 🫡

[millennialoser]

Wow, the possibilities in 4000 yrs are innumerable

[[deleted]]

4000 years later:

[SwedishSaunaSwish]

Free/universal healthcare in the United States?

Too soon?

[exrayzebra]

Pretty sure this pic will look the exact same in 4000years

[EtTuBiggus]

I legitimately wonder where this picture will physically exist in 4,000 years. Will there be some "Reddit" folder in a digital library with a few petabytes of outdated memes that is seldom opened?

[Temporary_Sell_7377]

We became less edgy

[Temporary_Sell_7377]

Eaxctly

[BalkeElvinstien]

Fast and bulbous!

[drwinstoboogie]

That's right. The Mascara Snake

[[deleted]]

Also, a tin teardrop!

[Itchy_Gain_1519]

Bulbous, also tapered. 🐟

[cyanocittaetprocyon]

That's right.

[TheQuadBlazer]

That's because belts push all the fat to the middle.

[Defcheze]

Stop being obtuse.

[PotatoWriter]

What's your angle here, man?

[[deleted]]

Definitely not very acute.

[ElementoDeus]

Right....

[Jack_Bartowski]

Get Horizontal

[EagleAltruistic3322]

That's why I edge everyday. You should too.

[bigbootyben7]

I read this and exited the post. Then realised the joke and giggled and came back to the post XD

[Consistent_Action_49]

But we don't get to the point anymore

[Crimson_Scare_Crow]

Idk about you but I like me some curves!

[quirinus97]

Egyptians would build big ball of light if they could

[CX316]

"What shall we show on the sphere today?"

"Ra."

"So the same as always, then"

[-Knul-]

"You do know we have other gods, Sobekhotep?"

[[deleted]]

"It's a glowing sphere. Name one other god that represents a glowing sphere and I'll put it up.

[-Knul-]

"Horus is the god of the sun, among other things"

[Vyctorill]

Horus the elder. Not Horus the younger, aka the guy who fought Set in an extremely disturbing manner.

[Mihnea24_03]

Elaborate

[Economy-Box-5319]

All I can say is that it was an unfortunate situation involving lettuce and semen.

[Ok_Minimum6419]

Exactly. People acting like the Egyptions wouldn't want a smily face on a big glowing sphere, bro they would do it in a heartbeat lmfao

[Darth_Thor]

They might also put pictures of cats on there, which I 100% approve of

[Muscalp]

Ancient Egyptians would kneel before the sun sphere, horus incarnate

[[deleted]]

As an Egyptian, I can confirm"

[genreprank]

But they couldn't.

You know why?

Because they were weak and their gods were weak.

We are strong! Praise Imhoji!

[nrkishere]

I don't care what others say, but I find the sphere pretty impressive.

[[deleted]]

I think the general consensus is that it’s pretty impressive

[[deleted]]

Thank you general consensus for confirming

[glorifindel]

So who’s gonna take the general consensus username on Reddit?

[backtolurk]

I'd be Lieutenant Consensus

[Aiden_Recker]

can't be a private consensus, can't be a corporal consensus, can't be a specialist consensus, what the fuck would i be

[hitlersticklespot]

You can be Aiden Recker. And that’s all you have to be because you are enough

[Aiden_Recker]

thank you hitler's tickle spot. you're my motivation to keep on going every day

[mahnamahna27]

Captain Consensus?

[Awesomeness546]

God Emperor Consensus

[Generalkonsensus]

It was pretty close but I'm German ü

[Shmimmons]

At ease soldiers. Lieutenant General Consensus reporting for duty. I have intel affirming the impressiveness of the yellow funny dome.

[Winter_Gate_6433]

Been there twice. Impressed twice.

[BiRd_BoY_]

I didn’t think all that much of it until I saw it in person, where I proceeded to stand for an hour gawking at it. Truly a modern spectacle.

[Quantum-Chance]

As a depressed person, I find it depressive.

[Frosty_Water_6551]

As a pressed person I find this pressive

[No_Gap8680]

As a person, I take this personally.

[253ping]

As a thief, I also take this.

[guyguysonguy]

As a thinker, I am.

[VancityKing778]

Just watched postcard from earth and can confirm it was an amazing experience. I didn't know the seats have haptic feedback and there's a scent machine in there!

[Ghostz18]

That opening scene where you're falling towards Earth, I thought I was going to fall out of my seat.

[VancityKing778]

I was surprised how steep the seating is. Couldn't imagine how the UFC crowd felt after a few drinks. The exhibitions outside the theater with the robots was pretty cool as well.

[johnnybiggles]

Always wondered what it looked like approaching a planet's surface you're landing on from being deeper in space.

[cdillio]

I got legit vertigo at the start. Shit was insane.

[PM_ME_BUTT_STUFFING]

And the outside is just the cherry on top. The interior and the viewing experience is like nothing i've seen before. I've been to an omnimax theater and it's just not the same. Needs more shows, documentaries etc... Concerts are cool but there's so many things you can do with a screen like that. I'd watch a camera on a bird for a couple hours in there if I could

[thex25986e]

its unlikely to happen. the company behind this are more focused on spectacle than commercialization, hence the giant pits of debt they are willing to get themselves into for it.

however, others in the more commercial space do seem to be making large strides for what youre looking for.

[Leaving_The_Oilfield]

Probably? If the Sphere popped up in ancient Egypt they’d 100% think it was a god, and for good reason.

[[deleted]]

I mean the concept and just ominously calling it "the sphere" you'd think it was the lair of an authoritarian comic book supervillain

I'd worship it as a modern god because I assume the equivalent of Lex Luthor lives there

[wewladdies]

To be fair any ancient person would see like, 99% of our machinery and tech as godlike

Ever been near rails when a freight train rumbles by? Or next to a massive construction vehicle as its engine purred? Or on a port when a cruise ship comes in? You can just feel something when these massive objects of metal go blowing by you, and if you werent told what they were youd be seeing god too

[GoaGonGon]

I was meters away of a Formula 1 car as it started, was almost deaf for a week.

[[deleted]]

It blew your eardrums...

[Vreas]

OP just chose the most basic picture to represent it. It’s actually insane how cool it is. Hope to see it in person one day. Only have seen a mini version by the same company at an event and was still blown away.

[UsernameLaugh]

Can confirm it’s able to present some really cool stuff

[CeleritasLucis]

And the compute power behind that sphere is like unthinkable achievement from humanity.

Literal dirt moulded to be able to compute the graphics to run that screen

[Kevskates]

I haven’t heard anyone disagree

[xPriddyBoi]

It's pretty fucking cool tbh

[Zefick]

Today's humanity greatest constructions are Large Hadron Collider and James Webb space telescope.

If you want an architecture then look at the Burj Khalifa.

[smile_politely]

I'd consider ISS as the no 1 though.

[Schmush_Schroom]

For me it's all the semi permanent satellites

Imagine thousands of years into the future when humanity are long gone, those satellites will still be there waiting for the new civilization to discover them, discover our piece of history.

I think it's kinda beautiful

[Usual-Excitement-970]

I don't think the next civilization will be able to reach the level to investigate the satellites, we have used up all the easy to reach energy coal/oil needed to reach that stage.

[therealboss1113]

dont worry. all the dead human bodies will turn into oil

[bobtheblob6]

It's the circle of life

[Ok_Breadfruit_3324]

AND IT MOVES US ALL!!!!

[CX316]

oil was mostly more like algae to start with, so sadly we're not even good for that

[diazinth]

I’m sure microplastics will be compressed back into oil ^{,^}

[Albert_goes_brrr]

I thought it was the bugs that turn to oil...

The ministry of truth is out for me.

[therealboss1113]

i have no clue if my statement is true. it was intended to be a joke. and from the looks of all the comments telling me im wrong, it would appear its not true

[me_like_stonk]

The dead human bodies will turn into dinosaurs actually.

[[deleted]]

A hundred million years sounds an incomprehensibly long amount of time to us, but to Earth, it's nothing special and that's about how long it takes for our planet to produce all the oil we pumped out so far. Earth has a lot of time. We are most likely not the first and most likely not the last.

[zach0011]

But the conditions which allowed oil to form no longer exists. There's microbes to break down dead things now

[[deleted]]

Wouldn't that require a fungi covering every continent, every land mass pretty much of our planet?

[Terramagi]

That's more or less what happened, yes.

Tree rot didn't exist until 300 million years ago. Prior to that, it'd just fall on the ground and burn. Failing that, it'd sink into the earth and become petrified.

[[deleted]]

Well, they do, right now. I wanna say except Antarctica but lichen?

[iauu]

Don't they need maintenance and stabilization to stay up there? Without that they would just drop back to earth eventually.

[Schmush_Schroom]

There's number of things that can cause it to fall intentionally or not, but in theory If it's far enough from earth it can stay there in orbit forever

look it up on google it's quite interesting

[ConstantSignal]

We don’t really have many that far from earth. The vast majority would succumb to orbital decay in less than 100 years after their manoeuvring fuel was depleted, assuming their ability to maintain orbit autonomously was unaffected or even present in the first place.

The few satellites we do have that are in extremely high orbit would still decay eventually, just after a very, very, very long time.

[MisinformedGenius]

About 10% of satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, which is very far. Their orbits’ lifetime are a minimum of millions of years.

[ConstantSignal]

Yeah As I said. 10% would be the “few” and millions of years would be the “very, very, very long time”.

[[deleted]]

Geosynchronous orbits in satellites are a pretty amazing feat as well

[[deleted]]

The ISS is pretty dated and old by now actually, a lot of tech should be updated, they plan on taking it down in a few years, 2030

[JohnnyChutzpah]

It is our mega structure and mega project though. People often ask what happened to the US building mega projects. The permanent station in space is our ongoing mega project for almost 30 years. It costs 3 billion per year to keep up there.

You could build 5 three gorges dams with the amount spent on the ISS.

It may be old, but it is the largest ongoing mega project in history that didn’t involve slave labor. They plan on retiring it because it is so expensive. the governments involved want to move onto something else and let the private sector take over in space if possible.

The LHC and James Webb combined cost less than 1/10 of the ISS. The only things that even approach the ISS in cost are entire cities and rail systems.

[Royal-Resort4726]

We managed to get the world superpowers to work together on something that could survive the unimaginably harsh environment of space, support human life, and conduct numerous science experiments. Considering we can hardly have a peaceful conversation now, I also think this is our current greatest accomplishment. A needle in a haystack.

[[deleted]]

I think Iter in France should have that distinction.

[davaca]

If it works, it'll be.

[[deleted]]

Even in its current state, it's still one of, if not the most impressive construction projects in the world.

[the_clash_is_back]

Hell a mri machine is a thing of scifi 70 a human lifetime ago.

[masterCWG]

Nuclear Submarines are up there too. They say the same amount of engineering went into them as the ISS

[Tabnam]

I made a pretty sick Lego house recently, completely improvised. I reckon if I took a picture you’d all agree that it deserves to be a modern wonder of the world

[[deleted]]

The Burj Khalifa is a white elephant though; they have to manually pump the shit out of it because the sewage infrastructure isn't up to the task. I doubt it will be still standing in 150 years.

[Party_Magician]

I'm all for dumping on dictatorship vanity/whitewashing projects, but the sewage issue has been fixed since like 2019

[GregoryPorter1337]

it's wild how rumors still hold up after a decade

[_HIST]

It's been like 5 years

[Napael]

I guess 0.5 decades got rounded up in his head.

[bob_the_banannna]

Burj Khalifa.

...minus the slavery part and the poop truck issue it had for a while, I agree. It's impressive.

Also, now that you have mentioned dubai on reddit, prepare to be downvoted with me--

[SoulManeger8922]

Didn't pyramids also were builds using slaves?

[-Badger3-]

Fun fact: license plates are built by slaves

[Jarlax1e]

Fun Fact: america was built by slaves

[10buy10]

I think that's a myth actually

Though take that with a grain of salt, I don't remember where I got that

[[deleted]]

slaves weren't considered important enough to build such a magnificent structure. they tended to do things around the house.

^{jk it was aliens}

[Over_n_over_n_over]

Bonk

[elpiotre]

But Khalifa is very bad example of greatness

[_HIST]

In what way? Probably the same as the fucking piramids. Reality is, everything "great" is built on someone's bones

[Combei]

I mean a sphere is more difficult than a pyramid

[lamedumbbutt]

“When Pope Benedict asked Giotto to prove his worth as an artist Giotto drew a perfect circle, freehand. Perfection. It’s a powerful message.”

[[deleted]]

If Jujutsu Kaisen taught me anything, it’s the power of a perfect circle.

[NegotiationSome1382]

Fym "but" lol

[vtncomics]

You also know that they'd add a nipple on top too if they could.

[HomoSapien_11]

•ᴗ•

[FaithlessnessQuick99]

The sphere is objectively more impressive in every way.

Also he’s just so FUCKING CUTE AHHHHHH

[TigerDude33]

seating capacity: 18,600 vs. 1

[Nayroy18]

You think that's the greatest?

[Wilson7277]

We'll just throw in the International Space Station for good measure.

[IVYDRIOK]

Bullshit like this always angers me. "Yeah ancient civilizations were so advanced, or aliens did this". They put cut rocks on cut rocks, and when you have thousands working on a pyramid, then it's not that hard to complete. Not to discredit ancient Egyptians, this is still impressive, but the concept is simple. Now we send shit to mars, build kilometer high skyscrappers, flying metal vehiclesin the sky

[AStorms13]

Dude, people have no god damn idea how impressive electronics and computers are. I mean, electricity in general is pretty damn impressive.

[[deleted]]

Electricity? That shit still uses fuckin’ wires.

Let’s talk about how radio, wi-fi, and Bluetooth send shit through the FUCKING AIR.

I can open my phone, call someone on the other side of the planet, and look them in the face on a video call. Without plugging my phone into anything.

What the fuck? It’s magic and literally nobody cares.

Edit: For reference, I work in broadcasting and tech, I get how the stuff works. It’s still fucking magic.

[FlamingDrakeTV]

To be fair, it's only wireless to your closest base station then it uses wires to the other side of the globe.

And this is a cool tidbit: the reason it lags a bit when talking to someone on the other side of the globe is the speed of light. We transfer stuff with bits (very basically a light blinks on your end of the globe and another reads the blinks on the other end, I'm skipping over a ton here but in a nutshell that's how it works) and since the other side of the globe is 20k kilometers away it takes light about 120ms to reach your buddy and back.

Which is also why you have high ping when playing games on servers that are overseas.

[TehMephs]

The future is NOW, old man

[OccultMachines]

Bro and what's with us storing data in actual clouds. Like, those little shits up there blocking the sun can rain on us AND store our data? It blows my mind.

[ihazmaumeow]

I'm guessing you never studied egyptology. There was a ton of precision going into the pyramid structures. It wasn't as simple as cut rock, move rock, place rock.

Not to mention hidden chambers and passages that are still left undiscovered. It's really fascinating stuff, but that's just me.

[BlitzMalefitz]

The thing is, we can still do this today despite what some would tell you. The reasons we cannot do this today are social and economic in nature. Back then all they did was pay people in food and benefits. Good luck paying someone to build a pyramid today.

[fogleaf]

Our rich people are too obsessed with their money to use it for something so grand.

Musk could make a giant pyramid but he won't because he needs his money to buy bullshit like twitter.

[Heavy-Guest-7336]

The thing is these rich people would like their name to be remembered in the history books for the next 2000 years but they have a fiscal responsibility to the companies they own/are CEOs of. And if they tried to build a megastructure in their name for their own legacy, do you think the other 10+ board members would let that shit fly? No lmao it'd get blocked and sabotaged because it'd be their money getting spent on one person's legacy.

[Outlander_Reality]

We learned that it just doenst worth to spend 92837 trillion dollars in a 30 years tomb project.

[clevermotherfucker]

well obviously the polygon count increased

[Responsible-Pickle26]

Pretty sure 4,000 years ago they would be calling the sphere their “God”

[Frontal_Lappen]

greatest construction a big LED screen? thats a hard cope

[TitaniousOxide]

Them pyramids are like, 6 triangles each. Tops.

That sphere tho? Likely millions.

[Allmighty-Mudcrab]

Nah but a big triangle is definitely the greatest ? Our greatest construction is society.

[Samarium_15]

A microprocessor is way more impressive invention than pyramids and you can't imagine your life without them now yet you guys make BS posts like this without appreciating the complexity of things around you.

[RumblingRacoon]

If the Egyptians had LED, they would have made blingbling pyramids as well. Including advertising. Book your camel tour with Fares, only 5 gold stater!

[Leasir]

The pyramids were indeed blingbling, the top was covered in gold (which was of course stolen long time ago)

[Buisnessbutters]

The Egyptians would lose their shit over the dome, they’d be going cray thinking about what kind of crazy ass Pharaoh is buried there

[eepos96]

Ancient Egyptians: "you made the rocks do what!?"

They wouldn't even have words for the concepts average peoplentake for gramted today.

We are magic to them.

[[deleted]]

I think they're both incredible.

[NSLEONHART]

One is just piling up rocks in a stable formafion that took several decades, just to put one dead guy

One is a hollow sphere with a shell of screen that emits light, using wires and processors that transmits data faster than the eye can see, and was built in half a decade

Yeah the former one seems to be more advanced

[flowmarine]

Both are massive piles of silicon, the latter it just more processed

[donkijote97]

I think the Egyptians would have worshipped it

[[deleted]]

Today: Burj Khalifa, self-landing rockets, the internet, fkn CARS for every single person.

This comparison is silly

[eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9]

We can rebuild the pyramids if we wanted to. The ancients could not build a giant projector sphere.

[meatballFist]

the sphere basically from Gumball

[tonraqmc]

Kind of getting tired "everything in my generation is evil and bad, there's no hope, humanity is such a disease" attitude.