God is a dick.

A faster light speed wouldn't make a difference, since she made the universe 96 billion light years wide.

Something tells me this isn't a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it's probably going to be a very strange place.
- Indeed, but the way the math for expansion works is that there is something called a Hubble horizon and that makes it impossible to ever reach the edge, since it is moving away from us faster than light. (The limit doesn't apply to the expansion of space-time).
  Quite a nifty solution by the Supreme Programmer to avoid us hitting the limits of the simulation. I couldn't have designed it better.
- Good thing there isn't one since we probably live in a donut.
- Hey I hear there’s a nice restaurant out there
Tell me all your thoughts on God 'cause I would really like to meet her
Disclaimer: To any higher power listening, I am not done living and do not want to meet God/a god immediately. There's still plenty of candy left in this piñata.
- blows raspberry
  _Willem
  ^Defoeeee
Stupid relative distance measurements ruining all our fun

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick but out by us it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point, we go around every two hundred million years and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed thereis. So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on earth.

Gotta appreciate the classics.
You lost me at miles
Edit: /s for brevity
- Same. Miles per second? What the hell kinda unit is that? Over here, we use Texases per lamb's tail shakes.

And to add the cherry on top, should you ever reach his arbitrary speed limit, it distorts time itself. Even if you flew through space at c for a little weekend getaway, you'd return to a now foreign world only to find time had skipped forward +2,000 years, your entire family and social circles long dead from old age with societal and technical advancements beyond what you could have ever thought possible, completely isolating you. You're now doomed to live in an unfamiliar world where not a single human speaks your language nor can they relate to you in any meaning way.

AKA, gods speeding ticket.

I have a solution for this: When you travel somewhere, travel with everyone's mind at light speed. You see we think about lightspeed wrong. It's meant for whole species to migrate. Not 1 individual.
Another alternative is just take a snapshop of everyone's minds at that point, then let them continue living even with your snapshot. When you return you pick back off where you left off. Living in your own dimension. The other dimension is long gone but you miss nothing.

We don't know how big is the universe beyond the observable universe.

What is observable is constrained by cause and effect. To see something, information must come from there to us. That cause and effect relationship cannot happen faster than lightspeed.
We therefore have no evidence for anything other than the observable universe. Claims about anything else run into Russell's teapot issues. We can speculate, but it's ultimately nothing more than a story.
- The observable universe is constantly expanding as the passage of time allows light to reach us from more and more distant parts of the universe. So it's less "we don't know what's outside" and more like (to a certain extent) "we have to wait and see." And there's nothing we've seen to indicate that these external regions that are being revealed are anything but more of the same kinds of things in our inner region of the observable universe.
- Bro doesn't believe in dark matter because he can't see it
Yeah, but we can estimate. I'm confident it's at least 11 in size.

Light speed is a "you must be this clever to participate" barrier to becoming an interstellar species, that's all. Even if it's not breakable, it just means you gotta be able to plan hundreds or thousands of years into the future.

We can hardly plan 5 years into the future, let alone hundreds of thousands... It'd be pretty sad if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that everyone is too stupid to participate.
- everyone is too stupid to participate
  if they are anything like us, its probably for the best.
It's not "just" the speed of light though, light is limited by the speed of information, also known as the speed of causality. If you were to somehow exceed that, then your future light cone becomes very messed up, and effect starts to be possible before cause.
- In other words, literal time travel
Just put a bunch of dna on an asteroid. Nature will figure the rest of it out.
- Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
I guess us Americans are out...

99% of the universe is nothing. Wouldn't that really be the dick move?

The universe is basically 100% empty. An atom is more than 99.9999999 empty space.
- Say that again when a brick made of 99,9999999% empty space hits you!
  (Mustn't be a hard hit, maybe more like a soft touch. For science, you know.)
- Yeah, I rounded down.
- wow. never thought of this in that way.
- How much of a proton or electron is empty space?
99% of the universe is nothing.
Worst video game developer ever.
- Clearly it was made by Bethesda.
Broad as an ocean, deep as a puddle. Oh great, more rock.

And sending a space ship at a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We've got some work to do climbing up the Kardashev scale before we're anywhere close to that kind of travel.

Read this and thought it had something to do with the Kardashians.

Hear me out. It doesn't even matter that it's 96 billion light-years away if you're traveling at light speed. Because if you can travel at light speed, time would be frozen for you relative to earth time.

So if you're in a spaceship traveling at light speed to your destination, it would feel like you gotten there in an instant.

Also, due to length contraction, at light speed the universe isn’t 96 billion light years wide, it’s 0 anything wide.
At light speed there is no time and no distance, the origin is the destination. You won’t even experience a single tick of Planck time to get there. Instantaneous.
- Doesn't it also require infinite energy to do so if "the thing" has mass at all?
  ie. Our description of physics breaks down at such extremes, so in truth, we have no fuckin' idea, just a best guess? (Thus far)
- AFAIK the observable universe is limited by the parts of space which expand faster than the speed of light.
  Some billions of years later and we might have not seen other galaxies at all, maybe we are lucky.

When the game is open world but no fast travel or mounts.

Do you believe that the wide expanses of our planet Earth were crafted for the common ant to explore?

There is no evidence to suggest our planet or any animals on it are crafted.
- Of course, but I'm trying to work within the established framework of the meme here

Don't forget the part where it's constantly expanding. So it's 96B ly so far.

Wait, now that I think about it, the observable universe have precisely that length because the speed of light, doesn't it?

Its a combination of the speed of light and how inflation has varied the size of the universe. Light's only been able to travel about 14 billion light years since the universe began but those further regions used to be closer so light from them was already part of the way here when they vanished over the cosmic horizon.

There is idea in the three body problem novels:

The mere though of that is dreadful to me.

Dark Forest Theory is probably wrong. In-universe, the series unknowingly undermines it with communication tech that can transmit instantaneously. That would take away the assumption that civilizations can't effectively communicate over interstellar distances and build trust.
In reality, it's something of an extension of the "every individual for themselves" mindset of evolution--something White Supremacists have loved. Kin Selection Theory does away with that. There is a basis for building trust and working together within evolution. The precursor ideas were even done in Peter Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" over a century ago. Kin Selection Theory put a mathematical foundation on it.
I like the book series as literature, and the Netflix series has been OK so far (not great, but OK). Liu Cixin himself, however, has some really shitty opinions that come through the text.
- Humanity stands on the brink of self-destruction because we have yet to overcome the primitive, selfish aspects of our nature. I have to believe that any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel—without having destroyed itself along the way—must have achieved a certain level of cooperative enlightenment.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Anything capable of altering fundamental physical parameters like that will be unknowable to us. We'd be like bacteria are to a human.
Or maybe they were just bored, and wanted to make a cool new celestial object called a black hole.

Let's say we reset everything today, wipe out everyone's memory. God will be forgotten, science will still exist. People will figure out science sooner or later.

If I'm being honest, I think people will figure out god too. All it is is a question.
"Did someone do all this?"
It's a reasonable question. Easy to ask, hard to answer. Attempt to identify this variable "someone", and people will eventually land on some kind of god.
- Yes, but the point is that every time god is "rediscovered", the form of that god changes as does the scripture surrounding that new religion.
  Science, for the most part, wouldn't diverge from our current understanding of it, because it is ultimately our understanding of the world and its fuctions.
- I mean you can answer that today lmao.
Science laws won't cease to exist, but if you wipe out everyone's memory, their knowledge of that science will cease to exist - so they'll have to figure it out from zero - and there's no guarantee that there won't be another placeholder in a sense (i.e. what religions have been historically) for what's yet to understand.
Edit: maybe it's more accurate to say science laws would cease to exist, but won't cease to work; they would cease to exist in a formulated way (in that hypothetical memory loss) since they were put together by humans.
- I think the intent is more “Scientific discoveries could be rediscovered, your One True Religion wouldn’t be.”
God will always exist before science, it is necessary to rationalize existence to have any hope of living long enough to develop science.
If there's no meaning to what you're doing, there's no point in dealing with suffering. Only through extreme alienation from suffering can you start to have a non divine world view.

Its probably for the best.

If humans are able to get to another planet with life on it we would probably do horrific unspeakable things to the aliens.

- Dispensing freedom you mean.
- Aliens pulling out literal fireswords
  "Okay."
I feel like I would treat my Togruta wife very well ;-;
Real talk tho, humans will eventually reach the stars, being negative/nihilist about it and saying it's better if it doesn't happen is dangerous because people like Elon/Donald will definitely do horrible things if people with remorse and morals aren't involved/ already established there / the one's initiating
Not saying you're nihilist, but I go to Uni in SF and everyone is so anti-imperialism that they think any form of colonization (even on a dead planet like Mars) is bad and it's pretty grating.
Elon should not be the one who decides how the land/living conditions are set up
- I wouldn't have any problem with a completely dead planet being colonized by humanity but I absolutely do not trust humanity as a whole when it comes to a planet with life on it we don't even respect our own species much less other ones history has shown this over and over again.
  even if it is an inevitability doesn't mean that it is positive just because it was inevitable that nuclear weapons got invented doesn't mean that It's a good idea for us to have that technology I would rather nukes not exist.
- The fact is that any manned vehicle capable of interplanetary travel is by the nature of the energies involved, also a weapon of mass destruction. A spaceship is a weapon in the same way a car can be a weapon.
  So either you massively restrict access to this technology, or you create a system of surveillance and defense that is so pervasive and effective that it makes 1984 look benign, OR you just say fuck everyone else and use that weapon to remove yourself from range of everybody else's weapons.
  Proliferation is an existential problem for anyone in range.

I mean, have you seen the human back, fuckin psychopath LMAO

Nah, we can bend space. Sam Neill checkmates God.

Take a shortcut through hell, eh?
- For those of us who work retail, yeah..
- That movie is about the first time humanity tried to enter the Warp without a Gellar field.

To be clear it's lightspeed in space time, we "just" need to get rid of time to conquer the space.

When putting together an outfit always remove the last accessory you put on.

Are you trying to get my pants off?

This is assuming that the universe is for us. It's probably not for anything, but to the extent that it is for a kind of life, it might not be us.

There's a bit of skipped step here. Just how do you get to the speed of light when it requires an infinite amount of fuel, with diminishing returns on the quantity of fuel you have?

Well we can't assume we know physics completely yet (or within bounds of the question) something down the road may open an idea or ability to generate more power than we know what to do with. If this was a game we may only been on the first or second step of a technology tree. Or we just aren't able to travel that far realistically, we have to overcome our idea of our species being singular and send out generation ships that go for ages (in human time) to explore more as a species, even if the originators (Earth humans) may never know the outcome.
Of course if we discover that much power we'd likely annihilate ourselves anyways, least with our current society.
I do mostly agree but I try and think of other possibilities since the universe is so vast.

Is Planck time even proof of anything let alone god? I mean, even if some glowing entity descended from the clouds and declared, “Behold, I am God,” would that actually convince anyone? We’d just have another person claiming to be god -- which, let’s be honest, is not exactly a rare event on this planet.
What even counts as sufficient proof of God? A signed affidavit? A peer-reviewed miracle?A TED Talk with miracles? The whole “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing kind of ruins the whole premise. Realistically, we’ll never have proof. At best, we can conclude that proof of God is permanently out of reach.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. I am God.
It’s a joke bruh. Relax.
And I’ll just say too that science has explained many things, sure. But to say it’s explained “how everything got here” is so far from the truth I’m not even going to try and argue here.
If the universe is infinite in size it is a statistical requirement for a god, or a being that has ability we would consider to be godlike, must exist somewhere.
Here I am
- I can't disprove you're god, so you must be!

Here for the comments to see if there's a workaround.

It really is a cruel joke.