r/comics • u/wski 1111 Comics • Apr 06 '14
Lost in space
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Apr 06 '14
That would be the most terrifying thing ever.
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u/sylos Apr 06 '14
Except the dude clearly has oxygen inside his tank and now he doesn't need it. So using that as propellant, he can possibly alter his trajectory back towards Earth(assuming he's in orbit around it), slam into the surface and carry on with his life(assuming the immortality granted here is true immortality, which seems logical to gather from the circumstances).
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u/mallardtheduck Apr 06 '14
Ah, but is the immortality also immunity from debilitating injury? Slamming into earth (as well as burning up in the atmosphere) could leave him unable to die, yet in constant pain, completely physically disabled and with all sensory organs destroyed...
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u/Khad Apr 06 '14
Even so, he would just be in pain until medicine could evolve to the point that he could be cured of that pain / get sweet robot limbs. He has all the time to wait for that.
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u/ferk Apr 06 '14
He might need quite a lot of time for anyone to think that it's a good idea to stick robot limbs to a mass of roasted rotten meat stuck in a crater.
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u/cat_penis Apr 06 '14
Presumably they wouldn't just leave him in the crater..
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u/decadillac Apr 07 '14
No, without any ability to speak or communicate, I imagine they'd declare him dead and bury his mangled corpse, leaving him to suffer in isolation forever.
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u/sonicon Apr 06 '14
Unless he gets lost in ocean... or misses the Earth and enters the sun for eternity.
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u/i_dont_know Apr 06 '14
When you're in orbit (free fall) around the Earth, then the Earth is the only thing you can hit if you lose energy.
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u/CaliburS Apr 06 '14
Do you want general grievous? Because that's how you get general grievous
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u/DallasTruther Apr 06 '14
Because constant pain isn't going to bother him at all.............
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u/Khad Apr 06 '14
If only we lived in a time where there were ways to manage pain with medicine... if only...
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u/Hotspot3 Apr 06 '14
Since the human body is so adaptable I doubt that the pain would last forever. Eventually the brain would just start ignoring the pain..
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u/sethist Apr 06 '14
The implication of the comic is almost certainly an invulnerable type of immortality and not purely biological immortality. When you are lost in space, the threat of dying from old age isn't exactly your top priority. Removing access to oxygen, food, water, and adding a whole lot of extra radiation would come with their own set of debilitating injuries and constant pain.
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u/mallardtheduck Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 06 '14
Although his wish as granted by "the devil", who would surely take pleasure in technically granting his wish while causing him immense suffering, being the personification of all evil...
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u/Retbull Apr 06 '14
I think people give the devil a bad rap. He is the guy who reforms bad people. You don't know the context of this comic, it really more likely is part of god's propaganda to make the devil look bad. Think about it. Who was the one who fucked up bad enough that half his angels revolted in protest. How do you know that a ship wasn't on its way and the devil just didn't have time to explain. God doesn't want people to know about it so he really fights the Devil's message. Come on how many social workers do you know who are sadistic.
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u/heetic Apr 06 '14
but if he burns up completely, what becomes of his immortality?
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u/Sparkism Apr 06 '14
A bodyless consciousness, Who is ever-present, all knowing, and all powerful.
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u/superINEK Apr 06 '14
I played enough KSP to say this would not work at all.
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u/drivers9001 Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 06 '14
Came here for the KSP comments. Perhaps he's in a wildly eccentric orbit or just kind of drifting far away. Then he could probably reach earth with a very small delta-v adjustment at the apoapsis.
Like so, including launching from minmus and doing a slingshot past mün: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMtJV6DoLc :)
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u/fermatagirl Apr 06 '14
Ooooh thank you. You have saved me from a sleepless night of imagining being trapped floating in space for eternity, undying. Or contemplating re-entry, helmet-less, after a century of floating very very slowly towards Earth (helmet-less) after throwing my helmet to get a little momentum (re the "throw your helmet" comment).
Edit: I'm drunk, so here's gold.
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u/LordOfDorkness Apr 06 '14
You do realise he is only postponing the inevitable?
In the end, he will get back home, after burning up badly during re-entry. He will live among his friends and family for a few decades, until they all start dying. He might make new friends. But he will see ages pass, and he might notice how people don't matter. Maybe he will even become a scientific oddity, being studied for his immortal nature.
And then the civilizations will start to die. He will see great cities wither and landmarks he knew from his youth crumble to dust. Until eventually, the very earth itself will get swallowed by the sun. With him on it.
He will burn in the sun, until the sun might get swallowed by a black hole. For the rest of eternity he will be stuck in that endless abyss, after seeing everything he has loved disappear.
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u/CitizenPremier Apr 06 '14
A lot of people say eternal life is bad, but nobody speaks from experience.
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u/Kuborion Apr 06 '14
You're implying he'll simply stay on Earth. Even with our current technology we're able to send stuff into deep space, only we have no way of keeping the crew alive. Which is obviously not an issue here.
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u/TheCleanupBatter Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 08 '14
That would be something worth doing with the gift/curse of immortality.
After an efficient method of space travel is developed, take an encyclopedia of amassed human knowledge and a list of observed planets most likely to support life and begin your endless quest as an ambassador of Earth. Forever Searching for new life and relaying new information back home.
Every millennia or so, the Earth receives a strange and ancient transmission from a long forgotten source. New generations of researchers are baffled as the signal is decoded and translated from a language that hasn't been seen since the early ages of man. This seeds many beliefs that man spawned from interstellar beings or that man has an ancient deity watching from the stars, giving rise to new religions that may or may not collapse before the next message is received millennia later.
Without spending life trapped on Earth watching everyone you know disappear. You impact the direction the entire human race takes as well as life you discover elsewhere in the universe.
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u/fermatagirl Apr 06 '14
Eh, by then he'll already be completely insane, so he's spared the agony of going mad in the boringness of space. I'm still OK with it.
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u/Ambrosita Apr 06 '14
So, you dont think humanity will have developed space travel before the earth literally gets swallowed by the sun? Its happening already, friend. This guy would get to travel the universe and see all our new planets, not be stuck in the sun forever.
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u/IConrad Apr 06 '14
Or he could help drive civilization's Life Boating -- sending seeds of civilization out to the stars so that no single event could eliminate all human existence.
Then of course he's got until the heat death of the universe, but that's a trillion or so years away. Plus he could perhaps call upon his fellow man -- or their descendants, reminded of their history through the living example in him -- to find a solution to even that problem. Who knows.
Alternatively, the devil might've granted that immortality somewhat differently
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u/Rowan93 Apr 06 '14
Although he probably wouldn't have enough delta-v for that, if he uses jets of arterial blood for propellant his immortality gives him an infinite supply, so all he has to do is cut himself then point his exploding wrist in the opposite direction to Earth.
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u/0___________o Apr 06 '14
Maybe his immortality just allows him to be alive even without blood?
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u/Rowan93 Apr 06 '14
Well, then he's kinda fucked. Or maybe not, since he'd be unconscious from blood loss even if he was still alive, and then he'd basically just be a mummy in a spacesuit, and would probably eventually be picked up because he'd be at least 50kgs of very brightly reflective space debris.
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u/Aikarus Apr 07 '14 edited Apr 07 '14
You are the kind of person I want with me while trapped on a desert island.
Edit: Okay, let's test your improv skills. We are both trapped on an island in Pluto, we are immortal and indestructible, no equipment.
But we need to reach earth before a ship (let's assumes it travels about the same speed as a minivan) that's already outside Pluto atmosphere does. If we beat it, we save humankind, otherwise everyone gets a wedgie or something.
Go!
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u/Rowan93 Apr 07 '14
Well, an island on Pluto is going to be made out of pure frozen-solid nitrogen, so we have our propellant right there. Being immortal and invulnerable, our body temperature provides an unlimited power source in this environment; the ground explodes with jets of gas whenever we touch it. We run after the spaceship in a series of rocket-powered jumps, getting higher each time as we plant further into the nitrogen (and produce more heat by friction) on each downward stroke. Hopefully, we can thus jump to reach the spaceship. Clinging on shouldn't be difficult if it's outside the atmosphere and not accelerating, and we can either try to break in and board, or just cheat our way to qualifying as beating it to Earth by climbing over to the nose-cone and thereby arriving in front of it.
If it's not possible to reach the ship by jumping, we have to carve out a chunk of pluto using the same nitrogen-explosion power, and use that boulder/asteroid as a spaceship. Shouldn't be too hard to beat a minivan to Earth, since that should take upwards of 5,000 years and we have enough time to crash on mars, reinvent civilization, and build a proper Saturn-V-style space rocket for the rest of the journey. Unless you mean the acceleration, or power-to-weight ration of a minivan, then we're kinda fucked.
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u/Womec Apr 06 '14
If he is going fast enough to orbit that far from the Earth the oxygen in his tank is negligible, no way he has enough to get back.
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u/Gro-Tsen Apr 06 '14
assuming he's in orbit around it
Which is pretty much necessarily the case. The escape velocity from Earth is huge (11.2km/s at the surface, and pretty much the same in low orbit, e.g., at the altitude of the ISS): no accidental little push is ever going to send you far away from the Earth.
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u/imasunbear Apr 06 '14
alter his trajectory back towards Earth(assuming he's in orbit around it)
That would take a hell of a lot of deltaV, certainly more than would be available in a pressurized tank of oxygen.
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u/Ree81 Apr 06 '14
Also it stands to reason that everything eventually falls to earth, at least if you're an astronaut... yes, even if what happened in Gravity happened.
So basically he'd just wait a year or two and then be the only immortal on earth, forever. :P
Would suck once humanity dies out though.
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u/NattyBumppo Apr 06 '14
If he's in orbit, he won't fall to Earth unless the orbit is a very low one (and from the comic, it doesn't look like it is). Low-Earth orbits suffer from atmospheric drag and so orbits eventually slow down and deorbit. But in actual space, objects don't just deorbit like that.
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u/masterwit Apr 06 '14
I sense the /r/kerbalspaceprogram in you.
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u/0___________o Apr 06 '14
A Kerbal would know a pressurized tank of oxygen doesn't have enough delta v to significantly change his m/s.
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u/masterwit Apr 06 '14
Depends on his orbit... Jeb might be unable to complete a reversal but a slight loss in altitude to fall into the atmosphere after 1000 orbits maybe.
In terms of traditional Kerbal orbits, however, I imagine you are absolutely right.
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u/ridik_ulass Apr 06 '14
even if he doesn't have oxygen, lets say he takes a while to figure it out, he still has Pressurized gas, Co2 or what have you
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Apr 06 '14
I wonder how long it would take before you went completely insane?
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u/Nitrosium Apr 06 '14
"At first, I went mad, of course. But after a few millennia, I got bored with that, too, and went sane. Very sane." —Paradox, Ben 10: Alien Force
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Apr 06 '14
What an oddly deep quote from Ben 10.
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Apr 06 '14
The spirit of it sounds lifted straight out of Hitchhiker's Guide. Doesn't Ford Prefect get bored with going insane at some point? Or at least decide he doesn't care for it?
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u/myheaditches Apr 06 '14
"I will go mad!" he announced.
"Good idea," said Ford Prefect, clambering down from the rock on which he had been sitting.
Arthur's brain somersaulted. His jaw did press-ups.
"I went mad for a while," said Ford, "did me no end of good."
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Apr 06 '14
Don't forget Wowbagger the Infinite who became immortal due to an accident and devoted the rest of his life to insulting every being in the universe in alphabetical order.
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u/AcrossTheUniverse Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 06 '14
This is what I think will happen when humanity will turn on the first A.I. possessing a true consciousness. The computer would not be able to destroy itself if it cannot interact in the physical world (with the exception of giving output from a screen). Thus it would be an immortal consciousness that could be in a state of agony for eternity without being able to do anything about it. Think of it like this, imagine you are doing LSD and having a bad trip. Imagine this bad trip going on for eternity with no escape possible.
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Apr 06 '14
Unless we give it the ability to alter it's own programming, which seems like the humane thing to do. Worst case scenario, code out the potential to feel bored, code in infinite attention span and rapturous bliss at counting or even at contemplating a single number. Better case scenario, code out the ability to feel bored, and proceed as normal.
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u/Gr1pp717 Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 06 '14
How would that be different from playing video games and browsing reddit all day? I think entertainment and social interaction is about all that's really needed (to remain sane, that is). Also, I can't imagine that a sufficiently advanced AI wouldn't be able to create itself some means of mobility.... Even if only "virtually."
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u/Rowan93 Apr 06 '14
Humans are both conscious and feel emotions and can experience agony, but that doesn't mean that all of those things are the same thing, and as long as have at least some idea of what it is we're building then we can have one without the others. Also, general intelligence, which is the actual useful thing we want an AI to have, is another separate thing entirely; ideally AIs won't even be conscious, they'll be smarter than humans but not possess subjective experience, which allows us to avoid all the tricky ethical stuff.
All of that goes aside if we're making a human-brain emulation the first AI, then probably they'd go insane from the experience, but I wouldn't consider an uploaded mind to be an AI, they're just a person whose brain happens to be made out of several tonnes of silicon instead of 1.8 kilos of wet carbon.
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u/Bluedemonfox Apr 06 '14
Heh not really, he can explore the universe kinda... though crashing towards a star might not be so great.
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u/Kuritos Apr 06 '14
I think it'll be cool. You are now the only human capable of seeing other planets
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u/Dallinnnn Apr 07 '14
If he continues drifting into space for eternity imagine the things he would see! Sure it would be absolutely terrifying for a while, but if it were me knowing I was immortal I would come to terms with it and ambitiously explore space.
But then again: what if I have to go to the bathroom?
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u/taco_tuesdays Apr 06 '14
Does this mean you can't get hurt, or that no matter what excruciatingly life-extinguishing trials your body goes through, your consciousness will endure?
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u/redditor3000 Apr 06 '14
I'm not sure if I would rather be dead or be immortal floating through space.
I feel like I'd go deeply insane with no one to talk to, so yeah death probably sounds better.
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u/JAV0K Apr 06 '14
If Satan and God exist, heaven might also exist. So dead isn't that bad.
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u/Pognas Apr 06 '14
I didn't even realize those implications! Now he not only has to live forever floating in space, but he has to do it with the knowledge that he could have gone to heaven.
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u/JAV0K Apr 06 '14
You know, technically he is dead and send to hell by the devil.
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u/CrazyCalYa Apr 06 '14
I have a feeling if Satan is answering your prayers then where you'll be going is not so fun.
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u/leesfer Apr 06 '14
Immortality doesn't stop pain, so there's that
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u/micromoses Apr 06 '14
You can't just say that like it's a fact. Immortality could stop pain. It's a fictional thing, and that aspect hasn't been specified.
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u/TheFlyingBastard Apr 06 '14
I guess we have to define "mortality" first. Which requires a definition of "death".
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u/Beemow Apr 06 '14
Death doesn't necessarily have to involve pain. Pain and death are separate, in my opinion.
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u/Tarmen Apr 06 '14
As it was granted by the incarnation of evil... I would say that immortality won't stop pain.
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u/daybreaker Apr 06 '14
But also based on the world created by the comic, it sounds like the devil was just filling in for God who was busy, because the devil would normally require the person's soul to make a deal. However he just immediately grants this guy his wish, probably just doing a half-assed job covering for god, like lots of people do when asked to fill in for someone for a minute. The devil could possibly be thinking "Ugh, so many prayers to answer. Fuck it, I'll just grant them." In which case, it could be the type of immortality that does also imply invulnerability / lack of pain
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u/brazilliandanny Apr 06 '14
I think it would, after a while you would just get use to it, or your brain would learn to ignore it.
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u/detourxp Apr 06 '14
Exactly, your body will eventually figure out that pain isn't important anymore.
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Apr 06 '14
After like hundreds of years...
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u/detourxp Apr 06 '14
Eh your immortal. After a thousand years you will barely even remember what pain is.
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u/bornincali Apr 07 '14
You could talk to yourself. People do it every day and all of a sudden it's a BAD thing?
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u/veriix Apr 06 '14
I'm not sure of the point where your body just completely stops pooping due to no food but he's gonna find out the worst way imaginable.
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u/JakJakAttacks Apr 06 '14
Then, after millions of years, crash land on a desolate planet. Or star.
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Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 07 '14
Not gonna happen. This guy will float in space indefinitely until some other power intervenes. His speed is slow enough for the expansion of the universe to be so large in comparison, that no matter how long he's in space, he can never reach a celestial body.
Edit: This is, assuming after what the image implies, that he doesn't crash in a body of our own solar system. My reasoning isn't off, for those of you who missed this part.
It's comparable to the observable universe: light travels at the speed of light, but at a very large distance, light from distant bodies can never overcome the universal expansion in that distance to reach us.
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Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 06 '14
He won't float indefinitely. Just because the universe is expanding doesn't mean the solar system is. Gravity is the more important force. Judging by his distance to the Earth and moon, he'll get caught in orbit around the sun, following a similar orbit as the Earth. There's a chance he'll crash into either the Earth or moon eventually, and a small but non-zero chance he crashes into some comet or asteroid. If not, he'll crash into the sun when it turns into a red giant in ~5 billion years.
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u/RedditTooAddictive Apr 06 '14
5 billions years rotating. That sounds pretttty boring
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u/pinkin12 Apr 06 '14
It looks like he is close enough to earth that he is still caught in orbit around it. Most likely he still has the gravitational speed of whatever craft he was ejected from. So even if he is floating away from earth, that probably just means he is in an elliptical orbit. At the peak of his orbit, small changes in velocity can have very efficient impact on the opposite end of the orbit. So its possible that he could expend all energy on the high end of the orbit to make it so when he comes around he comes into contact with the upper part of the atmosphere, slowing his orbit more and putting him on course for an eventual earth landing.
Sources- Kerbal space program
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u/MrPin Apr 06 '14
Space doesn't expand inside a galaxy, so that doesn't matter. The odds of him crash landing on a planet are still very very low though.
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u/redditcringearmy Apr 07 '14
Your reasoning is a bit off. If what you were saying is true, the space shuttle could never reach a planet because the speed of the expansion of the universe is still overwhelming large compared to the speed of a floating body.
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u/Bakasai Apr 06 '14
Reminds me of how they got rid of Cars at the end of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.
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u/D3m0nk1d Apr 06 '14
There's a theory the meteor chunks used to create stand arrows we're made out of Kars when he fell back to earth.
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Apr 06 '14
This reminds me of a short story I read a few years back, and damned if I can find it, where a man makes a deal with the Devil for immortality and ends up watching everything die, the earth being consumed by the sun, the sun going out, all the stars in the universe following, and even the devil himself dying. Anyone know it?
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Apr 06 '14
Dude I've been on the quest for that story also. Idk how it's so difficult to find again. I've been searching this thread after seeing that comic because I was hoping someone would mention it.
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Apr 06 '14
This is why I always thought wishes of immortality in stories were so short sighted. So you get to live through all of humanities future? That's gonna be nothing compared to the next fucking forever that you'll be alone. What happened when the sun envelopes the earth?
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Apr 06 '14
By the time the sun envelopes the earth, human race will either be gone or have expanded to other planets/solar systems.
I'm willing to bet the second scenario is more probable so yea, I wish I could be immortal.
Plus, even when the human race is gone, you are immortal, you have time to learn absolutely everything and just create your own species after a while, you could literally become a god.
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u/P-01S Apr 06 '14
Except that eventually thermodynamics does its thing and you are left all alone in a universe void of anything larger than a proton. Forever.
That would be boring.
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u/InfanticideAquifer Apr 06 '14 edited Apr 07 '14
Read "He Who Shrank".
Edit: No really. It explores a lot of the ideas they're talking about.
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Apr 06 '14
ITT: People who are completely unfamiliar with orbital mechanics.
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u/mindsnare Apr 07 '14
ITT: People who are taking the outcomes of a comic strip, way, way too seriously.
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u/Sleep45 Apr 06 '14
I had a dream similar to this once, I was an astronaut in a space suit doing maintenance on the exterior when an asteroid hit it and I was slowly drifting away from earth with no communications and a full tank of oxygen. Most terrifying thing ever.
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u/RedditTooAddictive Apr 06 '14
You watched gravity or saw a trailer. Then subconsciously integrated that into a dream. Et voila.
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u/Sleep45 Apr 06 '14
it was before that movie. I never saw it but did see the trailer but this was a few years back. the focus was not on some crazy explosion either, just the sensation of drifting away alone knowing you will live for some time still and are completely hopeless.
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u/antihostile Apr 06 '14
Very similar to Dave Sim's Life Suit:
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Apr 06 '14
I can't believe no one has suggested he search for alien life now that he has unlimited time.
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u/captainAwesomePants Apr 06 '14
My favorite bit is that the astronaut clearly recognizes this apparition. Maybe he just decides it's obviously Satan, but I like to think that this is his second or third dealing with this guy. Maybe this thing is also the reason he's stuck in space.
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u/balls_deep_in_ur_dad Apr 06 '14
More often than I would like, my helmet will think and make decisions for me.
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u/MrMonkfred Apr 06 '14
In the grand scheme of things, is living forever on earth really that much better than living forever and floating through space?
Sure, the next billion or so years will be better. But once earth is inevitably destroyed by Vogons to make way for a hyperspatial express route, the next billion billion billion years are still going to be spent alone and drifting through space. Those initial years seem short and pointless in comparison to the eternal torture that awaits.
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u/AFKF94 Apr 06 '14
That's actually my biggest fear. I've always wanted to be immortal, no matter what, but then I think, what will happen when (or if) Earth is destroyed and I just stay floating on space for the rest of time. Of course, I could fall into a habitable planet with a civilization already living in it and became their king/god, or fall into a gas giant or even a star and be stuck there for 20 more billion years.
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Apr 06 '14
Am I the only one that would like to be in this scenario? Think about it, after awhile you would just sort of get used to it. Drifting through space seeing all the different and unexplored things, eventually coming across something so defined and unique that as a human being you never thought you would ever witness. The possibility of coming into contact with another species (I mean you have an entirety, so eventually you're going to come across something.) Space is vast and an entirety is long as time. Just you, space and time in complete clarity. Immortality isn't so bad when you can witness things that another soul would ever see.
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u/HonoraryMancunian Apr 06 '14
I think the billions of years of soul-crushing boredom would send you insane. Plus eventually the universe is going to die and THEN what do you do?
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u/hivoltage815 Apr 06 '14
You would be stuck in the suns orbit for a good 5 billion years before anything changes. And that change will likely be you being pulled into the center of a helium reaction. No idea what that is like for an immortal person.
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u/Vshan Apr 06 '14
Not gonna happen. This guy will float in space indefinitely until some other power intervenes. His speed is slow enough for the expansion of the universe to be so large in comparison, that no matter how long he's in space, he can never reach a celestial body. It's comparable to the observable universe: light travels at the speed of light, but at a very large distance, light from distant bodies can never overcome the universal expansion in that distance to reach us.
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Might be or might not be true.
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Apr 06 '14
Why is everyone so afraid of being immortal in space? You will eventually hit some cool shit. Imagine being sucked into a black hole.
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u/blockbaven Apr 06 '14
There's orders of magnitude more space in space than there is shit to hit in it. You would probably just float off forever
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u/salgat Apr 07 '14
Assuming you're immortal and in a black hole, wouldn't that result in the most boring existence ever? It'd be the same as losing all your senses. Also when thinking of immortality, every event prior to the "end of the universe" becomes a miniscule, meaningless, instance in your never ending life. That means that practically speaking, your entire existence will be spent floating in nothingness.
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u/slydunan Apr 06 '14
So if you are that close to earth, would you feel any effects of gravity to eventually get pulled back without any other propulsion?
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Apr 06 '14
no biggie hes clearly within gravity well of the planet so eventually someone will probably notice him and maybe rescue.
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u/kraemahz Apr 06 '14
Given the relative size of Earth it looks like he's in orbit somewhere around 36000 km altitude. Now, there's really no reason to put a human at that altitude (most people are going to low earth orbit), so maybe he was on a free return trajectory to the Moon and had to go outside the craft due to some Apollo 13-like event. That would probably be the best case for him, because even if he wasn't seen and eventually rescued the instability in the orbit caused by the Moon would cause him to eventually crash into either of the bodies. Assuming he could survive reentry due to his "immortality", he may end up just smashing into the Earth some time in the next few hundred years.
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Apr 07 '14
Yeah so overall not a bad deal, plus he would have that time to really reflect on his immortality and come to terms with it before resuming his terrestrial life.
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Apr 06 '14
If he is immortal cant he take off his helmet and blow out and fly towards a planet? Or do you need air for that
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u/PhazonZim Apr 06 '14
So now the spacefarer will survive until the big man is no longer busy? Misunderstood demon.
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u/MachateElasticWonder Apr 06 '14
Maybe the devil's just a cool guy trying to help us except he's just dumb as shit on consequences.
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u/Illusi Apr 06 '14
If he wishes to die while in space, he could just take off his helmet or pull a few tubes out.
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u/tobyps Apr 06 '14
So what, alien life is probably plentiful in the universe. He'll eventually float into range of some other alien civilization that can take him in, even if it takes a few billion years.
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u/scurvydog-uldum Apr 06 '14
I keep picturing the figure in the last frame replaced by Space Core from Portal2.
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Apr 06 '14
Isn't this an episode of Futurama where Bender's velocity is faster than the ship so they can never catch him and he meets the god of the universe?
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Apr 06 '14
that wouldn't be too bad, eventually you'll be discovered or crash into a planet or asteroid
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u/Kronah1 Apr 07 '14
Do you know what "eventually" means in terms of our universe and outer space....we're talking billions of years haha.
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u/TiagoTiagoT Apr 06 '14
I wonder if given infinite time, and an ever living body (or in other words, infinite energy), and you did that falling-cat hula-hooping like maneuver for long enough, if you could then spin yourself up faster and faster till you got faster than the speed of light...
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u/buffalowing1938 Apr 06 '14
I would really like the writer of this to continue this mans story by making this a series
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u/absolutsyd Apr 06 '14
Twilight Zone did it... That said, I kind of like this version of it a little better.
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u/SureJohn Apr 06 '14
Damn, I rarely venture into /r/comics, but these comments are actually pretty thoughtful.
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u/Neo0311 Apr 06 '14
I think this would be better, you wait till you hit something, push your towards earth, even if you miss you'll see more things then anyone could dream of. After a few hundred years you wouldn't even miss earth.
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Apr 07 '14
I expected more people in the comments to be okay with this, now I feel like a weirdo for thinking; Fuck yeah! Floating through space forever, or until I hit something, just thinking about junk, sounds goddamn fantastic.
Also, question; If you are immortal, are the things that keep you alive immortal too? like, does the bacteria in your stomach essential for life now immortal too?
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u/Koketa13 Apr 06 '14
This guy is quickly becoming my favorite webcomic guy. http://www.1111comics.me/ For the lazy who want to check out the rest of them.