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This world is a simulation

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m0ney said:
Shadow1980 said:

It's like some people can't deal with the likelihood that existence is quite possibly a cosmic accident

Impossibur. For example the Moon was put exactly where it is, if it was anywhere else the Earth would be basically inhabitable, at least by humans. Can it be a chance? No way. It was either put there by the creators of this simulation or by an advanced civilization before us.

Life evolved to work with where the Moon is, not the other way around...



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You can never answer this question. Because if your assumption is correct, then it means no one's experienced reality before. Even your observation of hey, the games we make looks like "reality" is just within "the" simulation.

Even though the real world have many properties that are similar to the computer codes and video games that we make. It may just be because humans taking what they experience in the real world and copying it in computer codes and video games.



m0ney said:
Shadow1980 said:

It's like some people can't deal with the likelihood that existence is quite possibly a cosmic accident

Impossibur. For example the Moon was put exactly where it is, if it was anywhere else the Earth would be basically inhabitable, at least by humans. Can it be a chance? No way. It was either put there by the creators of this simulation or by an advanced civilization before us.

There are between 100 and 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

The moon was a result from a collision of a Mars sized proto planet (Theia) with the developing earth 4.5 billion years ago. This type of colossal collision is estimated to happen in about 5 to 10 percent of planetary systems. That's a lot of candidates! About 5 billion other solar systems in our Galaxy alone where it could have happened. 

Time is the biggest 'problem', next to distance. Earth's civilizations have only been around for a few thousand years out of it's 4.54 billion years existence, the pyramids have only been around for 0.0001% of Earth's life. Life might just be a flash in the pan so to speak, seeing how we're heading to extinction one way or another. Evolution is not a process seeking stability, it consumes exponentially with finite resources, our planet.

Our radio signals have traveled less than 100 light years since the 1930s. The Milky way galaxy is 100 to 120 thousand light years in diameter and a 1,000 light years thick. Meaning our radio signals have reached less than 0.000001% of our Galaxy.

If we can make it outside our own solar system and start inhabiting exoplanets, then we can start speculating how unique 'intelligent' life is on Earth. 

The question arises, if we live in some kind of simulation, are we part of it or a byproduct. What is it simulating if it took 13.8 billion years for humans to emerge. If we somehow are the 'goal', how would we even be detected inside the simulation. 



m0ney said:
Shadow1980 said:

It's like some people can't deal with the likelihood that existence is quite possibly a cosmic accident

Impossibur. For example the Moon was put exactly where it is, if it was anywhere else the Earth would be basically inhabitable, at least by humans. Can it be a chance? No way. It was either put there by the creators of this simulation or by an advanced civilization before us.

Thanks for making my point for me. Creationism by any other name is still creationism.

Like SvennoJ said, the moon wasn't "put there." The prevailing theory for its formation is the collision between proto-Earth and another Mars-sized proto-planet (the capture, fission, and co-accretion models couldn't account for various observations, whereas the Giant Impact model does). It's distance hasn't been constant, either. It used to be much, much closer, but tidal forces have continually caused the moon's distance from Earth continually increase (and the Earth's rotation to slow, in keeping with conservation of angular momentum of the Earth-Moon system).



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