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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

More like

Universe: exists

Scientists:

If you want to listen to smart people being SUPER excited about their favorite things, The Ologies Podcast cannot be recommended highly enough!

[–] M137@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The Universe: Exists
Also the Universe: Doesn't explain itself
Scientists: What in the goddamn fuck
Scientists: Tries to look for answers
The Universe: Not so fast *does everything in its power to stop the Scientists from figuring out how it all works, why it exists and is the way that it is.

I like to think of it as this super huge structure, with all these mysterious facets and faces cut into it. We found it, have no idea how to properly measure or capture it. We started as blind men, groping their eay through the dark, and now we've found ways to light a flame and to see the surface before us, but it's so huge and there's so many patterns layered over patterns that it's uncomprehendingly beautiful and we have to continue to invent new tools and methods of processing what's before us.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, you just threw me into a "what the fuck is existence and why does anything exist?" spiral.

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 38 points 8 hours ago

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 5 hours ago

Due to some ancient meme I can only see this gif with MGS alert music in my head.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

Doubt.

          -Philosiphers
[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but the what in the goddamn fuck is spread through so many scientific fields.

Who: biology What: chemistry When: physics Where: geology, archeology Why? Philosophy

All these fields just because the universe exists. kind of beautiful if you ask me.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

One could argue that the purpose of life is self knowledge. As a part of the universe, we are driven to understand it. More recently, we know that self exploration through therapy resolves emotional traumas. Travel and exposure to other cultures tends to create compassion for them.

Γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Know Thyself

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.ca 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago

Why the fuck are we?

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Pyramids exists. History channel: Aliens.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Just a perfect example of how business perverts the incentives and ruins everything

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. Apparently that show has been going on for 18 seasons. 18 seasons of pseudoscience and shitty theories.

[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 6 points 10 hours ago

Am science, can confirm