[jmac01]

A human blink takes about 0.1s. And spends roughly 75 years alive.

Blink/s/min/hr/day/years= 0.1/60/60/24/365/75 = ~4*e-11 ratio of blinks to years alive

Age of universe is 14Byears

14,000,000,000 * 4*e-11 = 0.59 years.

A cosmic blink is about 7months

[heavenlyblue]

Thanks that's actually an amazing perspective. Universe, after all - isn't that old if you think about it.

[mongol]

Especially not in relation to how old it is expected to become

[slashdev]

That’s one possibility for the Fermi paradox. We might just be the first technological civilization in our neighborhood.

A trillion years from now this place might be packed with them (red dwarf stars, the most common type of star live about two trillion years, unlike our hotter, larger star.)

[Maursault]

> Age of universe is 14Byears

It's age now. What will its age be when it is the relative equivalent of a 75yo human? A cosmic blink will be far longer than 7 months.

[disconcision]

i don't think there really is such a relative equivalency. the universe according to best current understanding doesn't have anything which resembles human death to demarcate a lifetime. you could say 'heat death' but i dont think thats a strong comparison because, very much unlike human death, its a state which is approached asymptotically; the universe at heat death will look very much like the universe half way to, or even a millionth of the way to

[arp242]

I suppose the closest would be the point at which multicellular/intelligent life becomes impossible, or perhaps when all life becomes impossible. Stellar formation will end in about 100 trillion years, so that seems a good point.