Eventually, Kars stopped thinking
I always thought it funny that traditional ghosts can go through walls but are held up by the floor. Finally some consistency.
That’s because floors aren’t part of their finished business, but walls are.
Just implies that ghost have some kind of interaction with gravity. Maybe ghosts make up dark matter.
If you just had interaction with gravity, you’d fall through the floor.
They’re just behaving as they’ve been taught ghosts are supposed to behave.
Nothing is as terrifying as SpaceEngine.
Frankly. This… software rearranged my brain and changed me fundamentally.
There are no words to describe being lost in the 10^27 of space. It’s just too much, you will go insane and if you survive you will lose the ability to talk with people. You will lose every single thing that you thought matters. You will be alone even in the busiest of places. Some part of you forever stuck in the 10^27 of emptiness between local groups.
It’s anxiety inducing in VR, so fucking cool
I don’t know if I want to try this or not now
Try it, the old version is free.
I think the steam version has had a few updates since then but it should be so different.
ITT: people thinking way too hard about a comic
you know its a good comic when it makes people think too hard about it
This is my religion now
Mine too but mine is slightly different and I’m gonna have to kill you now.
Wait wait wait, MY version of the religion says you must not kill because of differences in religion. We enforce this rule very strictly and with death.
Praise Fido
Too hard for what?
Dees
It is always a good time for some philosophy
So there’s just a long ass trail of ghosts floating in space?
At least some sections would be heavily populated…
No, because the solar system is moving together along the outer edge of the
cosmosMilky Way. I don’t know if there’s anything such as a cosmic absolute frame of reference for “no motion”, but (depending on what you’re motionless in reference to) you would likely never see another soul.If you were killed in a mass-killing you’d have other ghosts near you though.
Think I’ll go this one alone
Should be a comet trail of ghosts drifting behind the Earth. She wouldn’t be alone.
They would be pretty far apart though
Wtf this is terrifying
Is it though?
You’ve died, what’s there to be afraid of? You’re no longer a bag of chemicals what is there to feel?
In the comic you are still conscious. Forever. Not being able to move in any direction, the universe around you slowly drifting away. You will be swallowed by the darkness between the stars for a hundred billion years, all the while fully aware that you are completely and utterly alone with your own thoughts.
I guess. If consciousness alone is that unpleasant to you.
How long was the longest you have been alone with zero sensual input?
How long have you been a wantless senseless immortal spectre?
Finally billions of years without social interactions.
This was an unfortunate way to start my day
This reminds me of psychedelics suprisingly lot
to be a little pedantic, if you take in account the rate of expansion of the universe, and take as a truth that the ghost stays stationary in spacetime, earth would disappear in an instant
The spirit is already moving at the same speed and in the same direction as the earth when it exits the body.
And it would still be gone in an instant
Nah, it won’t be perfect. Some, tiny divergent velocity will exist.
But that would imply that the ghost is a physical thing right?
Does it come to existence when we are born? Or does it appear when we die?
Does It behave like matter? If not, properties like velocity, inertia or energy wouldn’t apply.
The comic is really amusing to bring forth these questions
That’s a fair point. So then one might expect the ghost to continue their motion tangential to the orbit of the earth, and so they’ll float away.
However, the theory of general relativity suggests that gravity isn’t really like other forces. It doesn’t push or pull anything at all; but rather its bends the fabric of time and space. Objects ‘falling’ due to gravity, or ‘in orbit’ around a planet are actually moving in a direct straight line in curved space-time. And this is why gravity still applies to massless objects such as light. So then, I’d say the ghost would still be affected by gravity - and that their main concern would be falling into the earth rather than drifting away.
😆 this comment really amused me, i guess the basic physics plus ghosts in the same matter-of-fact statement
It is a bit absurd. Isn’t it?
which is all the more terrifying
Would that not depend on your inertial frame? Like isn’t the entire concept of being stationary relative to spacetime not an actual thing? I’m not trying to be pedantic, BTW, I literally don’t know the answer to my question.
Yup. Same as the time travel meme that was on the front page recently, this relies on there being a fixed inertial frame whuch is not a thing in our weird universe.
There might be one, but there is just no way of knowing
No, there cannot be one. It’s been proven, I’m pretty sure.
loses mind
gains ultimate power
becomes Azathoth:
“the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws”
Or Cthulhu, The Unknowable One.
Or Yog-Sothoth, The One and All
Or The One We Can’t Name Anymore
Odd how they chose gravity, but not the fact the earth is both rotating and revolving around the sun. Even more than that, the entire solar system is revolving around the center of our galaxy.
The effect of rotation is visible in the first two pictures, she is floating sideways.
The way I interpreted it, is that gravity normally holds you on Earth despite all the effects you listed, and gravity not affecting this ghost, that’s the problem.
Peace
Yeah for like an hour and then you’d go insane.
Eventually, she stopped thinking.
Is that a JoJo reference
