On: Gordon Moore has died

[matwood]

> all while being 38,000 feet in the air

I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.

[Razengan → matwood]

And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)

[selectodude → Razengan]

Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.

[andrewflnr → selectodude]

To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)

[tim333 → andrewflnr]

Also we are more patterns in the dust given that most of the atoms in our bodies swap for new ones over a couple of years. The patterns may be able to continue separately from the dust.

[ChickenNugger → andrewflnr]

At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.

[FrontierPsych → ChickenNugger]

I thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.

[TheCoreh → selectodude]

A dense ball of _everything_.

[Aperocky → Razengan]

That's what we are, entropy generating star dust.