I give you a cozy chair and you are now going to watch the beginning of earth til today with all your senses. You won’t age, everything freezes. But once you reach this minute you will get a million dollars.
All you have to do is watch earth form from nothing to how it is now in this minute and then you will come down to earth with a million dollars and nothing changed.
Yes or no? You will see things nobody has ever seen and you can watch the dinos if you get to that point after a few million years. I will give you a chair and binoculars
No way. Sitting around for 4.5 billion years doing nothing while nothing happens for most of the time? I’d go insane after a few months with billions of years still to go. The “with all your senses” part also sucks for the millions of years when earth was a ball of lava with a steady rain of asteroids and no atmosphere.
Kurzgesagt made a video about the entire history of earth, each second representing 1.5 million years. I’d suggest watching this to get a sense about the absolutely massive amount of time. Our monkey brains are not even slightly made to observe all of this.
Also funny that you mention money, as if someone who just witnessed the entire history of earth would care about a measly million dollars.
Would you sit in a chair in an empty, featureless room and not move out of it for a year? I’d give you a million dollars.
If you had to think about that, now consider multiplying that by a billion, for the same reward.
We can also change your thought experiment to help people conceptualise the “billion” part. Instead of a lump sum after a billion years, let’s just take the original million and divide it so you receive the same amount for every year you complete. Does receiving a hundredth of a cent ($0.001) for every year you sit in said room sound like a very good deal?
Even with hundreds of billions of dollars, it sounds like an insanely bad deal. It doesn’t even cover a yearly salary, and money would be completely unusable for 99.99% of that time lol
You keep asking this question, we keep saying no, and then you ask it again with LESS money on offer. You don’t get how haggling works, and you definitely don’t get how asklemmy questions work.
Even forgot to update the description with the new lower offer.
At this point I’m pretty sure @Grogon is actually multiple iterations of a time traveller sent here to trap us.
Cosmic superbeings aren’t paying like they used to.
Even for a billion it’s such a shit deal. Billions of years of doing nothing experiencing the Big Bang and burning alive for centuries on end, to get pennies a year you ultimately will get to spend in the very last fractions of a percent of it all.
Honestly, being able to see everything play out would be worth it for me.
The market value of watching the world form seems to have dropped since yesterday.
I’m going to say no on this one! The Hadean Eon alone lasted for around 600,000 million years. A majority of Earth’s life had nothing of interest happening so I can’t imagine how bored I’d be 😭
500k or 1 million aren’t enough. It would be a difficult transition from observing the world, to participating in it. I would basically need to receive enough to comfortably retire.
Like, in real time? That’s an obvious no. It would be literally torture. Not being able to do anything other than just sitting in the same spot and watching a window for essentially eternity would make you literally insane. What a horror show experience
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I mean many billions of years doing nothing would 100% send u insane but if I had something to do I’d do it. A hell of a gaming setup and a fat steam library and I’d be good.
I don’t think you realise how long a billion years is.
The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars as people say.
For an actual example, one second is a wave of your arm. 100, 000 seconds is 1.25 days. A million seconds is a little over a week. A billion seconds is over 33 years. Being trapped in a box for 4 billion years is essentially cosmic torture that ancient gods would do to punish each other.
No amount of money would make me want to endure that torture. Most of earth’s history is just absolutely nothing. Apart from a few asteroid strikes, Cambrian explosion is about as exciting as things can get, and even that is just 100 million years of barely anything happening.
I don’t want to sit down and see how moss forms over millions of years.
I mean, is this in real time because I won’t lie, I bet there’s an awful lot of ‘boring’ mixed in with all the amazing moments.
So that’s 4 billion years for one million dollars. In other words, would I like to earn $0.00025/year? Hmmmm…
Why would you not want that?
Because you would go insane from boredom and lack of social interaction for a few billion years.
