Post by MugiwaraBlair on Sept 24, 2013 14:04:49 GMT
I suppose I should make introductions, after all, whoever you are, you may draw the conclusion that pieces of this record are missing if there is no trace of a beginning. Of course you well be astute enough to figure that out by yourself but my experience has shown that this is highly unlikely. I was born on planet Earth, Sol System, Milky Way galaxy, Local Group (yes...those who chose those names severely lacked foresight and objectivity, let us move on), Virgo Super Cluster. They hadn't named the universe when I left so I cannot specify further, which is fine regardless since you most likely have your own name for it, or at least I would dare presume a civilization who can travel to another universe would make some effort to identify individual ones. On the 6th of March, in the 1989th year of the Common Era. But none of that matters now, except to establish a timeframe for what I am telling you, for part of it in any case. I also thought, because of the vast probability of the one finding (or at least the one charged of studying it) this, and because of my substantial link with it, I will place the waypoints of my tale at significant points in the history of scientific happenings.
2014 CE,
The 1st step into what human society would become, the internet giant Google released it's 1st line of "reality augmenting" glasses. Obviously that appellation was laughable at the time.
2015 CE,
The baby steps of Virtual Reality; the widespread of 3D printers, foreshadowing the dawn of matter replicators and everything they changed. It was also at this time that the underground particle accelerator in Switzerland reached it's maximum operating power, sparking the need to build an improved replacement.
2016 CE,
They opened an hotel in space, once again wasting science on the whims of wealthy morons.
2017 CE,
This was a rather busy year, marking the advent of electronic paper and health monitoring implants. Teleportation of a molecule was achieve that year also.
2018 CE,
Some surgeries started being done by robots, they started putting internet nodes all over the place, seemingly half the annoying insect population had become military spy drones. More notably they released pills to cure obesity, sending the message that you could be a fat idiot and have a quick n easy way out. A sadder sign of things to come was 3D scanners that worked from far away and could be stuffed in a pocket.
2019 CE,
The new particle accelerator was completed, vehicules were now connected to roads and computational power broke the exaflop barrier.
2020 CE,
Medicine could now implant you with whole stem-cell grown organs, somewhat related were advances in life-extension, which I profited from despite being a modest 31 years old at the time, still I didn't wish to take chances when it came to avoiding death, which for better or worse has worked out very well in my favor. It was also that year that saw the beginning of virtual telepathy, people could text without their thumbs.
2021 CE,
That year was also very busy, marking the arrival of behavior analysing surveillance systems (bringing with them one of the last few drops before the waters of fed-up ness reached the brim of the glass), the start of manned exploration of nearby asteroids, reusable spacecraft, wireless electrical systems and the limits of microchip miniaturization. With the methods of the time of course.
2029 CE,
A computer passed the Turing Test for the first time. The following year AI had already begun to spread.
2035 CE,
Standard infantry was replaced with warbots, the then-secret societies began dabbling into living weapons shortly after.
2037 CE,
Almost all computers everywhere were quantum computers by this time.
2040 CE,
Practically no one spoke to each other in person anymore, virtual telepathy and VR dominated civilian activity and communications.
2045 CE,
Cyborgs of earlier science-fiction works started becoming a reality.
2055 CE,
Global population had reached a plateau and humanity was at a crossroads. It is also quite ironic that this was the time researchers announced that it had become technically feasible to manufacture fully synthetic humans. S&A had been developping this technology for almost 2 decades by that time.
2062 CE,
Nano-fabricators had finally become a mainstream product, and economy crashed along with the value of rare materials. But it was also fortunate since we had dried up the wells of many a critical element. Like say, antimony, copper and silver.
2065 CE,
It was revealed to the public that we could stop aging outright, idiotic ethical and philosophical debate having retarted it since the breakthrough had been made in 2046. I was 77 years old, at the time of my birth that was close to my expected lifespan, at that time my lifespan was indefinite and I didn't look even half of my years.
2072 CE,
Pico technology was "becoming" practical, I put the word in quotes since Cerberus had developped it enough for their ARES program to be well underway, although they would later update it.
2079 CE,
The flying cars they promised us for the turn of the millenium were here at last. Jetpacks had also been there for a while by then. On a grimer note, some humans had become more artificial than biological by that time too.
2100 CE,
Most of the population was now intellectually augmented by merging their minds with AIs. For my part I had merely tweaked my neuronal circuitry and still maintained the vast gap of cognitive prowess I had always possessed.
2110-2120 CE,
We started terraforming Mars, femto engineering "started" having practical applications. Again, quotes indicate one of the secret groups was beyond that point. ARES program was successful and we stopped being secret as Cerberus struck at the world governments and their UNITs devasted all opposition, which of course forced the rest of us to reveal ourselves so they wouldn't take everything for themselves. In other news, the uploading of minds had become widespread and the space elevator finished completion.
2150 CE,
Interstellar travel was starting to look seeable on the horizon, some cities were fully automated, and worked better than those that weren't I might add. Lesser corporations boasted having the technology to make androids physically indistinguishable from humans, S&A boasted back with SIGRUN, the 1st successful subject of Project Valkyrie, who was indistinguishable from a physical goddess.
2160 CE,
Humanity celebrated the anniversaries of the 1st bi-centenarians, including Madeleine Moreau, who was even the 1st person to reach 200 years old, making her the oldest living person in the history of the world, despite looking mid-20s at worst, which hadn't changed one bit when I left. I myself was 171 years old, though I also looked in my 20s. Which I still do for that matter.
2200 CE,
Information had officially supplanted material value. A global re-wilding effort was also started.
2250 CE,
Humanity had become a Type 1 civilization.
2300 CE,
Augmentations that made me a goddess amongst mortals nigh a century before was now available to common people, to which the reactions of most was along the lines of "meh, this sucks, I can do way cooler things in VR".
2500 CE,
Terraforming of Mars was finished.
2700 CE,
Completion of the Venus terraforming process.
3100 CE,
Humanity had become a Type 2 civilization and I had reached the peculiar age of 1111 years old. I leave Earth through an experimental wormhole-esque rift created by S&A.
3500 CE,
Completion of the Solar Ring, 1st step of the dyson sphere. I return from my voyage, changed. And irritated since what seemed like a mere 4 centuries to them was 100s of 1 000 000s to me, perhaps billions.
4000 CE,
Computing had more less reached it's full potential. Or so we thought in a way.
~22 000 CE,
The old russian site of Chernobyl had finally become safe again, when I was a little girl people thought that place was ruined forever. And here I stood, over 200 centuries old, right at the center of it, inhaling fresh air. Not that the radiation would have been a bother by that point mind you.
~30 000 CE,
The 1st wave of exploration vessels reached the galactic core. With ridiculously obsolete technology by the time they arrived.
52 012 CE,
The time capsule they sent into space when I was 23 came back, and they laughably dismissed me when I said I would see it back.
~100 000 CE,
VY Canis Majoris exploded into a supernova.
~1 000 000 CE,
"Humanity" had transformed into a Type 3 civilization, all systems were controlled by vastly advanced AIs, planet-sized computers dominated the Local Cluster and they moved around with FTL ships powered by Alcubierre Drives. By that time I had long left them but I continued watching that insignificant little blue planet, I guess home meant more to me than I thought, or perhaps I had simply nothing else to do.
~10 000 000 CE,
Earth was threatened with massive amounts of gamma radiation from a supernova, I protected it.
~50 000 000 CE,
Europe and Africa merged, birthing a new mountain range in the process.
~150 000 000 CE,
The Atlantic Ocean closed.
~225 000 000 CE,
Sol system completed a galactic year, I took mental note of the time span so that I might count my age with this unit if I ever decided the number became too great.
~250 000 000 CE,
The Earth's surface had fused back into a supercontinent like it had been in prehistoric times.
~600 000 000 CE,
I had been unsure for a few years but I could henceforth affirm with certainty that Total Solar Eclipses were no longer possible on Earth.
~750 000 000 CE,
The Milky Way began merging with the Sagittarius galaxy, though hazard might have allowed it, I ensured Earth stayed safe during the entire event.
~1 000 000 000 CE,
Earth's named had become sadly appropriate as the last of the liquid water evaporated.
~3 800 000 000 CE,
Andromeda started merging with the Milky Way/Sagittarius (the descendants of humanity had assigned it a coded combination of letters and numbers)
~5 000 000 000 CE,
The Sun had become a red giant, engulfing everything in the system up to the asteroid belt. I could have saved Earth again but it was already dead by that point, is home still home when everything that made it so has vanished ?
~12 000 000 000 CE,
Sol had started shrinking back in the process of becoming a black dwarf. Of course that didn't "give" the planets back, they had completely evaporated.
~100 000 000 000 CE,
The Virgo Super Cluster started converging into a single, humongous hyper galaxy.
~1 000 000 000 000 CE,
I celebrated my 1 trillionth birthday, and fittingly enough the universe blowed candles for me as star formation declined in most if not not all galaxies I could observe.
~2 000 000 000 000 CE,
Galaxies outside the mostly done hyper galaxy were no longer visible through normal photon reflection.
~20 000 000 000 000 CE,
Red Dwarfs across the universe were reaching the end of their tremendous lifespans. I was starting to feel a bit old.
~100 000 000 000 000 CE,
There were no candles to blow on my 100 trillionth birthday, because all the stars were gone.
~10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 CE,
Only degenerate objects like neutron stars and pulsars were left. And anything denser too of course. I thought I could push some of those into a black hole to use the quasar as a candle but I decided against a birthday that time. Mostly because 1 with 37 zeroes isn't a named number.
~10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 CE,
Only the largest Black Holes and subatomic particles remained.
As I finish recording these log entries, I feel....nothing anymore, much like this barren abyssal desert. I have personally watched the very last black hole evaporate. Oh of course there are still some photons, neutrinos, electrons and even some positrons, but they cannot interact anymore and I suspect they will eventually disappear too. As the universe continues to expand beyond and beyond, gets colder and colder..and I remain...alone....in the darkness.
2014 CE,
The 1st step into what human society would become, the internet giant Google released it's 1st line of "reality augmenting" glasses. Obviously that appellation was laughable at the time.
2015 CE,
The baby steps of Virtual Reality; the widespread of 3D printers, foreshadowing the dawn of matter replicators and everything they changed. It was also at this time that the underground particle accelerator in Switzerland reached it's maximum operating power, sparking the need to build an improved replacement.
2016 CE,
They opened an hotel in space, once again wasting science on the whims of wealthy morons.
2017 CE,
This was a rather busy year, marking the advent of electronic paper and health monitoring implants. Teleportation of a molecule was achieve that year also.
2018 CE,
Some surgeries started being done by robots, they started putting internet nodes all over the place, seemingly half the annoying insect population had become military spy drones. More notably they released pills to cure obesity, sending the message that you could be a fat idiot and have a quick n easy way out. A sadder sign of things to come was 3D scanners that worked from far away and could be stuffed in a pocket.
2019 CE,
The new particle accelerator was completed, vehicules were now connected to roads and computational power broke the exaflop barrier.
2020 CE,
Medicine could now implant you with whole stem-cell grown organs, somewhat related were advances in life-extension, which I profited from despite being a modest 31 years old at the time, still I didn't wish to take chances when it came to avoiding death, which for better or worse has worked out very well in my favor. It was also that year that saw the beginning of virtual telepathy, people could text without their thumbs.
2021 CE,
That year was also very busy, marking the arrival of behavior analysing surveillance systems (bringing with them one of the last few drops before the waters of fed-up ness reached the brim of the glass), the start of manned exploration of nearby asteroids, reusable spacecraft, wireless electrical systems and the limits of microchip miniaturization. With the methods of the time of course.
2029 CE,
A computer passed the Turing Test for the first time. The following year AI had already begun to spread.
2035 CE,
Standard infantry was replaced with warbots, the then-secret societies began dabbling into living weapons shortly after.
2037 CE,
Almost all computers everywhere were quantum computers by this time.
2040 CE,
Practically no one spoke to each other in person anymore, virtual telepathy and VR dominated civilian activity and communications.
2045 CE,
Cyborgs of earlier science-fiction works started becoming a reality.
2055 CE,
Global population had reached a plateau and humanity was at a crossroads. It is also quite ironic that this was the time researchers announced that it had become technically feasible to manufacture fully synthetic humans. S&A had been developping this technology for almost 2 decades by that time.
2062 CE,
Nano-fabricators had finally become a mainstream product, and economy crashed along with the value of rare materials. But it was also fortunate since we had dried up the wells of many a critical element. Like say, antimony, copper and silver.
2065 CE,
It was revealed to the public that we could stop aging outright, idiotic ethical and philosophical debate having retarted it since the breakthrough had been made in 2046. I was 77 years old, at the time of my birth that was close to my expected lifespan, at that time my lifespan was indefinite and I didn't look even half of my years.
2072 CE,
Pico technology was "becoming" practical, I put the word in quotes since Cerberus had developped it enough for their ARES program to be well underway, although they would later update it.
2079 CE,
The flying cars they promised us for the turn of the millenium were here at last. Jetpacks had also been there for a while by then. On a grimer note, some humans had become more artificial than biological by that time too.
2100 CE,
Most of the population was now intellectually augmented by merging their minds with AIs. For my part I had merely tweaked my neuronal circuitry and still maintained the vast gap of cognitive prowess I had always possessed.
2110-2120 CE,
We started terraforming Mars, femto engineering "started" having practical applications. Again, quotes indicate one of the secret groups was beyond that point. ARES program was successful and we stopped being secret as Cerberus struck at the world governments and their UNITs devasted all opposition, which of course forced the rest of us to reveal ourselves so they wouldn't take everything for themselves. In other news, the uploading of minds had become widespread and the space elevator finished completion.
2150 CE,
Interstellar travel was starting to look seeable on the horizon, some cities were fully automated, and worked better than those that weren't I might add. Lesser corporations boasted having the technology to make androids physically indistinguishable from humans, S&A boasted back with SIGRUN, the 1st successful subject of Project Valkyrie, who was indistinguishable from a physical goddess.
2160 CE,
Humanity celebrated the anniversaries of the 1st bi-centenarians, including Madeleine Moreau, who was even the 1st person to reach 200 years old, making her the oldest living person in the history of the world, despite looking mid-20s at worst, which hadn't changed one bit when I left. I myself was 171 years old, though I also looked in my 20s. Which I still do for that matter.
2200 CE,
Information had officially supplanted material value. A global re-wilding effort was also started.
2250 CE,
Humanity had become a Type 1 civilization.
2300 CE,
Augmentations that made me a goddess amongst mortals nigh a century before was now available to common people, to which the reactions of most was along the lines of "meh, this sucks, I can do way cooler things in VR".
2500 CE,
Terraforming of Mars was finished.
2700 CE,
Completion of the Venus terraforming process.
3100 CE,
Humanity had become a Type 2 civilization and I had reached the peculiar age of 1111 years old. I leave Earth through an experimental wormhole-esque rift created by S&A.
3500 CE,
Completion of the Solar Ring, 1st step of the dyson sphere. I return from my voyage, changed. And irritated since what seemed like a mere 4 centuries to them was 100s of 1 000 000s to me, perhaps billions.
4000 CE,
Computing had more less reached it's full potential. Or so we thought in a way.
~22 000 CE,
The old russian site of Chernobyl had finally become safe again, when I was a little girl people thought that place was ruined forever. And here I stood, over 200 centuries old, right at the center of it, inhaling fresh air. Not that the radiation would have been a bother by that point mind you.
~30 000 CE,
The 1st wave of exploration vessels reached the galactic core. With ridiculously obsolete technology by the time they arrived.
52 012 CE,
The time capsule they sent into space when I was 23 came back, and they laughably dismissed me when I said I would see it back.
~100 000 CE,
VY Canis Majoris exploded into a supernova.
~1 000 000 CE,
"Humanity" had transformed into a Type 3 civilization, all systems were controlled by vastly advanced AIs, planet-sized computers dominated the Local Cluster and they moved around with FTL ships powered by Alcubierre Drives. By that time I had long left them but I continued watching that insignificant little blue planet, I guess home meant more to me than I thought, or perhaps I had simply nothing else to do.
~10 000 000 CE,
Earth was threatened with massive amounts of gamma radiation from a supernova, I protected it.
~50 000 000 CE,
Europe and Africa merged, birthing a new mountain range in the process.
~150 000 000 CE,
The Atlantic Ocean closed.
~225 000 000 CE,
Sol system completed a galactic year, I took mental note of the time span so that I might count my age with this unit if I ever decided the number became too great.
~250 000 000 CE,
The Earth's surface had fused back into a supercontinent like it had been in prehistoric times.
~600 000 000 CE,
I had been unsure for a few years but I could henceforth affirm with certainty that Total Solar Eclipses were no longer possible on Earth.
~750 000 000 CE,
The Milky Way began merging with the Sagittarius galaxy, though hazard might have allowed it, I ensured Earth stayed safe during the entire event.
~1 000 000 000 CE,
Earth's named had become sadly appropriate as the last of the liquid water evaporated.
~3 800 000 000 CE,
Andromeda started merging with the Milky Way/Sagittarius (the descendants of humanity had assigned it a coded combination of letters and numbers)
~5 000 000 000 CE,
The Sun had become a red giant, engulfing everything in the system up to the asteroid belt. I could have saved Earth again but it was already dead by that point, is home still home when everything that made it so has vanished ?
~12 000 000 000 CE,
Sol had started shrinking back in the process of becoming a black dwarf. Of course that didn't "give" the planets back, they had completely evaporated.
~100 000 000 000 CE,
The Virgo Super Cluster started converging into a single, humongous hyper galaxy.
~1 000 000 000 000 CE,
I celebrated my 1 trillionth birthday, and fittingly enough the universe blowed candles for me as star formation declined in most if not not all galaxies I could observe.
~2 000 000 000 000 CE,
Galaxies outside the mostly done hyper galaxy were no longer visible through normal photon reflection.
~20 000 000 000 000 CE,
Red Dwarfs across the universe were reaching the end of their tremendous lifespans. I was starting to feel a bit old.
~100 000 000 000 000 CE,
There were no candles to blow on my 100 trillionth birthday, because all the stars were gone.
~10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 CE,
Only degenerate objects like neutron stars and pulsars were left. And anything denser too of course. I thought I could push some of those into a black hole to use the quasar as a candle but I decided against a birthday that time. Mostly because 1 with 37 zeroes isn't a named number.
~10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 CE,
Only the largest Black Holes and subatomic particles remained.
As I finish recording these log entries, I feel....nothing anymore, much like this barren abyssal desert. I have personally watched the very last black hole evaporate. Oh of course there are still some photons, neutrinos, electrons and even some positrons, but they cannot interact anymore and I suspect they will eventually disappear too. As the universe continues to expand beyond and beyond, gets colder and colder..and I remain...alone....in the darkness.