Talk:1822: Existential Bug Reports
Could the crisis be tied to the fact that SUPPORT for the hardware is now broken, so the issue itself and the workaround may not get successfully submitted, recorded, seen, or addressed? --BigMal // 162.158.75.52 14:54, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
It may (or may not) be worthy of note that this mirrors 2016 Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson's workaround for global warming. When asked about it he said, "Should we take the long-term view when it comes to global warming? I think that we should. And the long-term view is that in billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the Earth, right." --162.158.69.243 17:22, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
- That was also the first thought I had reading this comics, though I couldn't remember the name of the candidate ^^'. This seems to me a caricature of this "workaround". --162.158.6.88 08:10, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
There are workarounds for Earth being devoured by the sun. Here's a few. Five and seven seem somewhat plausible. Also, we could leave the planet. A worse problem is the heat death of the universe. DanielLC (talk) 19:08, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
- Put the link in the explanation, thanks. The time scale for the heath death is so much longer than the lifetime of the sun, even as a White dwarf, that the suns entire lifetime compared to the time scale of the heath death is twice as small as the suns lifetime compared to the timescale of the inflation period of the universe... So lets start by worrying about the oceans leaving in 1.1 billion years as the Sun gets too hot... ;-) --Kynde (talk) 20:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
It's okay, I have a super soaker. ~AgentMuffin
- The last panel of 220: Philosophy is even used on Wikipedia's xkcd article ;-) --Kynde (talk) 20:34, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Alternative workaround for the Sun issue: stop waiting
Reading the title text, I couldn't help myself from thinking "Workaround: stop waiting". This is reference to Ivan Kmínek's story "Živý jste byl lepší, pane" (You were better alive, sir) which revolves around the central theme of a computer ready to initiate nuclear inferno and just waiting for the order to do so. It has some basic AI and develops it further while talking with its - or his - operator. Being childishly curious and unaware of all the consequences, one day he just decides himself, without the order being issued, to stop waiting ... Sorry for the spoiler, however I doubt anyone outside Czechoslovakia would have any opportunity to read this short story (and not many Czechs know Kmínek anyways), which is a pity, because the way it is written I consider it a masterpiece that would perfectly fit, and shine in the better half or third, between some Ray Bradbury's collected stories (while everyone knows Bradbury, right?) --172.68.215.102 07:49, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
