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		jmclnx 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much soo... >Because the researchers were at it anyway, they also calculated how long it takes for the moon and a human to evaporate via Hawking-like radiation. That's 10^90 years. Well I can predict the next trend, launching very rich people's body into space so it will last 10^90 years :)

pixl97 8 months ago [–]

Depends what you mean by last.

Over periods of time that long it's much more likely you'll run into some other object, say fall into a gravity well or something like that.

Even if you don't, pure erosion from neutral hydrogen and space dust will have disintegrated your capsule long before then.

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