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We will never find out everything on earth. At least not in our lifetimes.

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wow. thats deep.

Its more important to know God. We can through Jesus

Not discovering everything isn't sad at all. What would be much more depressing would be actually finding out everything, and realizing that there's nothing else left.

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On the scale of things to be sad about lack of knowledge about the space events you listed does not rank high.

For example above your concerns I suspect most would prefer to have knowledge about the cancer or whatever other malady is happening inside their body that will prematurely end their life. Would you not trade that knowledge against the things you listed?

We are not in /r/Medicine but /r/space so to fit the interests of this community consider the space event X that will inevitably (and perhaps relatively imminently) end our biosphere on earth. Can anything be more worrying than a lack of knowledge about X?

As soon as you know all there is to know about something, it loses all interest.

How do you feel about arithmetic?

I look at as "we will never run out of things to discover".

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Honestly, I'd be a lot more sad, if we ran out of things to figure out. What's the point of advancing, if there is no more to learn from the advancements.

More important then what?

We’ll never find out everything that’s going on in a tennis ball. It's called 'science' - we learn more and more about everything - forever.

It will take many, many lifetimes for "us" to learn more about the universe and our place in it. It may also take ongoing evolution of our brains to be able to ponder things we are currently incapable of even conceiving. It may even turn out that our brain evolution has limitations that will prevent us from truly understanding.

Based on what we know so far, we are the only planet with sentient life on it, and quite a large part of humanity doesn't consider that we may be rendering our only home uninhabitable. If we're to feel sad, that is where need to focus our energies - how to ensure that our home continues to be habitable for generations to come, while we continue to probe the boundaries of our ignorance.

Correct. Most of it is deep.

I disagree with you. My personal motivation to study physics has everything to do with burning curiosity and nothing to do with the romanticization of ignorance. I do not enjoy the failure of my pursuits.

My life is not fulfilled by the opportunity for discovery, it is filled by endless toiling labour, most of which will be fruitless. I do not believe that the discovery of everything would leave humanity bereft of purpose; it would provide an opportunity to apply the total human understanding of the universe to the ultimate betterment of each individual human being such that the subjective experience of suffering would be permeantly eliminated.

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The point is to experience the universe in a way that maximizes pleasure and reduces suffering.

All the giggles, and none of the sniffles!

Your my kinda person boss

We have found out what the great attractor is, its the centre of the laniakea supercluster, it's just that it's obscured by the centre of the milky way so we couldn't see it without IR observatories

No, I honestly think it would be more depressing to have all the answers. Nothing left to discover or dream about.

Than to know space or earth

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