The Strangest Question at the end of the Universe

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Our energy demands are exploding. Natural hydrogen might be the breakthrough we need. MAX Power Mining just discovered North America’s first commercially viable natural hydrogen deposit. Clean, renewable energy straight from the Earth. Learn more: https://www.maxpowermining.com/ The year is 2061. Two engineers stand before a machine and ask it the only question that has ever really mattered, can the death of the universe be undone? The machine considers, and answers: not enough data. So the question is asked again. And again. Across a hundred thousand years, across galaxies humanity has not yet touched, the question returns, and the answer never changes. Not once, all the way to the end of time itself. This is the world of Isaac Asimov's The Last Question, a story most people remember as a meditation on limits, on the one problem too large for any civilization to solve. But there is another way to read it. Because every time these people leap forward, every time they build something

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