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Captain Leela, having heroically secured our supply of space air, I present you the DOOP's highest honor, the Medal of Valor.
It's pronounced velour.
S8 E8Zapp Gets Canceled
S8 E9The Prince and the Product
Leela, where were you? It's been, like, 30 minutes.
I was falling in love with the Prince of Space. We're getting married! I know this is very sudden, Fry. I'll always remember the times we had that I haven't already forgotten.
Futurama is brought to you by... Windos! The toy so fun, it makes fun look like boredom!
I've had a full life. I eat-ed. I prayed. I loved-ed. I'm at peace.
At peace? At peace?! You selfish jerk! You're my best friend! Promise you won't leave me!
Wha... What happened? Am I alive?
If you were dead, how could you ask such a dumb question? You're as alive and stupid as ever!
Are you the guru of the mountain?
MGMagda the Gypsybot
For a quarter, I'm a guru. For a nickel, you get a sticker that says you climbed the mountain.
S8 E10All the Way Down
So, do those people in the casserole know they're in a simulation, or do they think that they're real?
Of course, they think they're real. To them, the rules of my software are just their laws of physics.
But, we think we're real. Couldn't our universe also be a simulation?
Absolutely not! No chance. The very idea is preposterous!
How can you be so sure?
Because it's computationally impossible! For example, every atom in the universe is affected whenever one little thing moves.
Like my ass? Oh yeah!
That's a perfect example, Bender, and some pretty decent twerking. My software can't possibly compute the gravitational changes between Bender's ass and every other particle, so I had to have the information travel outward gradually, at a fixed speed.
Like the speed of light in our universe?
Right! Oh, fuff. That's just a coincidence. I had to cut other corners, too. I mean, my simulation doesn't even keep track of exactly where everything is. [...] Another convenient example. My lazy software wouldn't even decide which cup the ball's in until someone actually looked at it. Until then, it's just sort of in both.
So your programming shortcut is like quantum mechanics in our world?
Exactly like that! Hm, interesting. I guess what I'm trying to say is our universe is probably also a simulation.
But that's the exact opposite of what you said one minute ago!
New evidence was presented and I changed my mind. I'm a scientist, not a...
Idiot?
...politician.
SASimulated Amy
Professor, if you can make a whole simulated universe, isn't it possible that our own universe is also a simulation?
SSimulated Professor
Absolutely not! You sound like a stoned freshman!
SASimulated Amy
I mean, what if our laws of physics are just the computer code of some big brilliant professor playing god up there?
Nailed it!
SSimulated Professor
Hm. Quantum mechanics is pretty ridiculous, but it's a moot point. Even if we are living in a simulation, there's no possible way of knowing. [...]
SASimulated Amy
If our universe is a simulation, then it's running on some kind of computer, right? [...] Suppose we made something happen that was impossible for that big computer to simulate.
SSimulated Professor
It would overload! [...]
SASimulated Amy
Probably stuff would pixelate and look weird!
SSimulated Professor
The laws of physics would fail!
SFSimulated Fry
Like playing a new video game on a crummy underpowered game system!
SLSimulated Leela
Honestly. I wanna know if I'm not living in a simulation, but not if I am. Does that make sense?
SSimulated Professor
We're about to find out if we're living in a simulation! [...]
SFSimulated Fry
I think it makes no difference at all. Either way, the laws of the universe are way beyond our control. So, what can we do? We just make the best of it.
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