<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pixl97</author><text>Causality is fun. The order in which things happen can be different for different observers. With light on earth humans don&amp;#x27;t generally experience this because of the small distances involved. But you can design an experiment with sound where 3 observers are placed in a large field and 3 loud noises are made, and each observer will tell you the noises occurred in a different order.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>&amp;gt; this has all happened already , but we&amp;#x27;re observing it now.&lt;p&gt;In a real sense, it only happens when the light from it reaches you.  Reality propagates at the speed of light.</text></item><item><author>Moral_</author><text>Is it a balloon? &amp;#x2F;s&lt;p&gt;“One possibility is that X7’s gas and dust were ejected at the moment when two stars merged,” Ciurlo said. “In this process, the merged star is hidden inside a shell of dust and gas, which might fit the description of the G objects. And the ejected gas perhaps produced X7-like objects.”&lt;p&gt;This is pretty interesting, so much ejection due to a merger that the light is no longer visible.&lt;p&gt;Space stories like this always melt my mind because this has all happened already , but we&amp;#x27;re observing it now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center</title><url>https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/X7-debris-cloud-near-supermassive-black-hole</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prettyStandard</author><text>I think about this often. Is this reality&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;update loop&amp;quot;[0]?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&amp;#x2F;game-loop.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&amp;#x2F;game-loop.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>&amp;gt; this has all happened already , but we&amp;#x27;re observing it now.&lt;p&gt;In a real sense, it only happens when the light from it reaches you.  Reality propagates at the speed of light.</text></item><item><author>Moral_</author><text>Is it a balloon? &amp;#x2F;s&lt;p&gt;“One possibility is that X7’s gas and dust were ejected at the moment when two stars merged,” Ciurlo said. “In this process, the merged star is hidden inside a shell of dust and gas, which might fit the description of the G objects. And the ejected gas perhaps produced X7-like objects.”&lt;p&gt;This is pretty interesting, so much ejection due to a merger that the light is no longer visible.&lt;p&gt;Space stories like this always melt my mind because this has all happened already , but we&amp;#x27;re observing it now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center</title><url>https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/X7-debris-cloud-near-supermassive-black-hole</url></story>