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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's true. I recounted them three times.
- giantrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Richard Feynman once made a similar observation. He said that numbers that once only appeared in astronomy now are dwarfed by the ones that appear in economics.
He said that instead of calling huge numbers "astronomical", we probably should be calling them "economic".
Source: the introductory part of the book "Feynman's Last Lecture" - warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It is statisical impossibility that we are alone in this galaxy let alone the universe. The real question is whether it is sentient life and if we'll ever be able to travel the vast distances.
- TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Statistical improbability*
I hope we never meet aliens, the ones we have invented are probably a lot cooler. - stoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What if there was an alien as small as an ant but 9.99x10^600 times smarter than all humans and flew a ship with its brain.
heheheh alright whatever. - Bega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Please purple people eater don't eat me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If every star in this galaxy was a desktop, earth would be Ubuntu :D
- bjsiders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Numbers of this size defy comprehension. But if every star in this galaxy was a US dollar, we'd need about 8 and a half Andromedas worth of dollars to pay off the public debt. How's that for perspective?
- Burgerman851, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"The two galaxies are expected to collide in roughly 5 billion years."
Forget global warming; we've got a *real* problem here. - lbermude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think there might be a lot of life in other planets in our and other galaxies.
I am not too sure about Intelligent life forms. Those are so far inexistant in the known universe. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's friggin obvious there are extra-terretrial life in the universe. Should we contact them? We better not.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm with Stephen Hawking. Throughout history, only one thing has happened when a superior civilization contacts an inferior civilization.
The only question is whether or not it would be worth it to meet the aliens anyway. Being a basic human instinct to know everything around itself, I'd choose to meet the aliens. - bairy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're right, of course, but the headline "Andromeda galaxy hosts about 985 billion, 735 million, 381 thousand, 274 stars" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
- heffer2k02, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4A trillion. What a perfectly round number. What are the chances!
My fingertip has about 10 billion atoms in it. Sounds about right huh? - g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ya know they are planning a 3rd series, and a new movie.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh good another galaxy for a Stargate spinoff
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough.
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For some reason I think of Mulder, who spent his whole adult life looking for aliens when in fact he should have been running 180 degrees in the opposite direction. When he finally found them what did they do? Put him in a torture chair and poked and prodded him until he died.
- 21chrisp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Waldense
I don't get it... - luvkit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Humor aside, galactic collisions aren't that harmful for the individual stars/solar systems within the galaxies. The universe is more densely populated with galaxies than galaxies are populated with stars. Therefore, statistically galaxies run into each other at a higher ratio than stars do. Just expect the night sky to get brighter.
- aphexcoil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nor do most Christians ...
- Anomaly427, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For me, the very existance of things like irregular stars near the center of Andromeda (from TFA) prove the non-existance of God. I mean, why bother placing it there?. We don't look that close and praise God's attention to detail - that's for sure.
- randomracoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would you please stop taking credit for Chuck Norris's work? Jeez...
- Waldense, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - MorningCoder, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1No, you missed the dim one at the center.
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