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To: Little Pig
It is hard to comprehend a figure like 100 trillion.

Our national debt is now approximately 100 trillion nickels.

If one star in 100,000 in that galaxy has a planet with conditions suitable for life, there would be 1 billion planets with conditions suitable for life. And still none with chocolate.

27 posted on 03/02/2016 11:46:27 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Hey, for all we know, there’s a planet in there somewhere with some kind of Superchocolate. A billion habitable-by-life-as-we-know-it planets allows for a pretty large set of possible variations on life and development.

I really hate posts about other galaxies like the OP, because then I go looking for info on the subject, and inevitably end up looking at all the incredible deep-field and distant galactic cluster pics and wishing there was a way to go and explore them. Wife and I both agree that, if given the opportunity, we would (pretty much without hesitation) take any visiting extraterrestrial’s invitation to leave Earth forever, just for the adventure it represents.


28 posted on 03/02/2016 12:01:55 PM PST by Little Pig
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To: Verginius Rufus
It is hard to comprehend a figure like 100 trillion.


59 posted on 03/03/2016 7:05:08 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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