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To: Pollard

Wow. In just a tiny corner, the vastness of space. I am guessing a trillion stars in this photo. Good Lord, maybe closer to a quadrillion...


12 posted on 07/11/2022 3:49:24 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: fhayek
"Wow. In just a tiny corner, the vastness of space. I am guessing a trillion stars in this photo. Good Lord, maybe closer to a quadrillion..."

Makes you realize how insignificant we are. Here's a picture that does that for me.

Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU).

27 posted on 07/11/2022 4:03:59 PM PDT by blam
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To: fhayek

A quadrillion stars sounds like a likely number and the odds for life being all over the place is astronomical.


42 posted on 07/11/2022 4:21:24 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: fhayek
"I am guessing a trillion stars in this photo."

I am guessing a trillion galaxies in this photo...

63 posted on 07/11/2022 5:02:47 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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