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We've got 4000 billion star systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone

Socrates II — 3/4/2008 2:45:42 PM (archived)

Why waste time on one little star?

If we haven't long spread out into the galaxy well before Sol
goes bye-bye, it will be because we went extinct.

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The Sun will swallow the Earth in 7.6 Billion years - Raoul - 3/2/2008 9:31:43 AM
- We'll just move the Homeworld Galactic Preserve to another star. (n/t) - TB - 3/2/2008 4:03:43 PM
- An interesting limit? - nick hoffman - 3/2/2008 12:10:17 PM
  - Bury the oceans? - Adam - 3/3/2008 8:46:49 AM
    - Stellar Engineering - REB - 3/3/2008 2:15:11 PM
      - You've got a bit of basic physics working AGAINST you there - nick hoffman - 3/3/2008 11:33:37 PM
        
        Won't the big Rip pull those atoms apart? - TAFKASE - 3/4/2008 7:41:27 PM
        
        If the Universe accelerates, perhaps in 20 Billion years... - Raoul - 3/4/2008 8:52:11 PM
        
        That thought had occured to me - REB - 3/4/2008 2:02:47 PM
        
        We've got 4000 billion star systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone - Socrates II - 3/4/2008 2:45:42 PM
        
        Just nit-piking...by an order of magnitude - ER - 3/4/2008 7:11:51 PM
        
        My finger slip - Socrates II - 3/4/2008 8:06:17 PM
        
        And to add - Socrates II - 3/4/2008 10:31:24 PM
  - re: The limit - Raoul - 3/2/2008 4:16:35 PM
  - re: An interesting limit? - Bowser - 3/2/2008 4:14:32 PM

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