Try hundreds of BILLIONS of stars

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Socrates II — 4/21/2009 7:20:59 PM (archived)

The Milky Way has about 400 billion stars and there are roughly 100
billion galaxies in the known Universe. So that makes about 70 septillion
suns, give or take a few.

Add in 13.7 billion years to cook up the ingredients and wallah - reality
TV shows and Paris Hilton!

Oy.

"I can't help thinking that somewhere in the Universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be." - Charlton Heston, Planet of
the Apes (1968)

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Latest News on the Evidence for Aliens Front - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 6:29:15 PM
- All those discoveries make life more and more improbable! (n/t) - Raoul - 4/21/2009 6:37:00 PM
  - You cannot make a statement like that without some validation behind it - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 7:17:12 PM
    - Probabilities - Raoul - 4/21/2009 8:13:52 PM
      - It is still very early in the game - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 9:18:24 PM
  - re: No way! A SINGLE galaxy cotains hundreds of millions of stars. Hubble Deep Field - Vince - 4/21/2009 7:12:19 PM
    - What we see is an extraordinary variety of worlds !!! - Raoul - 4/21/2009 8:28:08 PM
      - There is plenty of evidence for liquid water under Europa's ice surface - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 9:05:41 PM
        
        We don't know yet what lies under the surface of Europa's icy crust - Raoul - 4/21/2009 9:36:37 PM
        
        This Web site goes into great deal about the Europan ocean - Socrates II - 4/22/2009 4:10:09 PM
        
        ESA NASA Jupiter missions - Raoul - 4/22/2009 5:01:55 PM
    - Try hundreds of BILLIONS of stars - Socrates II - 4/21/2009 7:20:59 PM
      - Oldest and most distant water in the Universe found - Socrates II - 4/22/2009 2:13:21 PM

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