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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 04 2009,13:43  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
A very, very small section of the universe around the Milky Way.

Each dot is a galaxy. (There are about 100,000 in that picture.)

Each galaxy represents an average of 100 billion stars.

That is a shit ton of potential M class worlds.
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I'm still thinking there's some bacteria, right now, living under the surface of Mars or Titan.

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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 04 2009,14:58 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
To quote Keanu Reeves: "Whoa"

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"Whoa" happens when we figure out a way to traverse vast amounts of space in shorter amounts of times.

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Diogenes of Sinope:

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."

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Scientists slightly off about size of Milky Way.
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Our Milky Way galaxy is approximately 50 percent larger than what common estimates once were
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“What we see now is that this apparent ring is actually a ripple in the disk. And it may well be that there are more ripples further out which we have not yet seen,” Xu continued.

50% at least.

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"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."

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Yeah but there was a consensus.

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