[QUOTE=petieng;26444526]3x10^23 seems like a pretty big number, but...
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Holy [I][B]FUCK[/B][/I][/QUOTE]
fucking what
I counted them say thank you.
And yet sadly the large majority of our governments or population don't really give a shit.
[QUOTE=petieng;26444526]3x10^23 seems like a pretty big number, but...
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Holy [I][B]FUCK[/B][/I][/QUOTE]
There's thought to be around 10^79-10^81 atoms in the world. Note that is only atoms, not neutrinos and dark matter (There's said that around 500 billion neutrinos go through you per second, JUST through ONE PERSON, also around a trillion dark matter particles would go through you (estimated)) so you can kinda think how big that number might just very well go. (10^86?)
:psyboom:
That's alot of fucking stars.
Steve Jobs is probably still richer than that
That's a lot of zeros.
[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;26449184]Steve Jobs is probably still richer than that[/QUOTE]
I think this is a few thousand times more than any amount of money that exists in the world... in any currency. Or maybe every currency. At the same time, ten times over. I don't care, it's so ridiculously huge you can fit anything in there.
This is why I love space, the odds of finding life keeps increasing. There could be billions of alien races in those star systems, and even more planets. To top things off with the discovery of species who can survive other environments (the bacteria thing NASA released earlier), even the uninhabitable planets could have life.
[QUOTE=BmB;26449523]I think this is a few thousand times more than any amount of money that exists in the world... in any currency. Or maybe every currency. At the same time, ten times over. I don't care, it's so ridiculously huge you can fit anything in there.[/QUOTE]
Even in Zimbabwe dollars?
i kind of had to type that number in notepad to comprehend it fully
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;26445279]And yet sadly the large majority of our governments or population don't really give a shit.[/QUOTE]
It's the government's job to protect us, not look at pretty lights.
this makes me feel small and insignificant.
in a good way
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;26451187]It's the government's job to protect us, not look at pretty lights.[/QUOTE]
Because privately funded research is much better, right?
You're obviously not a scientist, nor do you know anything related to what's best for funding it. So shut the fuck up with your ideology, sit down, and realize that most of the scientific and technical knowledge you take for granted it because a government helped to fund it in some way.
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;26452436]Because privately funded research is much better, right?
You're obviously not a scientist, nor do you know anything related to what's best for funding it. So shut the fuck up with your ideology, sit down, and realize that most of the scientific and technical knowledge you take for granted it because a government helped to fund it in some way.[/QUOTE]
Something is wrong with you. I wasn't here to start an arguement.
Please, sit back and calm down before you post.
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There are more important things (i.e. everything) to spend money on right now.
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;26453105]Something is wrong with you. I wasn't here to start an arguement.
Please, sit back and calm down before you post.
[editline]2nd December 2010[/editline]
There are more important things (i.e. everything) to spend money on right now.[/QUOTE]
Nothing is more important than the scientific understanding of our universe. We're not poor yet, the economy is improving (just), and funding research creates jobs.
Have a problem with any of that?
And really, you go into a science/astronomy topic and say how you think science is the least important thing and expect it to not start an argument? Are you functionally retarded or are you just that fucking dense?
[QUOTE=BmB;26449523]I think this is a few thousand times more than any amount of money that exists in the world... in any currency. Or maybe every currency. At the same time, ten times over. I don't care, it's so ridiculously huge you can fit anything in there.[/QUOTE]
Unless we start using grains of sand as currency, a man can dream.
There's a lot of stars, we don't need to count them right now.
[QUOTE=Walrus.;26453422]Unless we start using grains of sand as currency, a man can dream.[/QUOTE]
In one hour, all beaches will be drained of sand. :v:
This only fuels my wishes to go into astronomy.
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;26453310]Nothing is more important than the scientific understanding of our universe. We're not poor yet, the economy is improving (just), and funding research creates jobs.
Have a problem with any of that?
And really, you go into a science/astronomy topic and say how you think science is the least important thing and expect it to not start an argument? Are you functionally retarded or are you just that fucking dense?[/QUOTE]
Please reread my post once again, then use your wonderful ability to comprehend the english language and realize that I [B]never[/B] said science is the least important thing. For my sanity and yours, don't make baseless assumptions. Maybe you should try anger management. There appears to be a consistent theme of over-reaction in all of your posts. You are starting the argument, as a matter of fact.
Science is important. The scientific understanding of the universe, especially something as trivial as the number of stars, means nothing right now during a recession.
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;26454368]Please reread my post once again, then use your wonderful ability to comprehend the english language and realize that I [B]never[/B] said science is the least important thing. For my sanity and yours, don't make baseless assumptions. Maybe you should try anger management. There appears to be a consistent theme of over-reaction in all of your posts. You are starting the argument, as a matter of fact.
Science is important. The scientific understanding of the universe, especially something as trivial as the number of stars, means nothing right now during a recession.[/QUOTE]
but that's wrong
Listen, what you are doing is coming into a thread about science where the posters are in awe and are in thrall to the mysteries of the universe, and then stating that the universtanding of the universe has no place because our economies aren't doing as well as they have been. This is a recipe for disaster and I can only advise you to desist.
Every part of science ALWAYS has a place, even the stuff that you people think is useless like those sociological studies. It's a vital investment for the future (as even the UK cost-cutting coalition government has realised), and critical to the advancement of the human race.
[i]sex[/i]tillian :smug:
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;26454368]Please reread my post once again, then use your wonderful ability to comprehend the english language and realize that I [B]never[/B] said science is the least important thing. For my sanity and yours, don't make baseless assumptions. Maybe you should try anger management. There appears to be a consistent theme of over-reaction in all of your posts. You are starting the argument, as a matter of fact.
Science is important. The scientific understanding of the universe, especially something as trivial as the number of stars, means nothing right now during a recession.[/QUOTE]
You actually did say science is the least important.
[quote=HolyCrusade]There are more important things (i.e. everything) to spend money on right now.[/quote]
Not that I want to feed this argument, of course. Just pointing it out.
I calculated the probable number of intelligent civilizations in the universe by running it through the Drake Equation with the variables Carl Sagan used in this video.
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[release]Number of stars • Fraction of stars that have planets • Planets suitable for life • Planets where life actually arises • Probability of life becoming intelligent • Probability of life developing technology • Probability of life not being destroyed by itself or some other event = Probable number of intelligent civilizations[/release]
3.0x10²³ • 1/4 • 2 • 1/2 • 1/10 • 1/10 • 1/1 million =
[highlight][b]750 quadrillion (750,000,000,000,000) intlelligent civilizations.[/b][/highlight]
[b]Sex[/b]tellion?
That's the only number I need to know :smug:
It's weird because I estimated a while ago that the universe has around a septillion (10e+24) stars. I was only seven hundred sextillion off!
That's it? I realize that that is a massive number, but we have the entire universe! Seems disappointing to be limited to a number like that.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;26455127]I realize that that is a massive number[/QUOTE]
Nah, not really. You couldn't possibly hope to grasp the true magnitude of this number.
Besides, that's only our observable universe. The unseen universe no doubt contains many more stars.
Now, what's the number of atoms in the universe? :smug:
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