Author Topic: Something to think about! (Read 5038 times)

Skywalker · « **on:** August 15, 2007, 09:17:51 AM »

There are far more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the entire earth! Just think how much sand there is on earth... a fuckload!

"What is the total number of galaxies in the universe? Sagan assumed 100 billion. Is that still valid? Recently the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) surveyed, to the faintest levels yet detected, a small area of sky. Extrapolating from the number of galaxies detected by HST to that expected over the whole sky, I calculate 130 billion galaxies, slightly larger than Sagans estimate. Then the number of stars in the universe is 400 billion x 130 billion, or about 50,000 billion billion. A billion billion. That's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. So, grasp the concept of a billion billion, then think of 50 thousand of those. Easy!

The total number of sand grains on our Earth beach is then 600 billion billion. But wait!, I hear some of you remarking about sand dunes and sand below the low tide mark. To placate you worriers I'm happy to increase my initial estimate by a factor of 3. That gives me a grand total of about 2000 billion billion grains of sand on Earth.

The stars win!"

the above quote is from this fascinating link:

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/billions.html

Drew · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2007, 02:34:37 AM »

Add to that all the sand it Steve's vagina...man that is a ton of sand. I can't believe there are even more stars.

Skywalker · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2007, 04:13:16 AM »

Ha ha ha... instant classic!

Mikal · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2007, 12:21:24 AM »

Bazing!

Drew · « **Reply #4 on:** August 26, 2007, 11:54:56 PM »

10 days with no postings. It seems even unprovoked insults are not enough to generate some traffic.

Mikal · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:35:57 PM »

Yes Andrew, the times they are a changing.

Bob · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2007, 04:10:32 PM »

Maybe we have to get a little more rude? You dirty slut.

Drew · « **Reply #7 on:** August 30, 2007, 01:10:11 AM »

Friggin' cock mongers.

Skywalker · « **Reply #8 on:** August 30, 2007, 07:08:24 AM »

In order to promote activity on the site my avitar has grown a gnarly moustache... douchebags!

Aquabat · « **Reply #9 on:** August 30, 2007, 04:35:14 PM »

If a gnarly moustache doesn't do it, I do not know what will.
Is that freakin' Tony Stark???