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GiqueCee

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15. Try counting...

Reply to Shermann (Reply #3)

Sun May 26, 2024, 02:52 PM

May 2024

... the number of galaxies in just that wee patch of space. Now tile together a complete sphere in which we stand. Still counting? Of course you are. And that's just the galaxies, each of which contains a gazillion stars, give or take a squillion.
It is statistically impossible for there NOT to be other life forms out there, a great many of which may well look upon us as quaintly archaic, and more than a little dangerous. Hell, I look on us as quaintly archaic, and more than a little dangerous.

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