Thursday, December 2, 2010

300 Sextillion Stars, But We're Special!

I'm blown away. I can't even comprehend the number.

Number of Stars in the Universe

However, it does help put some perspective around human arrogance:

God put his special people on a puny planet that is third from a medium-sized star (of which there are approximately 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) in a medium-sized galaxy (of which there are anywhere from 100,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000) ?

... and we're the only life in it?

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