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Rokenn

01-31-2003 10:59 AM

Interesting quote a friend sent me today:

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)

LordKathen

01-31-2003 11:16 AM

Right on man. [img]smile.gif[/img] :D

Yorick

01-31-2003 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rokenn:
Interesting quote a friend sent me today:

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)

Just in our galaxy? That is incredible. I wasn't aware of that. Thanks mate. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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