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Old 01-31-2003, 12:17 PM   #3
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
Location: Breukelen (over the river from New Amsterdam)
Age: 53
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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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