I have that in my front room, much more accessible: Star Theatre Planetarium - buy at Firebox.com
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post"There are more stars than there are grains of sand" is a much more interesting postulation though. Unlikely to be true though.
And there are thought to be 8 billion billions grains of sand on our planet (that's planet Earth to most on here ).
Calculator anyone ?
Such an interesting area
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"There are more stars than there are grains of sand" is a much more interesting postulation though. Unlikely to be true though.
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostThat's whatyou, me and everyone else with the capability ofI thoughtunderstood that to mean.but I am thick as tulip and can't really process bigger thoughts than "food" and "shag" so that's not saying much
I assume Kaiser realised that his original statement was unclear, as he clarified it.
In any case Kaiser and I were in agreement in that the numbers involved are mind blowing.
As you can only count to 20 if you take your shoes off, a mind blowing number to you would be letters in the alphabet!
HTH dickwad!
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Still I cannot comprehend that light takes 10 million years to travel the distance between those two yellow lines.
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Originally posted by Dactylion View Post<Pedant>
Presumably you need to qualify that statement somewhat?
Because of all the stars in our galaxy many of them will have planets, and many of them will have sand (however you define More stars in our galaxy than grains of sand....
.... on a beach
.... in the sahara
.... in the earths oceans
.... in the earths deserts
.... on the earth
sand).
So no matter how many stars there are - the grains of sand to star ratio must still favour sand. (I know there will be countless stars without sandy planets, but as each sandy planet has millions/billions of grains of sand)
</Pedant>
But the numbers are as you say are mind blowing.
More stars in our galaxy than grains of sand....
....on the earth
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Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post+1 - always been fascinated by whats up there.
My biggest pondering point is that there are more stars in our galaxy than grains of sand (and there are 600 million known galaxies out there).
Totally mind blowing !!
Presumably you need to qualify that statement somewhat?
More stars in our galaxy than grains of sand....
.... on a beach
.... in the sahara
.... in the earths oceans
.... in the earths deserts
.... on the earth
Because of all the stars in our galaxy many of them will have planets, and many of them will have sand (however you define sand).
So no matter how many stars there are - the grains of sand to star ratio must still favour sand. (I know there will be countless stars without sandy planets, but as each sandy planet has millions/billions of grains of sand)
</Pedant>
But the numbers are as you say are mind blowing.
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+1 - always been fascinated by whats up there.
My biggest pondering point is that there are more stars in our galaxy than grains of sand (and there are 600 million known galaxies out there).
Totally mind blowing !!
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Cosmic 'web' seen for first time
Looks like the neurones and pathways of the brain. But no scale is rather different. This just blows my mind.
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