Astronomers say that there are 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe.

With this piece of information, how can anyone think that the earth is the only inhabited planet?

i agree.

so do i.

co-sign

we are not alone

Just to try and put this in perspective (as if!), does anybody have any idea how our sun compares to the average star? Bigger than average, smaller than average, about average? Armed with that info I reckon I'll be able to grasp the scale of the universe!

sabaisabai said:

Our sun is a small star... technically, a yellow dwarf.

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[This message was edited Tue Jul 22 7:36:32 PDT 2003 by IceNine]

IceNine said:

True, the sun is a yellow dwarf, but it will eventually become a red giant in about 5 billion years, as it runs out of fuel... the core will collapse into a white dwarf of approximately the size of the earth and then it will die and become a black dwarf... thus is the life of the sun.

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damn what mf'er counted all of them

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IceNine said:

That makes the universe pretty big then Can you explain yellow dwarf?

Another comment in the article I read (at www.theage.com.au) demonstrated the shear size of the universe: Dr Driver said the entire universe was so big that no telescope could see it all - light from the other side "hasn't reached us yet". Also the bit about 70K mio mio mio being ten times the number of grains of sand on the earth is pretty daunting.

With figures this large, there's very little we can do to get our heads around them. I mean, the number of grains of sand on the earth might be a starting place, but do you realize just how many grains that is? It's really a lot of fucking grains of sand...our little brains were not designed to perceive such astronomical quantities.

Since evolution is generally accepted as the model of mans origin, who R we 2 say that other civilizations arent springing up in an endless time frame. They may be much further along the evolutionary scale than we are?! But lets not hope in a nasty way!
I do believe that there is other intelligent life in the universe due 2 its great vastness and aray of stars and planets. The chances R that even though there may be biliions upon billions of planets with similar climates 2 that of earth, we would have no way of knowing.
[This message was edited Tue Jul 22 7:50:36 PDT 2003 by JDINTERACTIVE]

sabaisabai said:

Technically speaking, a "dwarf" star is simply a star that is of normal size in relation to mass. As far as size goes, the sun is kind of middle of the road... it is average at best. It is not the hottest or biggest star out there, but it does the job quite well. There are certainly more massive stars out there, but they are also VERY hot and would not be a good fit for life as we know it.

teller said:

The number is actually higher than all the grains of sand in all the beaches and deserts of the earth.

:O

IceNine said:

And I'm one of them!!

StanleyApplebaum said:

I actually heard somewhere more around 10 billion years from more than one sourse

Chico319 said:

righteous1 said:

The lifespan of a yellow dwarf is about 10 billion years in total... the universe is about 5 billion years old, therefore the sun has about 5 billion years of life left.

What's all this talk of yellow dwarves?

Cloudbuster said:

Well, we could talk about white dwarves if you wish.

IceNine said:

Hmm, good theory Ice, I really like these kind of threads that you start, like about alien life and space science, but of course you can expect that from someone who visits www.space.com

IceNine said:

please, they prefer to be called "caucasian little people"

righteous1 said:

What does www.space.com have to do with anything???

I saw the story about the number of stars on CNN today and thought that I would start a thread... the life of yellow dwarves and various stars is pretty common knowledge for anyone who is even remotely interested in science.

cborgman said:

A dwarf is a dwarf.

Cloudbuster said:

Chico319 said:

Shine on U crazy diamond.

Chico319 said:

you are definately an org

Yeah, we are not alone...

There's eyes everywhere!!!








(fucking tripod.com edit)
[This message was edited Tue Jul 22 11:03:25 PDT 2003 by June7]

this is the smallest star in the universe

and dwarf

June7 said:

tripod terrifies me too, june!!