Comments on: The Estimated Number of Stars in the Universe Just Tripled http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mike Hicks http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-35005 Mike Hicks Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:21:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-35005 This means there are half as many stars in the universe as molecules in a handful of salt. I wonder if there are any aliens in my hand. This means there are half as many stars in the universe as molecules in a handful of salt. I wonder if there are any aliens in my hand.

]]> By: John McCue http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23935 John McCue Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:39:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23935 Some concepts are very difficult to wrap one's head around, infinity being one. It is easy to say but hard to envisage. But the classic Einsteinian description of the Universe as finite but unbounded doesn't make much sense to me either. There are some snarkey comments here, leading me to suspect those posters are immature. Some concepts are very difficult to wrap one’s head around, infinity being one. It is easy to say but hard to envisage. But the classic Einsteinian description of the Universe as finite but unbounded doesn’t make much sense to me either.

There are some snarkey comments here, leading me to suspect those posters are immature.

]]> By: Allan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23934 Allan Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:56:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23934 I guess we [the men of science] will get it right eventually. Much safer to stick with theological explanations where we [the hallelulia brigade] have known the truth all the way along. Apart from the bits we got wrong. It would be nice to get a proper explanation of all of this. I should live that long. I guess we [the men of science] will get it right eventually. Much safer to stick with theological explanations where we [the hallelulia brigade] have known the truth all the way along. Apart from the bits we got wrong. It would be nice to get a proper explanation of all of this. I should live that long.

]]> By: Bobbo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23932 Bobbo Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:35:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23932 Universe is probably infinite. If one zero is added to the estimated number of stars every 3,5,10 years than effectively the Universe is infinite, cause time don't stop. Universe is probably infinite.

If one zero is added to the estimated number of stars every 3,5,10 years than effectively the Universe is infinite, cause time don’t stop.

]]> By: Stephen Ellison http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23931 Stephen Ellison Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:43:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23931 I have never seen such a collection of ignorant knowitalls. What do you all do with your time? The guy above who had the least to say, has far more wisdom than the rest of you combined. You'll all be dead soon, and fools will tear up your folly without even reading the title. More fools will supersede you and they in turn will be shown by their successors to be of no value. Get to the business end and work out something useful like "........the chicken or the egg", because most of you haven't got the basic common sense to ponder the obvious. No hopers! O and you Brendon 24 ... Yes! and Yes! I have never seen such a collection of ignorant knowitalls. What do you all do with your time? The guy above who had the least to say, has far more wisdom than the rest of you combined. You’ll all be dead soon, and fools will tear up your folly without even reading the title. More fools will supersede you and they in turn will be shown by their successors to be of no value. Get to the business end and work out something useful like “……..the chicken or the egg”, because most of you haven’t got the basic common sense to ponder the obvious. No hopers! O and you Brendon 24 … Yes! and Yes!

]]> By: Eric http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23930 Eric Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:23:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23930 Dave, do you really know that there are more than 100 sextillion snow flakes in one Siberian winter, that number is so large its hard to assume such a thing. What if it´s wrong, when comparing such numbers you probably wrong by perhaps a billion to one ore more regarding witch one is the largest number. The number of stars is not the same as places that can sustain life, there are perhaps 10 planets for every star and every planet may have a lot of moons, Jupiter and Saturn have more than 60 each and then suddenly your centuries don´t matter any more, then there are all those dwarf planets that we keep finding al the time, outside of the solar system and in astroid belts, these numbers may make 100 sextillions next to nothing, and this planet would have to have some miles of snow all of a sudden to keep up. Sone we will have new telescopes and perhaps our universe is 100 times larger in 10 years , since mankind started looking it has only gotten bigger and bigger for every time a new advancement in this area has been made. This planet have had o lot of different climates trough out history and they have al been full of life, different planets probably consists of the same materials and life adapts and forms on earth and this probably has nothing to do with our planet alone, look at this planet, there are no square meter on earth that doesn´t have life on if and it thrives everywhere. Water consists of the most common element and has to be everywhere, the same goes fore carbon and the other things we are made of. The normal thing to assume is the opposite to yours, this planet is most ordinary and humans are not that important. Your comment suggest you are a religious person (do not want life in universe and want it dead and boring for your own ego), or very narrow minded. Dave, do you really know that there are more than 100 sextillion snow flakes in one Siberian winter, that number is so large its hard to assume such a thing. What if it´s wrong, when comparing such numbers you probably wrong by perhaps a billion to one ore more regarding witch one is the largest number. The number of stars is not the same as places that can sustain life, there are perhaps 10 planets for every star and every planet may have a lot of moons, Jupiter and Saturn have more than 60 each and then suddenly your centuries don´t matter any more, then there are all those dwarf planets that we keep finding al the time, outside of the solar system and in astroid belts, these numbers may make 100 sextillions next to nothing, and this planet would have to have some miles of snow all of a sudden to keep up. Sone we will have new telescopes and perhaps our universe is 100 times larger in 10 years , since mankind started looking it has only gotten bigger and bigger for every time a new advancement in this area has been made.

This planet have had o lot of different climates trough out history and they have al been full of life, different planets probably consists of the same materials and life adapts and forms on earth and this probably has nothing to do with our planet alone, look at this planet, there are no square meter on earth that doesn´t have life on if and it thrives everywhere. Water consists of the most common element and has to be everywhere, the same goes fore carbon and the other things we are made of.

The normal thing to assume is the opposite to yours, this planet is most ordinary and humans are not that important.

Your comment suggest you are a religious person (do not want life in universe and want it dead and boring for your own ego), or very narrow minded.

]]> By: Dave W http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23929 Dave W Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:51:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23929 I'm curious. So many people believe there is life on other planets, due to merely the huge numbers of stars in the universe. More than 100 sextillion snow flakes fall in one Siberian winter alone, multiplied by the rest of Earth's snow fall, multiplied by a few centuries of snow fall, and you get a number of snowflakes so large that 100-300 sextillion becomes simply a fart in a hurricane. Since no snowflakes are exactly alike, what makes anyone think any 2 planets are alike? Besides, there is no proof that intelligent life even exists on Earth. I’m curious. So many people believe there is life on other planets, due to merely the huge numbers of stars in the universe. More than 100 sextillion snow flakes fall in one Siberian winter alone, multiplied by the rest of Earth’s snow fall, multiplied by a few centuries of snow fall, and you get a number of snowflakes so large that 100-300 sextillion becomes simply a fart in a hurricane. Since no snowflakes are exactly alike, what makes anyone think any 2 planets are alike? Besides, there is no proof that intelligent life even exists on Earth.

]]> By: stu http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23928 stu Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:33:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23928 Sorry to sound dumb. But is it possible that anything that we are seeing beyond our own recent lifetime in light years is already deceased. Meaning that whatever we are seeing now or have been observing in our relitively short period of studying astronomy may not actually be there now? Sorry to sound dumb. But is it possible that anything that we are seeing beyond our own recent lifetime in light years is already deceased. Meaning that whatever we are seeing now or have been observing in our relitively short period of studying astronomy may not actually be there now?

]]> By: Roj http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23927 Roj Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:48:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23927 The dark matter is in your head! The dark matter is in your head!

]]> By: Bob Carlson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/12/01/the-estimated-number-of-stars-in-the-universe-just-tripled/#comment-23926 Bob Carlson Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:54:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=23340#comment-23926 right on, ghoppe! i also don't hold with dark matter/energy or even stringy theory...i like the holographic universe principle. right on, ghoppe! i also don’t hold with dark matter/energy or even stringy theory…i like the holographic universe principle.

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