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	<title>Comments on: 3 x 106</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: qlnegj coqas</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-97592</link>
		<dc:creator>qlnegj coqas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: kghfcdaiu swpuyin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-97589</link>
		<dc:creator>kghfcdaiu swpuyin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: qasloj ijqyvhd</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-97586</link>
		<dc:creator>qasloj ijqyvhd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Branco</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38650</link>
		<dc:creator>Branco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bring back Stargate SG-1 please, my Lord.</description>
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		<title>By: Lyle Gaulding</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38649</link>
		<dc:creator>Lyle Gaulding</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t imagine you would do a worse job than the bunch running the world now</description>
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		<title>By: aiabx</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38648</link>
		<dc:creator>aiabx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When you&#039;re the World Dominator, can we get jobs as evil minions? And can you outlaw people who post on blogs to say they are never visiting this site again? If you don&#039;t, I will never visit this site again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you&#8217;re the World Dominator, can we get jobs as evil minions? And can you outlaw people who post on blogs to say they are never visiting this site again? If you don&#8217;t, I will never visit this site again.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter B</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38647</link>
		<dc:creator>Peter B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Carl

Check your maths. I think there are fewer than 600 billion people on the Earth!</description>
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<p>Check your maths. I think there are fewer than 600 billion people on the Earth!</p>
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		<title>By: Carl Buell</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38646</link>
		<dc:creator>Carl Buell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>World Domination?  As I calculate it, even if the 3 million views were all from different people, you still have only reached .00046% of the world&#039;s population.  But I love a person with big dreams.  Go for it Phil!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>World Domination?  As I calculate it, even if the 3 million views were all from different people, you still have only reached .00046% of the world&#8217;s population.  But I love a person with big dreams.  Go for it Phil!</p>
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		<title>By: The Bad Astronomer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38645</link>
		<dc:creator>The Bad Astronomer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The blog gets more visitors than is registered here. There are feeds from many places, for example, and a few thousand people have signed up via email as well. If they all came here for every post, I&#039;d see a million visits about every two months or so.

And that&#039;s just the blog; the rest of the site is hit a lot as well. I estimate I get about 10 million visits per year, but that&#039;s a very rough estimate. The number of unique visitors is much smaller, of course.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The blog gets more visitors than is registered here. There are feeds from many places, for example, and a few thousand people have signed up via email as well. If they all came here for every post, I&#8217;d see a million visits about every two months or so.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s just the blog; the rest of the site is hit a lot as well. I estimate I get about 10 million visits per year, but that&#8217;s a very rough estimate. The number of unique visitors is much smaller, of course.</p>
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		<title>By: Raira</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38644</link>
		<dc:creator>Raira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does that include all the people reading your feeds? BA feeds to my Livejournal, so you might be getting more visitors than you think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does that include all the people reading your feeds? BA feeds to my Livejournal, so you might be getting more visitors than you think.</p>
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		<title>By: Crux Australis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38643</link>
		<dc:creator>Crux Australis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, I just found out that my country has about the same area as your state (New Zealand cf: Colorado). Surely that qualifies me as one of your Global Ministers?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I just found out that my country has about the same area as your state (New Zealand cf: Colorado). Surely that qualifies me as one of your Global Ministers?</p>
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		<title>By: DTdNav</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38642</link>
		<dc:creator>DTdNav</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey that was fun!  I logged off at 3,004,212, and logged back in at 3,004,213!  Who knew sitemeters could be so entertaining?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey that was fun!  I logged off at 3,004,212, and logged back in at 3,004,213!  Who knew sitemeters could be so entertaining?</p>
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		<title>By: DTdNav</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38641</link>
		<dc:creator>DTdNav</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t buy it.  No evil Laugh.  Everyone knows that world domination requires an evil laugh.</description>
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		<title>By: Trebuchet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38640</link>
		<dc:creator>Trebuchet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm, meter is now showing.  Only difference is earlier I was on a very slow dial-up connection and at this moment am taking advantage of a rare opportunity to use broadband.

Anyhow, keep up the good work Phil!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm, meter is now showing.  Only difference is earlier I was on a very slow dial-up connection and at this moment am taking advantage of a rare opportunity to use broadband.</p>
<p>Anyhow, keep up the good work Phil!</p>
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		<title>By: Gary Ansorge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38639</link>
		<dc:creator>Gary Ansorge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmmm, so you&#039;ve been visited by one percent of the US population? Sounds about right. Must be the top one percent,,,
Now all you need is to convince the remaining 99 percent to start THINKING. Then you can really rule, Dude.

Number 1 Proclamation. All religious texts should come with a disclaimer:

Caution, this book is fiction. Any resemblance to gods living or dead is strictly coincidental. The ideas contained herein do not even qualify for the term Theory.
Harry Potter has more validity,,,

Gary 7</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmmm, so you&#8217;ve been visited by one percent of the US population? Sounds about right. Must be the top one percent,,,<br />
Now all you need is to convince the remaining 99 percent to start THINKING. Then you can really rule, Dude.</p>
<p>Number 1 Proclamation. All religious texts should come with a disclaimer:</p>
<p>Caution, this book is fiction. Any resemblance to gods living or dead is strictly coincidental. The ideas contained herein do not even qualify for the term Theory.<br />
Harry Potter has more validity,,,</p>
<p>Gary 7</p>
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		<title>By: Oran_Taran</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38638</link>
		<dc:creator>Oran_Taran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sure you had it a while back BA.

Am I the only one who puts tracking sites like that on the hosts file? I have most of them there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure you had it a while back BA.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who puts tracking sites like that on the hosts file? I have most of them there.</p>
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		<title>By: shoeshine boy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38637</link>
		<dc:creator>shoeshine boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Don&#039;t get cocky, kid.&quot; ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t get cocky, kid.&#8221; <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: JanieBelle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38636</link>
		<dc:creator>JanieBelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and P.S. for clarification.

While SiteMeter displays the number of visits, it does track page views as well, but you have to click the SiteMeter image to find the number of page views.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and P.S. for clarification.</p>
<p>While SiteMeter displays the number of visits, it does track page views as well, but you have to click the SiteMeter image to find the number of page views.</p>
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		<title>By: JanieBelle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38635</link>
		<dc:creator>JanieBelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True enough, ABR.

Site meter tracks visits (as opposed to just page views).  A visit goes kinda like this...

You visit BA.  That&#039;s a one.  You surf five or six pages, it&#039;s still one visit.  You leave for five minutes and return and surf 4 or 5 pages.  Still one visit.  You leave for twenty minutes or more.  You return and surf some more pages.  That&#039;s two visits.

Hope that helps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True enough, ABR.</p>
<p>Site meter tracks visits (as opposed to just page views).  A visit goes kinda like this&#8230;</p>
<p>You visit BA.  That&#8217;s a one.  You surf five or six pages, it&#8217;s still one visit.  You leave for five minutes and return and surf 4 or 5 pages.  Still one visit.  You leave for twenty minutes or more.  You return and surf some more pages.  That&#8217;s two visits.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
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		<title>By: JanieBelle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38634</link>
		<dc:creator>JanieBelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Trebuchet,

I&#039;m running FF, and I can see it fine.  Try turning on remote images in your options (they&#039;re off by default).

Interestingly enough though, it&#039;s recently disappeared from my own blog, and I can&#039;t figure out why.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trebuchet,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m running FF, and I can see it fine.  Try turning on remote images in your options (they&#8217;re off by default).</p>
<p>Interestingly enough though, it&#8217;s recently disappeared from my own blog, and I can&#8217;t figure out why.</p>
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		<title>By: ABR</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38633</link>
		<dc:creator>ABR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>3,000,000 views...Wow! Is anyone else pondering what I am pondering -- how many people does that number actually represent? Judging on the number of serial commenters, I suspect that I&#039;m not the only person who practices: read, surf away, return.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>3,000,000 views&#8230;Wow! Is anyone else pondering what I am pondering &#8212; how many people does that number actually represent? Judging on the number of serial commenters, I suspect that I&#8217;m not the only person who practices: read, surf away, return.</p>
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		<title>By: Trebuchet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38632</link>
		<dc:creator>Trebuchet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm, I&#039;m not seeing the site meter.  Perhaps it uses ActiveX or something and won&#039;t work under Firefox.  Anyhow congratulations.  Soon you&#039;ll be at MegaPi!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm, I&#8217;m not seeing the site meter.  Perhaps it uses ActiveX or something and won&#8217;t work under Firefox.  Anyhow congratulations.  Soon you&#8217;ll be at MegaPi!</p>
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		<title>By: JanieBelle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38631</link>
		<dc:creator>JanieBelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooooo!  Let me get in on the request line here for a sec...

Could you please remove the braille from the drive-thru ATM machines?  That really scares me.

Thanks in advance and Kisses,

JanieBelle</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooooo!  Let me get in on the request line here for a sec&#8230;</p>
<p>Could you please remove the braille from the drive-thru ATM machines?  That really scares me.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance and Kisses,</p>
<p>JanieBelle</p>
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		<title>By: Nance Confer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38630</link>
		<dc:creator>Nance Confer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My DH has already declared that he will eventually be The Benevolent Despot. We are happy he has decided to be benevolent, so we let him continue with his plans.

But even he has not been able to find the solution to one problem I hope you will tackle.

Could you please figure out a way to bar people who are not actually passing from riding in the passing lane?

Thanks! :)

Nance</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My DH has already declared that he will eventually be The Benevolent Despot. We are happy he has decided to be benevolent, so we let him continue with his plans.</p>
<p>But even he has not been able to find the solution to one problem I hope you will tackle.</p>
<p>Could you please figure out a way to bar people who are not actually passing from riding in the passing lane?</p>
<p>Thanks! <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Nance</p>
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		<title>By: Ggremlin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/16/3-x-106/comment-page-1/#comment-38629</link>
		<dc:creator>Ggremlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do what all Good? Evil OverLords do:  Steal It!, Dogbert is a good source.</description>
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