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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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The universe is so incredibly interesting. To understand it is THE quest. The holy grail.
But like the holy grail, we'll probably never hold it in our hands...
A few days ago I read that our solar system has 139 moons. Pretty cool, eh? The fact that we've only landed on one extra-terrestrial body outside our planet is proof enough to me that we've barely begun to scratch at the first atoms on the surface layer of a great behemoth expanse. Consider that there're 200+ sextillion stars in the observable universe and numerous moons and planets and asteroids and comets for every star. And for each galaxy there're probably billions of rogue planets that're either drifting amongst them or in their wake. And who knows what's out beyond the observable universe, but it's too bad that there's a terminator point that prohibits us EVER seeing or reaching any point beyond it. There're areas of the universe we'll
never see.
Never see, that's, assuming we're right about our central theories.
(btw, there're trillions of cells in the human body and billions of humans. if stars were the cells inside humans then the total number of stars is similar to the actual number of stars we calculate there to be.)