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There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.
-Carl Sagan
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There Are In Fact 100 Billion Galaxies,

Carl Sagan
There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.
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You know; when i look at the night sky and i see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, i sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. well i think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms
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I never said it. honest. oh, i said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. it's hard to talk about the cosmos without using big numbers. i said "billion" many times on the cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. but i never said "billions and billions." for one thing, it's too imprecise. how many billions are "billions and billions"? a few billion? twenty billion? a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. when we reconfigured and updated the series, i checked-and sure enough, i never said it.
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I will say that the god concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of god. i don't believe in any of earth's monotheistic religions, but i do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of god, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.
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So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.
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One in 200 stars has habitable earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. so when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
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In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. they will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......we live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.
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