>>you're not only insignificant, you are now triply insignificant...

>>If you were only a spec of dust in the universe, now, all the other specs of dust just had two babies and you're all alone.

>>Suicidals and depressives need read no further...

>>;)

Discovery Triples Number of Stars in Universe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 134158.htm

ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2010) — Astronomers have discovered that small, dim stars known as red dwarfs are much more prolific than previously thought -- so much so that the total number of stars in the universe is likely three times bigger than realized.

Because red dwarfs are relatively small and dim compared to stars like our Sun, astronomers hadn't been able to detect them in galaxies other than our own Milky Way and its nearest neighbors before now. As such, they did not know how much of the total stellar population of the universe is made up of red dwarfs.

Now astronomers have used powerful instruments on the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to detect the faint signature of red dwarfs in eight massive, relatively nearby galaxies called elliptical galaxies, which are located between about 50 million and 300 million light years away. They discovered that the red dwarfs, which are only between 10 and 20 percent as massive as the Sun, were much more bountiful than expected.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 134158.htm

Two thoughts come to mind,

As I am not that religious, and not a Christian I do remember a line in the Bible that says there are more stars in the sky then grains of sand on the beach.

That just might be the only statement in the bible that is true. Sometimes you just get lucky.

The other is politics, with everybody thinking how important they are and there side of what ever argument there on, it kind of puts things in prospective.

If it was not so cold and cloudy outside I would go out and look at the stars.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:27 pm Two thoughts come to mind,

As I am not that religious, and not a Christian I do remember a line in the Bible that says there are more stars in the sky then grains of sand on the beach.

That just might be the only statement in the bible that is true. Sometimes you just get lucky.

The other is politics, with everybody thinking how important they are and there side of what ever argument there on, it kind of puts things in prospective.

If it was not so cold and cloudy outside I would go out and look at the stars.

River

F-in cold out. Can't seem to stay warm. Damn, Canadian whisky is converting T to E, and I am suffering the chills.

Oh, sure... Blame Canada

We got dumped with more snow this November than the first half of the winter before the Big Flood a few years back.

Gonna be an interesting spring around here, that's for sure.

kristoff wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:31 pm F-in cold out. Can't seem to stay warm. Damn, Canadian whisky is converting T to E, and I am suffering the chills.

Kristoff - try gin. It's recommended by IEunuch and myself.

As far as keeping warm, find a cute heavenly body and curl up around him or her.

The weather man said last night that it should hit -10F or -23C for those of you who use that other system. Consider that 6 weeks ago it was 80F its come on quick this year. This is the weather we usually get in late January, Kristoff is right on, its f,,,,en cold out side, but life does have its funner sides, there is also 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground, my little dog is only about 10 inches at the shoulder, so when she needs to go out, well............ when she comes in she is frozen and gets wrapped in a towel to dry off and warm up.

Rupert does not go out when its this cold,

OH and a special note to Moi, it snowed the other night, and when I got up and looked outside, all the trees had snow on them right out to the tips of the branches, the sun was bright, a beautiful white blanked of snow on the ground. You just don't get that in So Cal. There were also some squirrels and blue jays fighting over the seed from the feeders.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:43 am The weather man said last night that it should hit -10F or -23C

Exactly why we pay the higher cost of living ... better weather!

But seriously, in response to the original posting, it's arrogant to think we (humans) are the end all and be all of the cosmos. When it comes down to it, we are merely a spec in relation to the bigger picture. I don't think it's fair to think that depressives would be driven over the edge by this thought. As one myself, it actually helps to think that I'm not the bottom of the heap. But that everyone else is there with me. Just my two cents.

lots o luv guys!