• pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    Going by the top Duck duck go results for “how many stars in our galaxy” and “how many trees in the world”:
    “According to Jos de Bruijne, a scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), the current estimate is between 100 to 400 billion stars.”
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    “There are an estimated 3.04 trillion trees in the world.”

    • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      That’s why it’s so crazy that that person was shat on so hard.

      Not finding the actual Tweet yet (hard to navigate without an account), but here’s a video covering it:

      https://youtu.be/Vael2yGvG_k

      Also sorry for the billion edits. My brain is giving up on me tonight.

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, if you think of it, stars are relatively rare in a galaxy when compared to living beings which are born to procreate. But once you go out to universe, it becomes true.