I've been reading a lot on astronomy recently. Especially after reading up on the Ultra Deep Field Image. If you guys don't know what it is I would suggest looking it up. Here are some links to some overviews from Giz.
Essentially areas that we thought were devoid of anything actually have hundreds of thousands of galaxies. Just to put that in perspective, there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy. You can extrapolate as to how many planets that would be. With this new data they are estimating that there are some where around 100 billion galaxies in the universe. I don't even know what 100 billion x 100 billion equals. Kind of humbling, no?
Anyhoo, the reason I am posting this is because I talk Lisa's ear off about this stuff. To add to the torture I have been making her listen to the Carl Sagan autotuned video on youtube a lot. She asked me why I hadn't posted it on TripleChimp, I thought I had. So this is for her. There is a lot more info, but I'll let you watch the video that I am placing after the autotune for it. I apologize if you have already seen this.
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Seriously, Adrian and I can't get enough of 'Symphony of Science.' First of all - it's given me a new appreciation for Auto-tuning ;) Secondly - what those AWEsome scientist dudes are saying truly makes you realize what's important in life.
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