2008-10-10

700 billion = the number of stars in seven galaxies

This popped up on the quote of the day (actually, it’s three-quote-of-the-day) section on my customized iGoogle home page:



"There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."

- Richard Feynman


Seems appropriate considering events lately, eh? Congress just blew more money than there are stars in seven Milky Way Galaxies. No wonder the stock market is tanking.

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