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    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 23 15:39:21 2022
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    xkcd: Galaxies
    https://xkcd.com/2596/

    That is a lot of galaxies.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2596:_Galaxies

    Lynn

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  • From Thomas Koenig@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Thu Mar 24 08:33:23 2022
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    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> schrieb:
    xkcd: Galaxies
    https://xkcd.com/2596/

    That is a lot of galaxies.

    Very much so. The recent Webb Telescope picture was also impressive
    that way (although they did not give the angle they were looking
    at).

    Or, to quote Douglas Adams: "Space is big. You just won't believe
    how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may
    think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's
    just peanuts to space."

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Mar 24 12:15:53 2022
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    In article <t1hacj$itf$[email protected]>,
    Thomas Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> schrieb:
    xkcd: Galaxies
    https://xkcd.com/2596/

    That is a lot of galaxies.

    Very much so. The recent Webb Telescope picture was also impressive
    that way (although they did not give the angle they were looking
    at).

    Or, to quote Douglas Adams: "Space is big. You just won't believe
    how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may
    think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's
    just peanuts to space."

    Or Aldiss: "Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand"
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