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| Registered Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Dismal Nitch, AZ 
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				How Insignificant Are We?
			 
				__________________ Don . "Fully integrated people, in their transparency, tend to not be subject to mechanisms of defense, disguise, deceit, and fraudulence." - - Don R. 1994, an excerpt from My Ass From a Hole in the Ground - A Comparative View | ||
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			Thanks for that, Don. I agree...perspective is always an important aspect for us to remember. Good stuff! I took a couple Astronomy course in college so learned all of this but still enjoy the entire study of the universe above and around us.....never ceases to fascinate me! 
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| Registered ConfUser Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Waterlogged 
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			We're an absolutely incredible and nearly impossible fluke.  None of this should be by any reasonable measure. Yet, we are here.
		 
				__________________ Mike “I wouldn’t want to live under the conditions a person could get used to”. -My paternal grandmother having immigrated to America shortly before WWll. | ||
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| Fleabit peanut monkey | Quote: 
 The light year is impossible to genuinely fathom for the normal person. The astronomer can probably grasp because of being immersed in it. One of the 25 slides says "millions" of stars in galaxies. It's billions. 
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