On Mon, 22 May 2006 16:58:38 +1200, Sir Gilligan Horry
<GM@ga7rm5er.com> wrote:

..... It doesn't seem like many when you know there are
7,000,000,000 People on Planet Earth.

   Think about how many BUGS there are. 400,000,000,000
   per square mile ? 

   When you consider bugs, there IS no other form of life
   on earth. We all shrink to statistical insignificance. 

   But then there's the bacteria ... 400,000,000,000 per
   cubic centimeter sometimes ..... 

   Anyhow, 400,000,000,000 suns seems adequate, for now.
   Soon the Andromeda galaxy will come whizzing through
   ours and we'll have about 1,000,000,000,000 suns to
   play with for awhile. The neat part is that no two
   of them may EVER hit each other - galaxies are mostly
   'empty' space. I've seen a great simulation of the
   galactic 'splat' before however ... you can kiss
   those nice constellations goodbye. Both galaxies
   will be pretty 'irregular' for a LONG time after.

   http://www.space.com/images/merging_galaxies_020507_02.jpg

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/vo/ava/movies/G0601andmilwy.mpeg