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| Are There More Stars Than Bacteria? by sirjohnson(op): 6:53pm On Mar 26, 2015 |
Dont know if I am posting in the right section, if not, MODS please do the needful. I have read a countless times that stars are very many in the universe. Studies say our own galaxy, which is the milky way has about 300 billion stars and there are over 200 billion galaxies in the known universe. . Now I also read that bacteria are the most plentiful living things in the cosmos-they are in the air, in the oceans, on trees, inside the ground and a bacterium can produce 4 bacteria in just 10 seconds. When your food is getting sour and spoilt, 3 thousand bacteria can multiply into 3 million in just 1 hour or less. They also said a bacterium is so small that 10 thousand bacteria can fill a dot made by a pencil. Now my question is, are there more stars than there are bacteria in the known cosmos? https://www.genomicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bacteria1.jpg https://bcfas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/5-12-stars.jpg |
| Re: Are There More Stars Than Bacteria? by Tolexander: 7:58pm On Mar 26, 2015 |
What a very good question! Bacteria is ubiquitous on the planet earth and I've not seen or read its presence outside the earth(not saying it doesn't exist outside this planet). To be candid, the numbers of both bacteria and stars are just estimates and not precise. |
| Re: Are There More Stars Than Bacteria? by richol(m): 8:32pm On Mar 26, 2015 |
i go for the bacteria, they reproduce millions per minute. |
| Re: Are There More Stars Than Bacteria? by sirjohnson(op): 5:43pm On May 23, 2016 |
richol:But they also die quickly. A star can live up to 50 million years |
| Re: Are There More Stars Than Bacteria? by saasala(m): 6:47pm On May 23, 2016 |
lalasticlala, mynd44 and other mods will never move this kind of topic to frontpage. Its been lying there for more than a year, yet we have thousands of snake threads littering the frontpage day in, day out. SMH |
| Re: Are There More Stars Than Bacteria? by richol(m): 4:13pm On May 25, 2016 |
sirjohnson:before one dies it would have reproduced even billions...well..who knows cos i dont even know where space ends |
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