On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/2009 09:10 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 > >>> > >>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > >>>> On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>>> [snip] > >>>> > >>>>> We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so > >>>>> much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet > >>>>> spins. How bazaar! > >>>> > >>>> How can you make such a comment when you have *no clue* as to > >>>> what any other entity does? > >>> > >>> RE: "probably" > >> > >> Wasn't it Carl Sagen who caculated that there "probably" are other > >> intellegent life forms in the universe, out of all those billions > >> and billions of possibilities? > > > > Sagan (correct spelling) was quite clear in articles and at least > > once when I heard him speak that he did not use the term "billions > > and billions." The only time he used that term was when saying, > > "I've never said, 'Billions and Billions,'" or when saying it to > > satisfy someone who just had to hear him say it. He liked to point > > out that it was an incredibly vague term that he would not use. > > Hmph. > > I *remember* him saying "billions and billions" back on /Cosmos/.
Yeah, well, I've seen what you remember about political figures. I hear ginkgo biloba is good for that. > Going to IMDB, I see that what he really said was the quite similar > "billions upon billions". > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081846/quotes Says "billions UPON billions of stars." Since when did you start counting web sources like IMDB or Wikipedia as authoritative? Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
