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Yonivore
08-15-2009, 08:19 PM
Some commenter (http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/at-sunset-tavern.html#c33015686561111104)on Ann Althouse's blog:


The science narrator genre, made popular in the late 60s.


"There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Simply saying that number doesn't mean much to us because it doesn't provide any context. Our brains have no way to accurately put that in any meaningful perspective."

The quote is from this

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RH goes on:


100 billion is a twentieth of the 2009 Obama deficit.

It's doesn't seem so big now, astronomers.

Needed, a government narrator genre replacing the universe with the deficit.
The Hubble telescope looks at pork.

DMX7
08-15-2009, 08:21 PM
A lot of waste to make what point again?

Sounds like the Iraq war all over again.