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October 03, 2015, 06:13:22 AM
Kat posted something interesting in another thread about stars -

QuoteI just found a very interesting correlation to the original post about how many people have ever lived on earth, which a general estimate came in at somewhere around 100 billion. Well to give you a general idea of how much that actually is look at this below.

How many stars are there in our Galaxy (Milky Way)?

People have studied the mass distribution of stars in the galaxy. Further, one also knows the amount of light put out by each type of star. So, by measuring the total amount of light in the galaxy (called luminosity), and knowing the mass, one can estimate the number of stars that are there in the galaxy. So, even though we cannot actually count the number of stars in the galaxy, we can estimate the number of stars in the galaxy as roughly 100 billion (100,000,000,000). It turns out that there are many more stars with mass less than the mass of the Sun than with mass more than the mass of the Sun. So, it all works out right.
Astronomy Department at Cornell University (This page updated June 27, 2015)
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/78-the-universe/stars-and-star-clusters/general-questions/343-how-many-stars-are-there-in-our-galaxy-milky-way-intermediate

How is that for a comparison?!! At this point any way there are about the same number of stars in the Milky Way as there have been people born on this earth... WOW! Coincidence? I don't think so.

What is more interesting is that we are literally stardust.

See the star in you :) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/star-in-you.html

We live because stars died - sounds familar?

Our bodies are star dust, the ashes of long-dead stars.

I wonder if in Genesis 2:7, it actually means star dust.

Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust [star dust??] of the ground

We are in the universe and the universe is in us. Sounds familiar again?  :)

Dave in Tenn

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October 04, 2015, 07:05:47 PM
Yes, it does.  No matter where I look, the same 'principles' are seen over and over again, large and small.
Heb 10:32  But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle.

cheekie3

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October 05, 2015, 02:39:34 AM
zvezda -

That is amazing.

George.

rick

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October 07, 2015, 07:47:48 PM
Even more amazing is there is a creator, creation by design.  ;)
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