If you haven’t seen the Nov. 2 Medical Examiner about numbers, grab a copy at one of our dozens of CSRA newsstands before they’re all gone, or read it online (scroll down to see it below). And for more visuals that help put millions, billions and trillions into some kind of perspective an ordinary human being can grasp, scroll to the bottom of this page and click “Older posts.” Prepare to be astounded.
Here’s one more parting shot on numbers that puts the Earth, our solar system, and us little humans in our place: the entire Milky Way galaxy is barely a speck of dust in the universe. There’s a little Star Trek mumbo-jumbo in the captions, but the message is clear: the universe is kinda big.
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