Katz: You think there's anyone else on Earth lookin up at the sky and seein as many stars as we are?
I gotta be lookin at a million of em.
Bill: The naked eye can see 2,000
Katz: Well then I really got great eyes cause I'm lookin at a million.
Bill: Alpha Centauri is the closest. That's 4 1/2 light years away. Each light year is 6 trillion miles.
So that's 26 trillion miles.
Katz: That's the closest?
Bill: Yep. And there's 100 million stars in our galaxy; more galaxies in the universe than grains of
sand on Earth.
Katz: That is big.
Bill: Yeah. And we are small.
--A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
"You alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens; the heavens of heavens with all their host; the earth and all that is on it; the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them and the heavenly host bows down before You.--Nehemiah 9:6
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