Re: [OT] Friday the 13th
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.johnson@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
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