Stargazer was *right!*

[sts60]

In the spirit of scientific fairness we proclaim so often on this board, I have to admit that stargazer was apparently correct in his assessment of the number of stars one should see from space in general and the Moon in particular.

After estimates of "trillions", "4.3 Quintzillions - 1", "zillions", "trillions" again, and the penultimate "4.3 Quintzillions", he finally settled on "bazillions" in post 183 here
But above you there are bazillions of light sources shining down on you

and post 1013 here
Basically the lie, that when you look away from the sun (and while near earth, the earth) you would not see bazillions of stars

Lo and behold, a NASA whistleblower apparently confirms stargazer's numbers here:

"Of the bazillion stars that we have in our night sky, the sun is the only one that counts," said NASA scientist Madhulika Guhathakurta.

(edit: fixed URL - thanks postbaguk)

[HeadLikeARock (was postbaguk)]

sts60 said:

In the spirit of scientific fairness we proclaim so often on this board, I have to admit that stargazer was apparently correct in his assessment of the number of stars one should see from space in general and the Moon in particular.

After estimates of "trillions", "4.3 Quintzillions - 1", "zillions", "trillions" again, and the penultimate "4.3 Quintzillions", he finally settled on "bazillions" in post 183 here
But above you there are bazillions of light sources shining down on you

and post 1013 here
Basically the lie, that when you look away from the sun (and while near earth, the earth) you would not see bazillions of stars

Lo and behold, a NASA whistleblower apparently confirms stargazer's numbers [url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/10/25/solar.satellites.ap/index.html
]here

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"Of the bazillion stars that we have in our night sky, the sun is the only one that counts," said NASA scientist Madhulika Guhathakurta.[/quote]

Wow - so it was all a lie after all....

PS your link is wrong - this one should work.

[Kiwi]

Aha, but in the interest of scientific fairness, I must point out that that whistleblower did not say that you should be able to see every one of those bazillion stars when the only one that counts is shining in your eyes or on you or on the land around you.

So I would estimate that the value of Stargazer's assessment to the scientific community is, on the now-famous Bogosity Scale, about one picopercy.


Edited to add: Oops, the BB insists on putting a space that I can't remove in picopercy, but you get the idea.