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Old 18-08-2010, 02:52 PM
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I am finding this discussion extremely enjoyable and I am learning stuff as well it is good to see such a wide and varied range of idea's to consider and keep our brains growing instead of atrophying
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Old 18-08-2010, 03:06 PM
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Actually, no. Even if there were only 1/1000000 places that supported life, the fact that there are an infinity of them still makes that number an infinity. The infinite subset of an infinite number is still an infinite number. They're practically the same size, no matter how much you care to divide them
Yes that is so. What a conundrum! If we can define infinity We should be able to prove black is white, the moon is made of green cheese, etc.

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Old 18-08-2010, 11:44 PM
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...the moon is made of green cheese...

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I always thought that it was??!!
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