Comments on Profile Post by Ryuu

There are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are stars in the galaxy, but there are more grains of sand on a beach than atoms in a grain of sand.

You Will see in 2050 There would be more stars believe me...

That's so trippy

not possible.
the universe is presumably infinite, so we could continue on and on through soace for the rest of our lives and we'd never see the end of the universe. That means there are infinite stars in the galaxy, and there's not infinite trees on earth.

thats it for nerd science with terezi

note that I said galaxy, not universe lmfao...

The're more tiny poop in the poop then the tiny poop in the tiny poop

That's nonsense. There can't be that many trees left on earth.

You're no fun :( this info is based on September 2015 studies from multiple sources, approximating the world's trees to ~3 trillion. Around a year has passed, and there's definitely much less now due to shitty human shenanigans and whatnot, but there is still undoubtedly at least 400 billion (the approximate number of stars in our galaxy) trees o/

:o

I don't believe a word of it.

Ultimately, I don't really care whether or not you believe it... though I'm not sure why you don't. If you have a way to disprove the multiple studies regarding both these estimates (both of which you can access through literally one google search lol), then I stand corrected? xD

If you can debunk this though, please do tell :o I'm genuinely interested

I support Winter/Ryuu on this one, simply cuz he's right. (probably)
First off, Terezi, the universe may or may not be infinite, but under most accepted models, the fact that the universe could possibly be infinite does NOT mean there's an infinite amount of matter.

Following the Big Bang model, matter will not suddenly spread to all corners of the universe even if it were infinite. There's a FINITE amount of matter and energy in the universe.

Enough about astrophysics, on to estimates on star count in our galaxy. Basically they do an estimate based on how much matter in the galaxy they expect to be made up of stars and the average star mass.
According to NASA, most reasonable estimates put stars in the Milky Way at 100-400 billion stars.

Whoa so many smart Shaka brahs :O

As for the tree count, how they do it is actually pretty cool. Basically they use a combo of satellite pictures, infrared imagery (possibly, the study may or may not have used infrared specifically) and hard core math to give a pretty darn good estimate of the number of trees.

Personally I'm of the opinion they estimated on the high side with 3 trillion, maybe something more like 1 trillion would have been appropriate.

Ok, god darn it. I'm done.
Please let me know if I made any errors, I believe my information should be pretty correct up to the specifics on tree counting.
Sorry for spamming your feed @Winter
:P

Well damn son

There are more stars in the whole universe then grains of sand on every beach on earth.