Notice it’s an even number!
There are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in the universe. Or, to put it another way, 200 sextillion.
That’s 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!
The number is so big, it’s hard to imagine. But try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
Publish that, I would have made it far harder to understand. say, 207,917,843,664,295,396,849,456!
That’s quite a lot !Let’s hope they don’t all fall down from the sky every time you walk by… 
Its best to ignore 199,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 of them and just hope one keeps on pumping out the heat and light 
Nothing to worry about
You actually can reduce that number to a few tens of thousand stars that are within 125 light years that stand any chance of knowing we are here.
That’s assuming that radio transmissions started in about 1900 (which is roughly right)
That’s 10,000 which is a much smaller number with a lot less noughts.
No one has mentioned 3.I /Atlas comet - Its really interesting to follow . Nassa has actually shut down their page and not updated any thing for a week or so , its said they dont know what it is ! From what has been gathered it is made of Nickel due to the gasses that are coming from it. Its the size of Manhatton apparently . It has been dumping trillions of gallons of water on route . Its hidden behind the sun and unable to be seen for some time .
I would be interested to hear what other people have heard . Will Nassa give us more updates ? Is it an intelligent craft ? 
Who knows , maybe other beings are watching us even closer .
Wonder if their interstellar craft looks like junk?
Maybe NASA can mine 3.1, odds of a collision?
Fascinating stuff, I bet Surfermom knows more?
Most likely street musicians are more interesting? … 
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All right, you’re to absorb and store in on our Ai memory banks, all that is online every moment from now!
It works by using an energy source of any kind — but renewables would be the cleanest option — to run graphite heaters.
What energy source? No such thing as a free meal Zac… 
I’m thinking ‘Iceland’ Zac…
Here in the UK we could pay Iceland to build power stations based on geothermal energy, which currently supplies all of Iceland’s electricity (apart from a negligible amount from a few wind turbines)
Due to the never ending chemical reaction in the earth that creates an endless supply of heat for steam turbines.
Now that’s what I call ‘Sustainable’ with few moving parts.
A cable/cables could be laid to the UK mainland, that I’m sure would be helluva lot cheaper than solar panels or wind turbines…
Because Iceland don’t have much of an economy, it would be a ‘win win’ situation.
Almost as good as discovering oil!
America even have their own geothermal outlets ‘Yellowstone’ to capitalise on.
I can’t imagine why nobody has thought of this before… 
No doubt Lincs will come up with the answer…
My understanding is that the comet has been so cosmically blasted and so full of radiation through its travels, that scientists won’t be able to get any real data on its composition, so research grant money will be put elswhere. Movement is still being tracked because it’s still so relatively close:
The most successful project, despite substations being destroyed in relatively recent eruptions, are on the Big Island of Hawai’i. They have been able to supply around 10-11% of the utility supply for the island, which is notorious for having some of the most expensive energy costs in the U.S. I heard hey sold recently and the new company is expanding efforts, but there is the usual slowdown due to disputes between the state government and the infrastructure company.
I know of several deep drill pumping stations to force CO2 back under earth.
I often thought of the wicked wonder of liquid sodium geothermal drillings at Yellowstone.
Think of the mayhem there too.
Scientists Discover That the Universe Is Getting Worse and Worse
New “Ghost Particles” Data Hints At Why The Universe Is Not Made Of Antimatter
The Boltzmann brain sort of shows a commonsense approach to the Immortal intelligence of an Eternal immortality forever universe that isn’t controlled or even in space time.
Blimey, that’s a party pooper, if ever there was one 
Interesting idea, Zac.
This is brutishly simplified, but there would be neither common sense nor an immortal intelligence doesn’t work if Boltzmann brain exists, because all observations of that brain are false or, at best, unreliable.
It’s more bleak than that; the current, most statistically probable models at the moment have the universe moving toward maximum entropy in which everything expands into a dark, low state of low energy and matter and light are so separated that there is not enough energy or matter for anything of consequence to happen.
I think that one of the reasons we keep pressing for other theories is that we don’t like that boring ending to the movie.
