09-07-2014, 02:04 PM
Honestly, there was a time when this inconsistency would have bothered me. But now that I truly believe the message behind the material, the exact numbers are unimportant.
Let's say for the sake of argument the minimum would be 67 million planets. The only comparison I can make to inhabited planets would be the nation-states of Earth. I can barely phathom the 200ish countries this world has, let alone more than 67 million or more this galaxy has. So in my mind the number becomes simply "there's a whole bunch of inhabited planets."
Let's say for the sake of argument the minimum would be 67 million planets. The only comparison I can make to inhabited planets would be the nation-states of Earth. I can barely phathom the 200ish countries this world has, let alone more than 67 million or more this galaxy has. So in my mind the number becomes simply "there's a whole bunch of inhabited planets."