Things You Thought You Knew – Billionaires in Space
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How to Conceive a Million Earths Inside of the Sun
astrophysicist: I'm still trying to conceive of a million earths inside of the white yellow ball that I look up and see in the sky. If you showed the sun, sort of large enough to see in the middle of the solar system, the Earth would be too small. But as an astrophysicist, we are steeped in it. We are baptized in it. And so we have a slightly better facility thinking this way than most everybody else that doesn't have to confront it in everyday life.
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