2007-06-14 23:26:27 · 18 answers · asked by Jamie M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No thats not true rather youd be closer compairing every grain of sand in the sahara desert to the amout of stars. I read a book about this there coluld be millions of galaxyes each capable of supporting a billion stars.
2007-06-15 00:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all.
But what is true, and what you may have been confused by, is that the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke remarked in the introduction to his 1968 book "2001: A Space Odyssey" that the number of human beings who had ever lived, and the number of stars in our own galaxy (the Milky Way), were approximately equal at about 100 billion.
There are billions of galaxies in the universe, and about 95% of all the people who have ever lived on Earth are dead, and the unaided human eye can only see about 6000 stars in the sky, which are a lot of wildly different numbers, so you have to be sure you know which number you are talking about.
2007-06-15 16:22:33 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just figure of speech. Of course not, people on earth are not even a tiny bit many as the stars in the sky.
2007-06-15 06:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by Wintermute 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There are actually about 40 times as many stars in the Milky Way alone than there are humans on earth. And the Milky Way is only one out of hundreds of millions of galaxies in the universe.
2007-06-15 13:14:09 · answer #4 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows the exact number of people on earth at a given moment? Consider the fact that every second hundreds of thousand of child birth is taking place and thousands are dying? Even global census does not have anything near accurate on the total number of population at a given time.
The Universe is still a mystery. We still do not know how many planets are there in total, in the entire deep space, forget about stars.
I believe it would be absurd to compare the two. To me the answer to your question is NOT TRUE. Thinks about it logically.
2007-06-15 06:34:49 · answer #5 · answered by aprilboy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is about 6 billion people on earth,and unknown quadrillions of stars in the universe.
6.000,000,000 People
6,000,000,000,000,000 Stars.
2007-06-15 09:54:16 · answer #6 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latest population of earth is about 6.6 billion.
Large as this is, the number of stars in the universe is many magnitudes larger.
2007-06-15 07:01:38 · answer #7 · answered by tsr21 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely not. there are more stars in the sky than people on earth
2007-06-15 06:31:43 · answer #8 · answered by Lyrad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The total number of people on earth who have ever lived doesn't even come anywhere close to the number of stars in the Milky Way.
Number of people alive now, approx 6,000,000,000...
number who have ever lived, guess-timate another 2 billion at MOST for a total of 8 billion.
Number of stars in Milky Way: 100,000,000 to 10,000,000,000 depending upon which source cited.
The number of grains of sands on all the beaches on the entire planet doesn't come anywhere near the total number of stars in the universe.
2007-06-15 07:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no
there are many more stars in the universe then people on earth.
also, the number of stars visible with the naked eye is much less then the number of people on earth.
so either way, no.
2007-06-15 11:19:17 · answer #10 · answered by outbaksean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋