The Trillion-Dollar Saganesque Big Number Fog
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Back when Carl Sagan was a thing, he was mocked (even by Johnny Carson though, if you are interested, here’s also an actually interesting, mostly serious, conversation between the two) for talking about the universe—stars, galaxies—using language that often depicted the scale of the universe using “billions and billions” as a yardstick for size…