Am I reaching for too many stars?
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It is possible, but remember that once you are working is going to be hard to study.\nlike u I want to go to med school, but i decided not to hurry, you can always have contact with patients if you become voluntary member of a hospital or a clinic. that way u can iteract with patitens onl when u have the time, withut feeling the pressure that is your real job, and that also u have to study.
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You're not alone. I think we've all answered the life altering question "Is my Avatar HOT" out of boredom a time or two. I do think that the all out blitz to pile up points has gotten way out of hand. What purpose can be served with being able to say you have 10, 15, 30 & 50,000+ points other than to boost a fragile ego? Granted, some of the Q&As these people have are quite good, but they seem to have built a leagion of followers who hail them as a prophet based on their points total when in fact they pad that total with unlimited rates and votes points. The whole idea was to help, inform and have a little fun, not build an empire based on points for self-gratification, but I suppose that is the competitive nature of the beast. Getting voted as Best Answer and a few Thumbs Up, I will admitt, dose make me feel good knowing that someone appreciated what I had to say but it's not an all consuming mission. It has almost gotten to the point where Yahoo! has lost control of what started out as a good idea and I'm not sure how they can get it back.
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to many for me to count because i can't count that high will you do it for me?
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I've had 52. I'm not going, wow-wee look at me I am so brilliant and sexy etc etc. It's true, but I am not doing that.\n\nTell you what, I am going to post a question. Answer it with a good one and I will give you 10 points. You have one day to answer. Go to my profile to find out what question this is. Good luck!
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You've awakened the starry-eyed dreamer in me at this late hour!  I should be sleeping, but can't resist your question.\n\nHow many other planets, do I think?  Actually my number is a lot higher than millions!  In fact, on this subject you get into numbers so large that most of us humans cannot relate them to anything in our experience.  So, sadly, I doubt we can appreciate the grandeur of the universe.  But let me try...\n\nOne fairly recent estimate says there are 70 sextillion *visible stars* in range of modern telescopes (70,000 million million million).\n\nTo help put that in perspective, I'll use a rather old but useful analogy.  Imagine scooping up a big handful of sand at the beach. Try counting the grains of sand.  You'll give up, most likely, in seconds, assuming you even bother to try.  Now look all around you on the beach, and think about *that* number.  Now think about all the grains of sand on *all the world's* beaches... and deserts.  Now multiply that total number by ten, and you get approximately the number above -- of stars in the *known* universe.  The stars not visible to us by even our most powerful telescopes may equal the visible figure -- or be multiples of it.  Mind-boggling, no?\n\nSo to your planet question:  One next has to wonder how many of those stars are actually a sun to one or more planets (hey, I just noticed that was your wording, too; I like it).  Does every star have at least one planet revolving about it?  \n\nWell let's just be very conservative and say that there are only 70 sextillion stars in the *entire* (not just known) universe.  Let's further say that only one tenth of those stars (7 sextillion) have a planet orbiting them.  If we assume merely one planet per sun, then there must be at least 7 sextillion planets in the universe.  Using our sand analogy, that's a planet per grain of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts!\n\nAnyone who believes that is a reasonable number must surely wonder, "How could there NOT be living beings somewhere other than the earth?"  \n\nOf course not all planets will have life on them.  Earth may be the only body in our solar system, for example, which does harbor life, though at least one of Jupiter's moons is also a tantalizing possibility.\n\nIf only one out of a *thousand* of those planets are earth-like -- in the sense that they are rocky, not gaseous, and contain liquid water -- there may be 7 quintillion earth-like planets in the universe.  That's 7,000 thousand trillion.  I've been very careful, but if my math or estimates are off by even a factor of a *billion* there could be 7,000 million earth-like planets in the universe, a figure I think is extremely low.\n\nThese figures seems to jibe fairly well with an estimate of the number of earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, found at space.com (the bottom link in my sources) -- 30 billion, from a 2002 article.\n\nMy personal belief, based on numbers such as this, and on the likelihood that any planet supporting life may contain (extremely conservatively!) a thousand species...  is that there are *billions* of intelligent species in the universe outside the earth.\n\nSince you were wise to point out that we reside in the Milky Way galaxy, which is only one of perhaps billions of galaxies, you might be fascinated by the Hubble photo in the references, below.  I liked it so much, myself, that I made it my new desktop wallpaper.\n\nFinally, on the specific subject of life, there is a well-known method of estimating the number of intelligent, communicating civilizations, called the Drake Equation.  In my references you can see how it works to condense all the possible stars down by multiple factors, leaving the fraction which we may be able to communicate with, or at least hear from!  \n\nHappy dreaming (for me, too), and I hope you are as inspired by all this as I am.   :-)
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Don't  worry, as you get more points and get to higher levels you'll be able to ask and answer more and more questions. Just be patient.\nHave fun.  :)
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oh its just one of my attention-seeking antics. you know me. i like to be on the spotlight all the time and i like to be talked about.\n\ni have been desperately trying to be like mike and i try to copy the things that he's done like number-changing and all that crap. maybe I'll consider baseball in the future ha ha. but first i gotta win more scoring titles so that I'll be more like mike.\n\nas for the number, i think its kinda corny, but 24 is one up to his 23. i want to be like mike but at the same time, i want to be better than him. badly. i know you guys don't agree with me but i am better than him. i am the best.\n\nBy the way, where the **** have you been? This question has been posted a ******* countless times already!\n\nBut it's all good. Like I said, I like to be talked about!
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Yes the Sun is a star.\n\nAnd off topic...\n\nDoes anybody find excessive cutting and pasting a boor??
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i have 2080 points atm so i would say yes :)
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I dunno, possibly. I'd specify too much points, per unit time. You could have 1 million points, but if it took you 1 million days to get them, you really haven't spent all that much of your time on it. I think I'd become a little concerned somewhere around 1,000 points/week. But that's just me.
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Close your eyes then wish upon a star !! That should do miracles for you !!!
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I dunno. Why don't you ask the stars up above?
971564
A bit too many request, don't you think?
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no ...too young. you have lots of time. be patient
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First of all, to get the best answers, you should ask this question in the Yahoo! Answers subcategory of Yahoo! Products.\n\nI've been on the site for just over two months. Other top users have been here for a shorter or longer period of time. Most of the time spent on the site is devoted to answering questions well. If there's a subject you know well, stick to it for a while. See if there are any old questions about that subject that you can answer.\n\nOf course, spending excessive amount of time on Yahoo! Answers could negatively affect your personal life, so you may want to consider your priorities before you attempt to reach 40,000 points yourself.
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It seems to me that you are on the right track.  I've noticed that questions in the survey catergory seem to get a lot of answers!
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Most likely it's mental. If I were you I would do 305 for a little bit even if your reps are less. Get yourself thinking that 300 is just a platform. Make sure that you are not the strongest person that you hang out with.