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GreenWave

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3. Since "uni" means "one", is it finally time to switch to cosmos?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2024, 12:17 PM

Feb 2024

I look back 125 years ago when it was widely believed that the Milky Way was "all that's out there." To paraphrase Carl Sagan... this misconception has been disproved billions and billions of times.
Why the quick rush to judgment to presuppose our cosmos is "all that's out there." ?

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