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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-10 05:02 PM
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4. Probably not.
Observable matter (stars 'n' stuff) only makes up about 20% of the matter in the universe with dark matter accounting for the remaining 80%.

Since red dwarfs are tiny (less than half the size of our small sun), it would take a whole lot more than three times as many to make up the difference.

Just my non-expert opinion.
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  -Number of stars in universe may be vastly larger than thought n2doc  Dec-02-10 08:23 AM   #0 
  - You mean there are more than "billions and billions" ?  lumpy   Dec-02-10 09:00 AM   #1 
  - Beyond boggling. nt  snagglepuss   Dec-02-10 09:33 AM   #2 
  - Uh oh...  14thColony   Dec-02-10 04:50 PM   #3 
  - Probably not.  laconicsax   Dec-02-10 05:02 PM   #4 
     - No doubt you're right  14thColony   Dec-02-10 05:27 PM   #6 
  - Comment at the link:  laconicsax   Dec-02-10 05:07 PM   #5 
     - Global warming... we're overheating the sun by using solar panels.  krispos42   Dec-02-10 11:07 PM   #7 
     - No doubt that some amount of right wing hate radio and Faux news reaches the sun....  Thor_MN   Dec-03-10 08:13 AM   #8 
 

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