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<p>Hey, guess what?
Only 4 percent of the universe is made of the kind of matter that makes up you and me and this computer and all the planets and stars in our galaxy and in all 125 billion galaxies beyond. The rest -96 percet of the universe- is…who knows? </p>

<p>“We’re just a bit of pollution,” Lawrence M. Krauss, a theorist at Case Western Reserve, said not long ago at a public panel on cosmology in Chicago. “If you got rid of us, and all the stars and all the galaxies and all the planets and all the aliens and everybody, then the universe would be largely the same. We’re completely irrelevent.” </p>

<p>—> Ultimate reason why what college you go to doesn’t matter :slight_smile: </p>

<p>(Source: NYT Magazine March 11, 2007. Check it out for yourself, or just google it. Interesting stuff.)</p>

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<p>It might not matter to the universe but it matters to me.</p>

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<p>^ agreed.</p>

<p>i hate it when people insist on how nothing we do matter in the grand scheme of things. maybe though, it’s because i don’t give a crap about too much more than my happiness.</p>

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<p>To clarify, I actually didn’t make this thread to prove “how nothing we do matter[sic] in the grand scheme of things.” I just found the fact pretty amazing.</p>

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<p>i realize this. my rant was directed at the author of that quote.</p>