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Re:The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky... by ceejayoz on Sunday February 06, 2011 @12:38PM (#2186000)
The really amazing thing about that link is how much empty space we're made up of on an atomic and subatomic level.
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Re:The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky... by ars on Sunday February 06, 2011 @02:50PM (#2186294)
On a subatomic (and subnucleonic) scale it's 100% empty space.

Fundamental particles are true point particles and no spatial extent has ever been found for them.

So it's not just a lot of empty space - it's nothing except empty space.

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Re:The Size of the Human Radio-Broadcast Bubble in the Milky... by JonnieCache on Sunday February 06, 2011 @04:48PM (#2186541)
And at the intergalactic level. The universe really is extraordinarily vacant for such an interesting place to live.
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