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"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: Hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule." - Buddha Shakyamuni
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Life is unfair...

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@Aisling "I'm a scientist, yes, and we can't count that high either," Ioan said with a smile. "We just calculate with those numbers, and we don't write a 7 with 22 zeroes, by the way. Instead, we write "7 times 10 to the 21st power" or "7*10^22". This is much shorter. You should know that scientists are lazy. And I can't answer that question, but it might be so."
@Aisling "I'm truly serious," Ioan answered. "We didn't count them all. These are only estimates that calculations gave us. By the way, according to calculations, there's much more grains of sand on Earth than there are stars in the universe."
@Aisling Ioan shook his head. "There are much, much more. In total, we can see five thousand stars with the naked eye - 2500 on each hemisphere - but some astronomers estimate that there are 70 quintrillion stars in the observable universe. That is a number with 22 zeroes."
@Aisling "That's right. Astronomers measure the brightness of a celestial body in magnitudes, short m: The higher the magnitude, the fainter the object," Ioan explained. "With the naced eye, you can see up to about 5-6m, while the magnitude of Polaris B is 9m."
@Aisling "You're welcome," Dracula answered. Then, he fainted again.

"It's called Polaris B," Ioan answered.
@Aisling "Insurance is easy: You just need to fill in a form. Citizenship is a bit harder: You need to speak Romanian, and you need to have lived here for at least five years," Dracula answered.

"Exactly," Ioan answered and demonstrated it by typing in some coordinates. "Now, just take a look through it. You should be able to see the North Star and its companion star."
@Aisling "You can still get one here... it's not about being a resident of Romania. Our health care system is a bit different," Dracula said. "I could help you with finding one."

"No," Ioan answered. "You just need the coordinates of the object you want to look at. Then, you type them into the computer. The rest will be done automatically."
@Aisling "You should leave a country where help is dependent on money right away," Dracula said. "Here in Romania, you don't have to pay for a wheelchair. We've got good health insurances here, which will pay for all the aids that are needed."

"It is so large because the larger it is, the more light it can collect, and the more light it can collect, the more objects you can see," Ioan answered. "But this one still is small, compared to what professionals use."
@Aisling Good night
@Aisling "Needed to go to the bathroom," the father answered.

Ioan continued his tour. The next room they entered was a building with a telescope. "That's the other public part of the observatory."
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