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What are the odds of being alive and having the technology in place to witness any galactic event, on the galactic timescale? That's just so wild to me.

• saagarjha 2y ago
  Well, the galaxy being big helps ;)
• mr_toad 2y ago
  There are hundreds of billions of visible galaxies, which increases the odds.
• layer8 2y ago
  number of observable galaxies > galactic timescale ÷ human lifetime