[brink]

All these stars, and every one of them is unique. It boggles the mind.

[pantalaimon]

Only the sharp dots are stars - all those fuzzy little orbs in the background are galaxies

[diggan]

> every one of them is unique

How sure of this are we? Feels like we've can only confirm that's true for a small selection of the vast total.

[chrisan]

Think of them like snowflakes

[recursive]

So not all unique.

[Etheryte]

To quote [0]:

> Although snowflakes are all the same on an atomic level (they are all made of the same hydrogen and oxygen atoms), it is almost impossible for two snowflakes to form complicated designs in exactly the same way. While snowflakes can be sorted into about forty categories, scientists estimate that there are up to 10^158 snowflake possibilities. (That’s 10^70 times more designs than there are atoms in the universe!)

[0] https://ssec.si.edu/stemvisions-blog/are-all-snowflakes-real...

[recursive]

I don't think this is what people are talking about when they say "no two snowflakes are the same". Treated this way, no two of anything could ever be the same. Why even bother having the word "same"?

[dumbo-octopus]

Sure, but you could say the same for white t shirts.

[dumbo-octopus]

We can’t really confirm it for anything. It’s all up to the axioms you choose. Equally reasonable ones would have them all distinct, uniform, and everything in between.