[snarks_when_bored]

This is pretty funny:

We know there are billions of galaxies, each of them containing somewhere between 100,000 and 1,000,000 stars. (The Spectator made a telling typographical error when it said there are “1022 visible stars.” They meant to say “1022.”)

CHARLITE, the second "1022" should look like this:  "10²²". But what's funny is the egregious order of magnitude error that the writer, Tucker, makes. In fact, a galaxy contains, on average, something like 100 billion stars, not 100,000 or 1,000,000. So, in trying to correct the American Spectator, Tucker makes a bigger error.

As I said, pretty funny.

[CHARLITE]

On the original page, he does type it correctly. It simply didn't translate when I copied it onto the posting form. Perhaps there is a way to write the small "22" (22nd power), but I don't have that capability, and I didn't see that it failed to copy correctly, but if you go to the page, using the link, you will see that he has it right. (Fourth paragraph down the page)
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18579/article_detail.asp

Char :)

[PeterFinn]

In many cities these days to say that you can 1,022 stars means it's a particularly clear night. I doubt you can see that many stars in LA on an average summer night.