Infinite number of planets with life

[Jackalope]

On the opposite site of the planet from you.

That's not much help. Which country,or are you too embarrassed to say?

Embarrassed, no. Easier to keep the joke on you rather than me, yes. Pacific NW USA.

Say, how do you blokes keep from falling off?

Aussies are smart enough to stay away from the edge.

No, man, I mean you guys are freaking UPSIDE DOWN! You got gravity boots or something?

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Interesting. I hadn't thought that there might be a resolution issue with respect to defining that flatness. I, too, appreciate the elegance of an omega = 0 universe, but appreciation of elegance of course does not lend validity. We'll just have to see what the latest in research can tell us.

Absolutely.

And yes, the universe owes nothing to our sense of elegance. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some curvature and that on a large scale was non-euclidean even though it appears to be on smaller scales. Much in the same way that at a quantum level things do not appear as they seem on larger scales.

Time will tell - and I hope that many of these questions are answered within my lifetime.