When Phil tells Alex, "I remember when I heard there were more stars in the galaxy than grains of rice in a box of Uncle Ben's," Alex responds with, "No, there are more galaxies than grains of sand on all the world's beaches."
First, Phil is absolutely correct since there are approximately 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, with an upper limit of 700 billion, while the largest box of Uncle Ben's rice holds 36 ounces, or approximately 5.14 cups of dry rice at 7 ounces per cup, which translates to roughly 36,000 grains at 7000 grains per cup. Even if the there were ten times more rice in a cup, that would still only be 360,000 grains of rice, or not even 0.001% of 100 billion.
Second, estimates for the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches range from 10^18 to 10^24, while the latest Hubble data estimate 2 x 10^12 galaxies in the observable universe, which is still a million times smaller than even the lowest estimate for the number of sand grains.
First, Phil is absolutely correct since there are approximately 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, with an upper limit of 700 billion, while the largest box of Uncle Ben's rice holds 36 ounces, or approximately 5.14 cups of dry rice at 7 ounces per cup, which translates to roughly 36,000 grains at 7000 grains per cup. Even if the there were ten times more rice in a cup, that would still only be 360,000 grains of rice, or not even 0.001% of 100 billion.
Second, estimates for the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches range from 10^18 to 10^24, while the latest Hubble data estimate 2 x 10^12 galaxies in the observable universe, which is still a million times smaller than even the lowest estimate for the number of sand grains.
Gloria says that when Jay gave his speech at Mitch and Cams wedding he had cashews in his mouth. However in The Cold they watch a video of Mitch and Cams wedding and it showed him giving a nice speech and he was not eating anything.