A closer look
Trees on Earth drastically outnumber the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, totaling an estimated three trillion compared to a maximum of four hundred billion stars. Most people look up at the night sky and marvel at the endless vastness of the cosmos, assuming nothing could ever beat those astronomical numbers. Yet, we are absolutely swamped by biological wood down here on the surface. We spend billions of dollars building space telescopes to search for complex structures in the infinite void, completely ignoring the fact that our own muddy rock is currently winning the numbers game by a massive, leafy margin
