Word b?I'm not denying this by any means, but how do they know it's 8.8 billion exactly? It would take more than a lifetime just to count to that number.
I always love teaching bytches about the planets and stars, though, and putting into perspective that we can't possibly be the only forms of life in the universe. They always think I'm a genius when I go into it because astronomy genuinely does interest me. Last chick I was with, I was on vacation with her parents and I went into my universe/aliens spiel and they asked her when I wasn't around if I was an Atheist.
So you make it a point to add Sci-Fi/Scientific fodder to your G game...
But you don't know that it is most likely an approximation based on a complex algorithim?