What if Pinto was right.....?

Extremely careful readers of this blog will realize this dialogue has appeared before, but, whatever.   Reading Craig Newmark's blog made me think of it again.  There is this scene in the movie Animal House (I wish someone would Youtubeize it) where Boon and Katy are in the bathtub singing.....

"Hey, Paula.
I wanna marry you
Hey, Paula.
Nobody else could ever do
I've waited so long
For school to be through
I can't wait no more for you"

while Pinto and Professor Jennings are getting high and discussing life's possibilities......

"Okay.
That means that...our whole solar system...
could be, like...one tiny atom in the
fingernail of some other giant being.
This is too much! That means...-one tiny
atom in my fingernail could be--
-Could be one little...tiny universe.
Could l buy some pot from you?
(Snorting loudly)"

This was copied from Newmark's Door:

An astonishing concept has entered mainstream cosmological thought: physical reality could be hugely more extensive than the patch of space and time traditionally called “the universe.” We’ve learnt that we live in a solar system that is just one planetary system among billions, in one galaxy among billions. But there are signs that a further Copernican demotion confronts us. The entire panorama that astronomers can observe could be a tiny part of the aftermath of our Big Bang, which is itself just one bang among a potentially infinite ensemble. In this grander perspective, what we’ve traditionally called the laws of nature may be no more than parochial bylaws—local manifestations of “bedrock” laws that must be sought at a still deeper level.

Pinto was on to something.  Who knew?