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"Almost every possible absurd claim is false."
Ah, I see you have adopted Douglas Adams' argument which demonstrates that the population of the universe is zero.
Aha - I knew this sounded familiar. For those not familiar with it, here it is:
Retrieved from http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Universe
EDIT: note that this doesn't work, for several obvious reasons, notably that a subset of an infinite set can be infinite.