No Man's Sky players have already discovered more species than exist on Earth

No Man's Sky is one of the most expansive video games ever created, tasking players with exploring a procedurally generated universe so vast that everyone's experience will be different. It's unclear whether players can even run into others at all — two people playing the game yesterday claimed to have made it to the same location but couldn't see each other — but the chances of it happening in any case are extremely low.
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