Was only quoting this today to a workmate, scary!

Comes up a lot these days when we talk about Billionaires and Millionaires. A Million dollars and I could retire. A Billion dollars and you could retire 1000 people just like me. 100 billion? Well that's 1oo,ooo people who would never have to work again. That's how math works.

appears i am only 2 billion seconds old/

If you had a billion pounds/dollars/yen/etc and spent 10,000 every day, it would take over 270 years to spend it all

Are we talking a billion as a thousand million, or a million million. Also a big difference

And a trillion seconds is over 30,000 years!

Meanwhile in Africa, every 60 seconds is equal to one hour in the rest of the world.

Same difference to a thousand seconds. Which is about 16 and a half minutes

I've lived slightly over 1 billion seconds

Yes, but the difference between 1 million microseconds and 1 billion microseconds is only 16 minutes and 40 seconds. That's still huge (relatively) but doesn't have the same effect.

this still stuns me

the same for dollars.

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And a trillion is 31,000 years. People throw those numbers around with abandon, but when you turn them into something less abstract (like time) $h!t gets real!

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How about a Trillion ?

That's just sad.

I’ve heard this one a hundred times and it blows my mind every single time… what a history

Not even remotely surprising...

Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, and Martin Luther King Jr were all born the same year.

It's different with meters 🤓

that's expensive 🙃

I so wish this was a massive exaggeration.

Put on some sunscreen, mate

One teaspoonful of this matter weighs more than 3 billion tons. If we were capable of dropping a small piece of neutron star onto the ground, it would slice through Earth like a bullet through cotton and come out the other side.

This does actually appear to be more-or-less correct, depending on the estimation of the bear population and the accuracy of the first Maine demographic statistics which popped up in a quick web search. Also, with the same caveat, there seems to be approximately one black bear for every square mile of Maine.

Haha. I just realised why.

Truly a shame...

Tell me I'm old without telling me I'm old

Also, they work extremely hard and live only about 8 days, while turtles don't do shït and get to live 150 years. Let it sink in.

But as a playing card company.

Our (grand)parents walking to school be like:

Radio waves are lazy. /.^.\

Yup myself and my twin

Doesn't make any sense. Needs better context

I see that. smart phones ,watches. appliances, TVs. and used by so many ppl. I hope the new fridge were getting comes with some free kimchi.