A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
To put a billion in perspective, consider …
A billion seconds ago it was 1981
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
Think about that the next time a politician casually drops the word “billion”.
Source: viral email
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March 1, 2013 at 12:23 pm |
There are many ways to think about time and money. To put one billion dollars together, you just need to ask about $3 to each American… no big deal. The US army spends about $2 bn every day anyway…
To *earn* one billion dollars…. well, forget about it! :)
And, I’m not sure when this ode was written, but one billion seconds occurs after 31 years, 8 months, 7 days, 1 hour and 46 minutes. Find out the first time you “became a billionaire” on http://www.gen-gen.ch/Calculateur-anniversaires (it’s the first time – at least for me – that I “had” one billion of a unit that was used on a daily basis). So one bn seconds ago from today was June 23, 1981.