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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:41 pm    Post subject: A Billion! Reply with quote

A Billion!

The next time you hear a politician use the words "billion" casually, think about whether you want that politician spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its releases:

-A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

-A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

-A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

-A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool but not quite unless you round the numbers down (note these are from the top of my head onto a little pad of paper and they are probably wrong):

60 s x 60 m = 3600 s/h
3600 s/h x 24 h = 86400 s/d
86400 s/d x 365 d/y = 31536000 s/y
31536000 s/y x 44 y = 1387584000 s/44y

31536000 s/y x 2000 = 63072000000s when jesus was around
63072000000s / 60 = 1051200000m from when jesus was around

I dont know what years the stone age was in so Im not gunna go there but you can figure it out yourself.

Potatos probably wrong though.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Potato-VS- wrote:
Potatos probably wrong though.

I wouldn't even expect a potato to be able to post, so yeah.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stevo wrote:
Potato-VS- wrote:
Potatos probably wrong though.

I wouldn't even expect a potato to be able to post, so yeah.


they seem to be able to power clocks pretty well though
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and clog the arteries of millions of ppl. well at least the french fried ones
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