"It is hard to picture a billion, but perhaps it is easier to conceive of it in terms of time. There are sixty seconds in one minute; 3,600 seconds in an hour. To reach a million seconds would take twelves days; to reach one billion seconds takes thirty-two years."
Gerard Lyons, The Consolations of Economics (2014)
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2 comments:
distance is good, too... since the beginning of the earth, 4.5 billion yrs ago, human life would occupy the last inch in a 100 yard football field (more or less)...
Yup, distance works too as long as its human scale!
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