"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)
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)...
ReplyDeleteYup, distance works too as long as its human scale!
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