A Billion Options

[All over but the Crying]

A Billion.........

The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion," casually, think about whether you want the 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.. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
b.. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
c.. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
d.. A billion days ago no-one walked on two feet on earth.
e.. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government spends it.

[Bargod]

A billion grains of sand is 1 cubic yard. Our galaxy has approximtely 400 billion stars in it. That means that if a grain of sand is a star it would take 4 cubic feet of sand to make just our galaxy alone. The Hubble space telescope is can make out an estimated 80 billion galaxies (a very small percentage of the Universe).
Perspective is relative.