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.

wrong, it was 1974

that one isn't quite accurate either, a billion minutes would put u in the year 102 AD.

well i dunno when the stone age was, but that would put us in the year 112,150 BC so that would prolly be the stone age

that would put us 2,737,721 BC... dunno if things walked back then or not.

good analogies tho.

dude

I just passed this on. Thanks for having no life and actually taking the time to check those stats.

lol

LMAO

TE=0wn3d

ahahaahah that was awesome

your welcome, it only took 2 minutes wit my calculator

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I'll do you one better.
The stone age isn't set, it's different for different parts of the world.
All depends on when the inhabitants moved to metalworking and the bronze age.
Or even better... It really only applies to a European timetable.


I would have to agree with TE on this one.
How ever originally wrote that should of got the numbers right.
Especially for something as near as what year it was a billion seconds ago.

maybe it was written 15 years ago. The point is that a billion is a big number for us to really comprehend.

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.

or my all time favorite
Carl Sagan from his Cosmos show
Billions and Billions of stars.

They are going to re-air the entire Cosmos series starting next week.

Oh crap, my wife and I already argue over who is the biggest geek in the family. She can't go without watching History Detectives. Now I've got Cosmos back!?!?! Ahhh shit... Look Out!

Is that something you win or lose?

Saucy... lol, i heard there's about 20 billion billion stars in teh universe. If u type out the numbers it's 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 or more, weird to me.

dude, BG, that is teh SHOW!! i like history detectives. i aslo like the series The Thousand-Day War on the History Channel and Battlefield Vietnam on the Military Channel.