• SoloCritical@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    If you were to count 1 second, every second, until you reached one million. It will have taken you roughly 11 days.

    If you were to count 1 second, every second, until you reached one billion. It will have taken you over 33 years.

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      1 hour ago

      I like this one because it helps establish a relative analogy we can all kind of feel and puts things into perspective. We all know what 11 days feels like, and almost all of us know what 33 years feels like. Either because we may have lived it directly or we’ve lived enough of a portion of it to extrapolate that experience.

      One trillion seconds is almost 32,000 years. The analogy is broken again as 32K years is already becoming a nonsensical number that none of us can meaningfully interpret. It’s longer than all of recorded human history

      Anyways, https://apnews.com/article/musk-tesla-electric-trillion-pay-stock-f2140db92e8032121f4c114234059165