Every day we read about this government committee needed so-many billion dollars for such and such, or this organization spending so-many billion dollars to build XYZ. We hear “billon dollars” so much that it has lost some of its meaning. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion days ago no-one walked on two feet on earth.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate the government spends it.
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Interesting article, added his blog to Favorites
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