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I don’t think all the math is right here. A billion seconds is like 31 years, not 64.
Good post, thanks,
A way of looking at the US national debt is this: At 0.0042” per dollar bill (I put a micrometer on a dollar bill.), the $31.38T debt is equivalent to a stack of dollar bills that is 2,080,113 miles high or a bit over eight times the distance between the earth and the moon.
Good post. I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said something like this: When the people start voting themselves money, that’s the end of the republic.
It is true that there are always relatively poor people but the kind and beneficiant impulse to help them has been hijacked by strident demands for money by so-called activists and grifting politicians portraying themselves as agents of the beneficial impulse. All the while, making a lot of money for themselves. Dishonest and disgusting.
Our government is very much like an imaginary game of Monopoly, only when a player passes Go he/she/they gets to enact any new rule desired. Pretty soon the game becomes unplayable.
Though our legislative practices are a bit slower, the outcome is similar - Congress passes law after law with little regard as to consequences or cost. In the haste to look like they are doing something & to convince voters that theirs is the party to back, Congress & the President rarely reject any opportunity to spend money we don’t have.
If we ever want again a government “of the people, by the people, & for the people”, I fear it will require another bloody revolution.
Using 365.2425 days/year to normalize leap years, our Lab calculates:
10^9 seconds [= 31.69 years] ago it was 1991 [Q2].
10^9 minutes [= 1,901.32 years] ago it was calendar 121 A.D. [Q3], so Jesus had [briefly] died 88 years earlier (in 33 A.D. [Q2] ).
10^9 hours [= 114,079.46 years] ago "our ancestors were living in the Stone Age."
Stone Age started ~ 2.6*10^6 years ago, so Yes, late Stone Age.
10^9 days [= 2,737,907 years] ago "no one walked on the earth on two feet."
That was ~ 138,000 years prior to the Stone Age, so OK.
10^9 years ~= 1/13.5 = 7.41% of our observable universe's estimated age.