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To: cynwoody

The original text at CTH reads:

"Two billion seconds ago it was still 1959. How big is a trillion? (a thousand billions)."

29 posted on 04/30/2016 7:21:49 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")

To: zzeeman

Although two billion is closer to 1952 than 1959.

(Extrapolating backward the 32 year difference that your function yielded.)

31 posted on 04/30/2016 7:27:58 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")

To: zzeeman

The original text at CTH reads:

"Two billion seconds ago it was still 1959.

Two billion seconds ago, HST had about five weeks left in office.

ruby -e "puts Time.at(Time.now - 2e9)"
1952-12-14 11:57:19 -0500

How big is a trillion? (a thousand billions).

According to Google, a trillion seconds in years = 31709.7919837646 years.

38 posted on 04/30/2016 1:41:16 PM PDT by cynwoody

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