Jack Albrecht
Nov 26, 2021

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A common comparison used a million seconds is 11 days and a billion seconds is 31 years. I find a comparison of people is easier for people visualize than lengths of time.

For westerners: 1 million people is considerably more than the population of Seattle or San Francisco, but far fewer than in Adelaide. Not small cities, but nothing like NY, LA, Sydney or Melbourne. 1 billion people is everyone in North America AND 80% of everyone in Europe.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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