A Billion Seconds

[Blastgirl]

Several years ago Baron of Brappps had said that he gets tired of people who exaggerate. Overly not just an occasional mention. Well he told a story that he had asked a Customer to wait a second and the man replied by saying he had been waiting a Billion Seconds.

Baron mentioned that to figure out how long it takes for a billion seconds it takes about thirty-one years, eight months and two weeks and some days and hours.

I also remember at the time Baron figured that out Phil was just about a Billion Seconds old within a few days of that.

A tad over a year ago Baron Reminded Classicblast that he was approaching that Billionaire status.

With Classic being a year and a few weeks older than me I'm just about at that Billion seconds old age plateau.

In case anybody is curious how long it takes to reach a billion seconds.

[Mahnarch]

If I had a penny for every second old I was.....it'd start to look like a pretty good deal, right now.

I'd keep them in my custom made 'Money Bin' and swim amongst the pile.

Let's see:

60x60=3600/hour

5280/3600=1.47ft/sec....no wait, wrong calculation.

3600x24=86,400/day

86,400x365=31,536,000/year

1,000,000,000/31,536,000= 31.709

70% of 12 would be 8 months and four days.

So, 31 years, 8 months and 4 days to the second you were born.
Does that sound about right?

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Here's that other calculation I started.

60x60=3600sec/hour.

5280ft per mile / 3600sec = 1.47ft/sec.

At 60mph you're going 1 mile per minute, or 88.2ft/sec.
You throw away the .2 (in court) and it works out pretty darn good.

At 45mph you're going 66ft/sec.
At 70mph 103ft/sec.

But, it never seems to go any quicker, does it?

But, memorise the ft/sec at various speeds and start spouting out mathematics alongside the road or while fighting the ticket and you'll most likely win.
Government hates math. It's their Kryptonite. Just look at the National Defecit.

Cripple them even further with angles and radar capture windows.

[Phil]

Yep, 31 years 8 months and 4 days. Brown Baron made that calculation.
I kind of forgot about that thread. I remember that being said and I was just about at that billion second point when that got posted that would have been about March of 2003 for me.

And right now congratulations Blastgirl. I remember mention of Classicblast's billion second milestone too. Twice a billion in a years time in 1 hosuehold how lucky can you get?

[cactus1]

Government hates math.

No, they hate the truth.

[Classicblast]

I remember that. A billion seconds.
There was another post here I remember seeing somewhere else too about time and the way of showing the concept of seconds.

I'll try to remember it the context will be close.
Imagine a bank account where there was a daily deposit of 86400 dollars.
You cannot reuse that money or save it for the next day but you can use all of it and the next day there would be another deposit of $86400.

There is such a bank and that bank is time. 24 hours, 60 minutes per hour breaks down to 86,400. seconds in a day. Everyday you get a fresh 86,400 seconds. Time is like money. You can invest it, make use of it or just squander it, the choice is yours.

To learn the value of a year ask a student who has had to repeat a grade.
To learn the value of a month, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To learn the value of a week ask someone who has waited for shipped goods.
To learn the value of a day ask a student who has had to cram for finals,
To learn the value of an hour ask a parent who's child is late coming home.
To learn the value of a minute, ask anybody who has missed an airplane,
to learn the value of a second, ask anybody who has narrowly avoided an accident,
to learn the value of a millisecond ask an athlete who won a silver medal.

[Mahnarch]

I'd stay away from anyone that's had to repeat a grade...they were usually the Bully and were bigger and made you do their homework.

I repeated Kindergarten.
I was too busy talking and seeing what everyone else was doing.

Hmm, that should have made me the bully, but I was nice.
I was also the only 9th grader to go through driver's ed and get a car.

I was a god....for a year.

[Blastgirl]

mahnarch said:

I'd stay away from anyone that's had to repeat a grade...they were usually the Bully and were bigger and made you do their homework.

You could do their homework in a way that the bully could have to repeat the grade again. Then you get the last laugh. ;D

[Phil]

Yeah Mahnarch you're only about a year away so I'll have to remember this.

Fair warning people I might bump this thread when the time is right for that occasion.

[Mahnarch]

Oh, dear.

Yeah, you'll have to remind me.

The date would be: January 7, 2009 at 1:15:38pm EDT.

[Phil]

mahnarch said:

Oh, dear.

Yeah, you'll have to remind me.

The date would be: January 7, 2009 at 1:15:38pm EDT.

Noted and logged.

[Kimm]

Im 26 so I got a while before I reach that milestone.

Looking at this I think of someone counting to a billion on their fingers.

[Blastgirl]

I'm still excited to have surpassed that billion second marker.

[Mahnarch]

Most women would say, "I'm only a million seconds old."

Good for you to be excited and not embarrassed about your age.

I'm now older than my mom - she'll be the only wrinkly, grey haired 29 year old on the planet in a few years. lol.

[Blastgirl]

mahnarch said:

Most women would say, "I'm only a million seconds old."

Good for you to be excited and not embarrassed about your age.

I'm now older than my mom - she'll be the only wrinkly, grey haired 29 year old on the planet in a few years. lol.

That's an on going thing I guess. My Grandma is still "Thirty-Nine"

I don't care about age it doesn't matter.