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Glenn Hefley

Oct 4, 2026

I million seconds is about ~12 days

1 billion seconds is about ~32 years

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how's that for perspective?

Responses (6)

Edgar Walkowsky

Oct 5

A trillion seconds is 32,000 years! The US debt is 1.3 million years!

Alexis Archer

Oct 7

Glenn,
Most person's have no 'grasp' of these humongous sums of monies being bandied about.
It is inconceivable!
All should be aware, this is NOT 'monopoly money'. It is real capital in search of investment.
When the 'holders' of roving capital…

Brian Low

Oct 7

When u stack 1 trillion US bill guess how many round the equator of earth will it goes? Indeed we cannot wrap our vision lacking mind around big as well as sub-nano numbers.. How many fractional hairsplit can we even visualise.