I received this as an eMail from a friend.
How many zeros in a billion?
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.
1) A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
2) A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
3) A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
4) A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
5) A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending our money.
Washington , D. C
HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??
I think it only fair to point-out that as our national debt has grown from millions to billions to trillions, our scientific community, primarily funded by government, has responded with faster and faster calculators. We have moved from adding machines to calculators to computers in my lifetime. - 2q(Jim)
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