2716.Sometime today, the world will welcome its seven billionth human being. We'll never be sure for certain exactly which one of us will be #7,000,000,000, but, odds being what they are, it'll be someone in India.
If you counted out loud, at one per second, it would take you about 113 years to count to the number 7,000,000,000.
7,000,000,000 seconds ago, George Washington was being inaugurated President of the United states.
I went to this nifty website mounted by the BBC, The World At Seven Billion, and I found out this much about myself:
… so you can call me sir, thankyewverymuch.
No fair guessing my birthday from this. Have some couth.
So, take a moment. Celebrate. Have a Twinkie. And look with love upon the horizons before us … because, likely as not, you're probably staring at someone. And staring is rude, yo.
They say that seven billion people, if placed shoulder to shoulder, could stand on Los Angeles. Of couse, looked at another way, we could also say they could stand on Zanizibar.
And so it goes.
If you counted out loud, at one per second, it would take you about 113 years to count to the number 7,000,000,000.
7,000,000,000 seconds ago, George Washington was being inaugurated President of the United states.
I went to this nifty website mounted by the BBC, The World At Seven Billion, and I found out this much about myself:
… so you can call me sir, thankyewverymuch.
No fair guessing my birthday from this. Have some couth.
So, take a moment. Celebrate. Have a Twinkie. And look with love upon the horizons before us … because, likely as not, you're probably staring at someone. And staring is rude, yo.
They say that seven billion people, if placed shoulder to shoulder, could stand on Los Angeles. Of couse, looked at another way, we could also say they could stand on Zanizibar.
And so it goes.
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