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Hard to fathom (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not really.

You go from -more or less- 11 days to 11.000 days. At -say for easy numbers- 333 days a year, you get to 11.000 / 333, which is about 100/3 which is about 30, 30 days...

Back of a napkin calculations greatly help in getting a better sense of these numbers.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It's 1000x bigger. You don't need to disseminate it. But people aren't built to grasp numbers like one thousand million. It's just too fucking big.

[–] Soulg@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Except still kind of yes. To the majority of people, 11,000 days won't mean very much, but 30 years will immediately make it click.