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[2smokinberyls smockfrocks]

A million seconds is around 11.5 days.
A billion seconds is approximately 31.7 years.

around?

lazy calculations are not interesting...
a million seconds is 11days 13hours 46mins and 40secs.

and billions are dull,
let's talk quadrillions of seconds...
31,688,087.81402895 years

edit:
and zillions don't really exist.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

around?

lazy calculations are not interesting...
a million seconds is 11days 13hours 46mins and 40secs.

and billions are dull,
let's talk quadrillions of seconds...
31,688,087.81402895 years

edit:
and zillions don't really exist.

How many nanoseconds would that be?
Off the top of your head.

 

[2smokinberyls smockfrocks]

How many nanoseconds would that be?
Off the top of your head.

fucking loads, mate

 

[2smokinberyls smockfrocks]

@1.618034 might be able to help

 

[Bill Walker]

Rescued Fruit Bats in a sanctuary in outer Brisbane. These have a wingspan of about a metre. First one's I saw were in Brisbane city centre at dusk flying around some huge trees, freaked me out a bit.

 

[2smokinberyls smockfrocks]

Rescued Fruit Bats in a sanctuary in outer Brisbane. These have a wingspan of about a metre. First one's I saw were in Brisbane city centre at dusk flying around some huge trees, freaked me out a bit.

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probably a stupid question,
but from what were they rescued?

 

[Blue Mist]

probably a stupid question,
but from what were they rescued?

They were in the wild ffs, of course they needed rescuing.
Give it a couple more nights and they could have died.

 

[Lavinda Past]

A 16-year-old schoolboy Francis Seldon made a pun about Louis XIV’s baldness during a royal visit to a school in Clermont. Louis had the boy thrown into the Bastille, where he remained in solitary confinement for 69 years.

In 1674, the time of the king’s visit, Francis Seldon was the son of a rich Irish family who had sent him to France to get a first-class education. His crime was putting up a poster mocking his Jesuit teacher’s habit of holding king above God.

For this Seldon was imprisoned, and his parents were informed that the boy had disappeared. They died still believing this, at which point Seldon inherited the family fortune.

But Seldon wasn’t released for 31 years, and only then because a Jesuit priest petitioned on his behalf, in return for 98 per cent of his assets. Seldon returned to Ireland, physically broken but a wealthy man, at least until he honoured his contract with the Jesuits.

 

[Lavinda Past]

probably a stupid question,
but from what were they rescued?

Peter Cushing

 

[2smokinberyls smockfrocks]

A 16-year-old schoolboy Francis Seldon made a pun about Louis XIV’s baldness during a royal visit to a school in Clermont. Louis had the boy thrown into the Bastille, where he remained in solitary confinement for 69 years.

In 1674, the time of the king’s visit, Francis Seldon was the son of a rich Irish family who had sent him to France to get a first-class education. His crime was putting up a poster mocking his Jesuit teacher’s habit of holding king above God.

For this Seldon was imprisoned, and his parents were informed that the boy had disappeared. They died still believing this, at which point Seldon inherited the family fortune.

But Seldon wasn’t released for 31 years, and only then because a Jesuit priest petitioned on his behalf, in return for 98 per cent of his assets. Seldon returned to Ireland, physically broken but a wealthy man, at least until he honoured his contract with the Jesuits.

it's an interesting story but is there a moral?