Monday, January 3, 2011

7 Billion. For Realz.



This video reminds me of the time I was 9 and our family sat around the dinner table one night talking about how big a million and a billion are. Dad had come up with some awe-inspiring amount of time that it would take 1 million people to walk in front of our mailbox, one right after the other. I can't remember it now but I remember the feeling I had trying to comprehend that then. It's the same feeling I had just now trying to comprehend 7 billion people here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow. The world population has almost doubled in my lifetime.
More interesting population data:
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.php