Exploring Tangents of Random Curiosity may not yield thoughts worthy of the NYTimes Bestseller list, but the "Tang-ran" exercise is worthwhile. In the wake of yesterday's "Big Bang" blog, I got to thinking about the 14 billion year history of the universe (I suspect Kurt Vonnegut's mind wandered off into Tang-ran mode while writing Slaughterhouse Five ... or perhaps he was just stoned):
• 4,000 years of recorded history could have occurred 3.5 million times since the Big Bang (a huge window of opportunity for alternate and pre-historic universes filled with Romulans and Borg).
• The Bang theoretically occurred roughly 250 million generations ago (a potentially devastating stat for proponents of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon concept).
• That's 5.1 trillion days, 122 trillion hours, 7.4 quadrillion minutes or 442 quadrillion seconds. (So, in the grand scheme of things, that blind date last week only seemed like an eternity.)
Poo-tee-weet, y'all ....
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