Aug 25 2009
How many billions in a trillion?
By Heath Raftery
You are currently participating in a mighty event.
When it is over the world will have moved 2,000 kilometres through the solar system. Mankind will have expended around 30 million megajoules just staying alive and added about four billion grams of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in the process. Approximately 14 hectares of forest will have been cut down and more than 100 people will have died.
Bead, ribbon, staccato, fork, Ground-to-cloud, Cloud-to-cloud, sheet, heat, dry, rocket, positive, ball, sprites, blue jets, elves. The many kinds of lightening. Image: wikipedia
The Earth will be hit by lightning 6,000 times and there’s not a thing you can do to stop it.
