Author's Note: this entry was written as one piece, but only the first portion is being posted publically. It is therefore appearing in some form on both my blogs. I suspect this won't really matter to many of you, but there ya' go.
267 steps; 162 seconds. That is what it took, today, to get me from my desk to my car. In that time:
I moved 34.785 miles due to the rotation of the earth. (The speed of rotation is 1674 hm/hr at the equator; that times the cosine of 42 degrees, where Albany is in North latitude, is 1244 km/hr, or 733 m/hr; and that's 0.21 m/sec, times 162 seconds.)
675 people were born (per answers.com and 4.17 birthsper second)
291 people died (per answers.com and 1.8 deaths per second)
Someone working minimum wage at the Subway where I had lunch earned $0.32 (per NY's current minimum wage of $7.25.) Yes, this is significantly less than I make.
The US's public debt increased by $8,491,438.36 (found by taking Wikipedia's increase in 2010 of $1,653 billions and dividing by 31,536,000 seconds per 365 days.)
My cat Boggart's heart beat 432 times (per answers.com's low-end rate of 160 bpm and the assumption he's currently asleep on my pillow).
78,466,909.1 gallons of water went over Niagara Falls (based on Wikipedia's average flow rate of 64,750 ft/sec and 7.48 gallons per cubic foot.)
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