{"id":3924,"date":"2009-10-22T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2009-10-22T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T08:00:17","slug":"dare-i-say-it-dare-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3924","title":{"rendered":"Dare I Say It?  Dare, Dare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/sciguy\/archives\/2009\/10\/dare_you_even_think_the_whole_universe_is_just_her.html\">Dare you even think the whole universe is just here for us?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An idea of the scale of numbers and what they mean, from a summary of a Neil deGrasse Tyson talk, reminiscent of the &#8220;powers of ten.&#8221;  There&#8217;s a real kicker at the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>50 billion<\/strong>: This is what Bill Gates was worth before the recession. To understand this, imagine you make a reasonably good living in the low six figures. With such an income you would be too busy to stop and bend over to pick up a dime, but you would stop for a quarter. By scaling this number up to Gates&#8217; wealth, he would be too busy to bend over and pick up &#8230; $45,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare you even think the whole universe is just here for us? An idea of the scale of numbers and what they mean, from a summary of a Neil deGrasse Tyson talk, reminiscent of the &#8220;powers of ten.&#8221; There&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3924\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}