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August 26, 2015
Holmes sentenced to life plus 3,318 years for Colorado theater massacre (+video)
Assuming he lives another 60 years, he never becomes eligible for parole, he has just $10,000 in student loan debt now, and the interest rate is locked in at 5%, then he will owe $3.8 x 1075 upon his release (in 3,378 years).
That's far more dollars than the number of milligrams of mass in the known observable universe (estimated to be 3 x 1058).
Is it just me, or are we going to need yet another bank bailout of epic proportions at some point in the future? Has he set into motion the method of our country's demise?
Exponential growth, whatcha gonna do? *shrug shoulders*
This is the End and a New Beginning
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I've been thinking about this for some time.
After 21 years of writing this blog almost daily, I've decided to stop
writing the daily updates on the blog.
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2 weeks ago
2 comments:
A brilliant calculation, sir. Hats off!
I particularly enjoyed "more dollars than the number of milligrams of mass in the known observable universe" which is a wonderfully adjustable comparison. If someone says "dark matter" you just turn to microgram, and so on.
dearieme,
The original statistic was, as you can guess, in kilograms. It just didn't seem to do it justice.
I thought about going to something even smaller than milligram, but I wanted there to be at least some hope that most people could put it in perspective, lol. Sigh.
Hey, maybe we can start a new viral campaign.
DarkMatterMatters! :)
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