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| Wierd Factoids | ||||||||||||||
| It would take a parrot, pecking randomly and tirelessly at a keyboard, with a talon occasionally bumping the shift key, 10^3,000,000 years to, by accident, produce a perfect copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | ||||||||||||||
| The number of protons in the known universe is about 10^80. | ||||||||||||||
| It would take a full beer can, sitting on a flat surface, to be suddenly toppled over onto its side by fundamental quantum fluctuations, about 10^10^33 years. The odds against this happening are 10^10^51 to 1. | ||||||||||||||
| The chances of a mouse surviving on the surface of the sun for a week are 10^10^42 to 1. | ||||||||||||||
| The probable age of our universe it 10^10,000,000 years. (This has obviously come under scrutiny, the mathematics involved here are from a few yers old Scientific American article, obviously astronomy is constantly changing because we're constantly learning new things.) | ||||||||||||||
| I will add more as I get them. | ||||||||||||||