On the very first day of my 8th grade year at Essex High School in Tappahannock, Va, in the Fall of 1985, our World Geography teacher was trying to make a dramatic point about how big a number a billion is for some reason and asked us, "you know what was happening a billion seconds ago?" to which we all blankly stared back at him before he answered himself with "World War II" and if such a thing had existed at the time he would have dropped the mic. We were all very much appropriately awestruck.
But just now it occurred to me to look it up and a billion seconds is just under 32 years, which would've put us in the year...1953. Eight years after WWII ended. I mean dafuck, a billion seconds in 1985 still meant the same thing as a billion seconds in 2024, no? Oh shit wait what if he meant to say "The Korean War" and just blew it - has he spent the last 39 years up late at night, kicking himself for bungling his big moment? The one maybe he spent all summer working on/getting more & more psyched about every day? 🤔🤷
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