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Carl Sagan Day Coming Up

Category: Blogging
Posted on: December 15, 2007 1:58 PM, by Greg Laden

... In a mere five hundred and eighteen thousand Billion seconds. Or, to be less precise, on December 20th.

We learn this news from Tangled Up in Blue Guy, and you can learn more at Joel's Humanistic Blog.

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Actually, I think the latter is more precise, since "five hundred and eighteen thousand Billion seconds" appears to be off by 16,414,780.1 years (or so google tells me).

Posted by: CS | December 17, 2007 2:29 PM

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Actually, I got my information from Google as well, and it was accurate, but I wrote the post much earlier than it was published!

Posted by: Greg Laden | December 17, 2007 2:59 PM

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