Time Takes Too Long

Nobody Flashes Anymore: It seems lately, the world has been speeding up so much that according to NASA we are coming into a "cooling" period, so global warming is just going to have to wait a few years...

Also, many people have been seeing spaceships, more so than usual. Here we see a alien who swears John McCain is his kid by a wonderful woman he met in Sweden around the turn of the century...

It's been one of those weeks: so just for fun, I thought I'd give you a few things to think about, pertaining to time...excerpts from the book "Durations" by Stuart A. Sandow.

1-It took 4 hours for the Titanic to sink.

2-1 year to build a Steinway piano

3-.000000004 of a second for the subatomic particle k-meson to form, travel, and disintegrate within an atomic nucleus.

4-1 second for a star to die and disappear (minimum time)

5-12 seconds to land a commercial airliner, landing 200 feet in the air, 3,000 feet from the end of a runway

6-19 hours for the Earth to turn 285 degrees on its axis.

7-25 days for Handel to compose "The Messiah"

8-50 years to replace a forest destroyed by fire.

9-10,000 years between ice ages

10-15 minutes for a stripper to burn 36 calories

And last but not least: It takes ten billion years before the Earth is no longer able to support life due to the impending death of the Sun.

For some of us having to sit through the Obama-vs Hillary Presidential debate...that's not soon enough.