Milestones Archives - Windypundit Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:19:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://staging.windypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/wpicon-16.png Milestones Archives - Windypundit 32 32 300000000 https://staging.windypundit.com/2006/10/300000000/ https://staging.windypundit.com/2006/10/300000000/#respond Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:19:50 +0000 https://staging.windypundit.com/?p=579 In case you missed it, in some maternity ward in the United States, at some time today (probably) the baby was born that pushed the country’s population up to the 300 million mark. In scientific notation, that’s 3×108 To give you an idea just how many people that is, imagine that this dot is 1 […]

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]]> In case you missed it, in some maternity ward in the United States, at some time today (probably) the baby was born that pushed the country’s population up to the 300 million mark. In scientific notation, that’s 3×108

To give you an idea just how many people that is, imagine that this dot is 1 person:

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Now imagine 300 million dots just like it. Whoa! Really puts it in perspective, doesn’t it?

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This post by Mark Draughn at Windypundit was originally published at 300000000

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