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zimpenfishtoday at 6:31 AM1 replyview on HN

For some context, a billion years at a 20 minute breeding cycle is 26.3 trillion generations.


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ur-whaletoday at 7:39 AM

> For some context, a billion years at a 20 minute breeding cycle is 26.3 trillion generations.

Which if you want an actual feel for the true scale of things, must be multiplied by (order of magnitude) the number of bacteriums on the planet.

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