Putting Things Into Perspective

To make a black hole out of Earth, we would have to squeeze it and everything on it into a marble..

If humans acted like lions, 10% of all human deaths would be murders, 100 times more than they are now.

Driving non-stop at 100Km/hr (60mi/hr), it would take 75 years to travel every road in the world. That is enough distance for 16 road trips around the sun.

Almost one million Earths can fit inside the sun.

Your phone has more processing power than what NASA had in 1969.

The DNA in your body can stretch to the moon and back 200,000 times.

If we stretch all the Slinkys ever made, they can go around Earth more than 10 times.

If we removed the empty space from the atoms, all humans that ever existed would fit inside an orange.

If the atom was the size of a football field, the nucleus would be a ball in the middle.

By the time you blink, light would have traveled once around Earth.

In your lifetime, you will walk halfway to the moon.

All the gold available in the world would fit inside a 10-story building.

If cars had the same profit margin as perfumes, a Toyota Yaris would sell at $200,000.

The Sun releases in one microsecond more energy than humans ever used

In one hour, Earth receives from the Sun as much energy as all human consumption for a year.

In your lifetime, you will eat the equivalent of 6 elephants.

If all pages of the internet were printed and stacked, they would stretch from New York to Sydney.


If humans reproduced at the same rate as rabbits, one year from now world population would be 1,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion)

If humans could smell like dogs, they would be able to tell where people around them have been in the last week in a single sniff.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The average person spends three to six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.