RE: Tanzanian MP says Ruvuma may hold 100 TCF of gas5 Feb 2026 14:19
Mind blown.
I have posted this before but in terms of how big ONE trillion is as a number, see below:
Okay, this is my favorite way to explain big numbers because it makes them *hurt your brain* in a good way 😄
Let’s pretend **1 unit = 1 second**.
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### 🕐 1 million seconds
**≈ 11.5 days**
So if you started counting seconds…
* You’d be done in **less than two weeks**
* Basically a long vacation
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### 🕰️ 1 billion seconds
**≈ 31.7 years**
Now we’re talking:
* That’s **from birth to full-grown adult**
* If you started counting at age 0, you’d finish in your early 30s
Already a *huge* jump from a million.
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### 🗓️ 1 trillion seconds
**≈ 31,700 years**
Yep.
* Longer than **all of recorded human history**
* Humans were still in the Stone Age
* Mammoths were *recently* gone
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### 🤯 The takeaway
Each step isn’t “a bit bigger” — it’s **1,000× bigger**:
* Million → days
* Billion → decades
* Trillion → tens of thousands of years
That’s why when people casually say “a trillion,” they’re talking about a number that’s **almost impossible to intuit**.