BILLION

Billion is a number that is often used these days - usually in relation to money spent by the government. For example, the Feds just authorized another $162 billion to finance the Mideast operation for the next year or so. Billion is a hard quantity to get your arms around. Maybe this will help.

You know how long a second is. You know there are sixty of them in a minute. With a little figuring, you could come up with the fact that there are 3,600 of them in an hour. Well, try to guess how long it would take for ONE billion seconds to tick off.

Okay, what is your guess? No, no, you have to guess. I'm not going to just tell you.

Read backwards or get a mirror and put it up to the screen:
shtnom flah-eno dna thgie sraey eno-ytriht revo

Can you believe it???