How many lives has a YouTube video consumed?

This type of number is just playing a trick on the brain. It doesn't mean anything more than Earth has a large population, but is expressed in units that remind people of their own mortality.

A lifetime is lived sequentially, but in parallel 3 "lifetimes" of seconds are experienced by the population of Earth every 1 second of wall clock [1]. And if my unit conversion isn't totally fucked, last night the world spent over 80,000 lifetimes asleep.

The world has a population large enough that the human brain doesn't comprehend the number on it's own. We need charts, graphs, and spreadsheets to even being to make 7.125 billion mean anything to our brains.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy+%2F+wor...

Disclaimer - the following was done manually, not the extension.

"PSY - GANGNAM STYLE" - 2,158,086,259 views, video length 4:13

4m13s = 4.217 minutes

4.217 minutes * 2,158,086,259 = 9,100,649,754 minutes ~9.1billion minutes

9.1billion minutes / 60 ~ 152million hours

152million hours / 24 ~ 2.5million days

2.5million days / 365 ~ 6,849 years

6.8 millenia of GANGNAM STYLE. Nice one humanity.

Oh yeah, that's 6,800 years / 68 (average life expectancy, sort of) = 100 human lives. 100 human lives have been..err..used.

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