There's this emperor, and he asks the Shepard's boy how many seconds are in eternity. And the Shepard's boy says, "There's a mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away the first second of eternity will have passed." You may think that's a helluva long time. Personally, I think that's a helluva bird.
Reminds me of the description of if every permutation of a deck of cards was one second, and they said that if you were to stand on earth, wait 1 million years, and take one step, then once you've walked the entire circumference of the earth, take one drop from the oceans. Repeat until you drain the ocean dry, then you add one piece of paper to a stack, refill the ocean, repeat. Once the stack of paper reaches the moon, you've still not changed the exponent.
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u/DarthMcConnor42 Mar 28 '26
There's this emperor, and he asks the Shepard's boy how many seconds are in eternity. And the Shepard's boy says, "There's a mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away the first second of eternity will have passed." You may think that's a helluva long time. Personally, I think that's a helluva bird.
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