Y'know, a googol is a really huge number. I mean un-imaginably, freakishly superbig

I knew this of course, but I didn't truly appreciate it until I started plugging numbers into google calculator to try to get an idea of it.

Turns out... 1 googol of nanometers (a millionth of a millimeter) is equal to roughly 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lightyears.

That's about 1.28205128 × 1064 times the current estimated size of the universe.

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And then there's a googolplex.
Ten to the power of googol.

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Did you just realize this?

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Heh, you used googol in google.

Kind of like... well nothing else I guess.

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Yet you can hold it all in the palm of your hand, and infinity in an hour.

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I said to God, "What's eternity to you?"
And God said "A minute."

I said to God "What's a million dollars to you?"
And God said, "A penny."

I said to God, "Can I have a penny?"
And God said, "Sure ... in a minute."

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So after you waited around for 60 seconds, did you tap your watch and say "Hey, what's the hold up, asshole?"