Sorry,

Just doing some math here, and 1 billion seconds ago (1,000,000,000) takes us back to 1975.

1,000,000,000 seconds =
16,666,666 minutes =
277,777 hours =
11,574 days =
31.7 years

Sorry, don't mean to be rude, but just doing math in my head at work and 1959 just didn't add up.

Kris
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