This Web site says “There Are A Billion Arguments Out There….”
I Disagree. I don’t believe there are a Billion Arguments. It takes 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds to count to a Billion. And that’s just counting. I doubt someone has already spent nearly 32 years to list all the number of arguments that could be had. Even if they did, it would most certainly take more than 32 years because, you know, you probably need to sleep, eat and poop at some point during that time.
Disagree. Given that man has been capable of reasoned debate for at least 5,000 years, and there are currently 7 billion people on the planet that seem to love nothing more than being disagreeable, I can easily see a path to 32 years worth of different debates. It’s a drop in the bucket.
Just look at baseball. There are probably thousands of arguments about the best player at every position, the best game ever played, best specific kind of game (no hitter, perfect game, day game, night game, world series game, etc). That doesn’t even include all the scandals, who might have been involved in them, etc.
Now multiply that times the number of potential arguments in other fields from science to religion to entertainment, and you easily clear a billion.
Well, come to think of it…maybe you are right:
According to the World Sports Encyclopedia (2003) there are 7,999* indigenous sports and sporting games. You could have an argument whether each team was Good or Bad. That’s 15998 arguments right there.
*There are actually 8,000 sports teams, but I’m not including those teams that cheat, like the New England Patriots.**
Second, the SVGA video standard supports a palette of 16 million colors. So, there is an argument FOR and AGAINST whether each color is “pretty.” Add another 32 million arguments.
Finally, well, as Carl Sagan once said, there are “100 Billion Galaxies each with 100 Billion Stars.” You could have an argument FOR or AGAINST what to name each star. Add another uh…well, a lot more.
Good job on creating this site. I wish you best of luck.
**Tom Brady did deflate that football. With the Revolver. In the Study.
Oh give me a break. Could there be a bigger number than a billion? It doesn’t seem possible. And yet, one supposes that infinity time infinity could be…? Still, that would be a lot of arguments, I must say. But even a billion minus infinity would be a fair number of arguments, in a negative sort of away. So I suppose you’d have to agree that numbers and arguments are perhaps not the best things to combine, if you want to avoid getting just the slightest bit of a headache.
Billions of arguments or infinite number of them…with so many people on the planet and things to argue about, gotta be. That said no one should try to count them all. I mean you could if you wanted but that’s a futile impossible project. Better things to do.
Given a world population of 7 billion, of course there are more than 1 billion arguments out there. But if they all logged in here at once, the site might take a bit of a performance hit.
Yes there are. We just haven’t gotten there yet.
That makes no sense. You’ve literally just contradicted yourself.
“Yes they are” suggests you believe there is 1 billion arguements
“We just haven’t gotten there yet” suggests there isn’t 1 billion arguements
