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> Besides, if you had to eat a billion gallons of it, but over a billion years

That is changing the analogy. The billion years of life would be experienced every waking minute of every day.

TeMPOraL on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

Why? You won't be experiencing a billion years a minute, you'll be experiencing a minute a minute.

tasty_freeze on Oct 28, 2020 | [–]

Here is the difference. If I eat one gallon of ice cream per year, that is 0.1% of my life eating ice cream, whereas I spend 67% of my time experience my life (assuming 8 hrs sleep per day).

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