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Things You Thought You Knew – Billionaires in Space

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The Challenge of Exponential Thinking

We have hardly any experience thinking exponentially about the world. In astrophysics, we go from one to 10 to 100 to a thousand to 10,000. But if you're just counting one, two, three, four, five, five is only five times bigger than one. So many things that range in size are very hard for the human brain to comprehend.

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