What Happened 51 Years Ago on July 18th?

July 18, 1966: To help people comprehend how large a billion units really is, Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author & science communicator announced to the world that he had just turned 1 billion seconds old (he was born on November 9th in 1934. Note: The average person doesn’t comprehend what is a part per billion let alone a part per million. Do you know what is a billion miles from Planet Earth?

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