One of the pieces of junk email I received recently had a subject line of Email the Planet. I don’t know if the planet Earth has an email address, and I can email her (or him?) or if someone has collected an email address for every person on the planet.
Chris joked that since I can only email about 350 messages an hour on my shared hosting package, it would take a long time to send to everyone. Here’s what I figured out:
6,000,000,000 | # of people on earth |
350 | messages sent per hour |
17,142,857 | # of hours needed |
714,286 | # of days needed |
1,957 | # of years needed |
I don’t think I’ll spend the time or money ($349) to find out…