{"id":496,"date":"2005-11-09T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:46","slug":"email_the_planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/11\/09\/email_the_planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Email the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>One of the pieces of junk email I received recently had a subject line of Email the Planet. I don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s what I figured out:<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>6,000,000,000<\/td>\n<td># of people on earth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>350<\/td>\n<td>messages sent per hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17,142,857<\/td>\n<td># of hours needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>714,286<\/td>\n<td># of days needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1,957<\/td>\n<td># of years needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll spend the time or money ($349) to find out&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pieces of junk email I received recently had a subject line of Email the Planet. I don&#8217;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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}