The age of the Universe is about 13.7 +- .2 billion years (as of 2003 - igor :)

Universe is 156 Billion Light-years Wide!

We see the Sun as it was about 8 minutes ago - it takes that long for light to travel the distance

If the population growth and the increase in a consumption of electricity continue at the current rates, by 2600 the world population will be standing shoulder to shoulder and electricity use will make the Earth glow red hot. If you stacked all the new books being published next to each other you would have to move at 90 miles per hour just to keep up with the end of the line. …

Steven Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell

Did you know that the average cost per defect(software) is…

* $10,000.00 (HP) up to $140,000.00 (IBM) if found in the production
* $750.00 to $3,000.00 (SEI) if found in the integration/system test
* $64.00 if found in the requirements phase
(According to a Borland newsletter)

Yep!

Vancouver and Melbourne top city league

Vancouver's Wreck Beach (at UBC) is a third best nude beach in the World! :-)

World-wide quality of life survey

If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000

Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206)

There are US$ 100 Trillion estimated total world assets, including real estate http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest/orpailleur1103.html

Number of atoms in the visible universe, perhaps 10 in power of 79 to 10 in power of 81. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_number