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We’re constantly asking “where does all the time go?” Earlier this week the world gained some insight into answering this chronological quandary. With Angry Birds surpassing the 500,000,000th (that’s like… half a BILLION, bro) download benchmark, it’s apparent that a significant chunk of collective man, woman, and child hours are dedicated to the high-flying pig-destroying exploits of Angry Birds.  Rovio announced this milestone on Wednesday, and revealed some other telling statistics at the same time.

So what exactly does half-a-billion downloads mean? Let’s parse the numbers. According to Rovia:

• Collectively, we’ve played over 200,000 years of Angry Birds.
• 300 million minutes are spent each day on the game.
• 400 billion birds have been launched into the stratosphere on their mission to knock green pigs off their pedestals.

Now, lets put things in perspective. According to me:

• Anatomically modern humans first appeared in the fossil record in Africa approximately 200,000 years ago.
• In 300 million minutes you could walk (at an average clip of 5mph) from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Golden Gate… over 8,300 times.
• If you had a penny for every one of the 400 billion birds that have been flung, you’d have collected $400M in your green-pig piggy bank (which would weigh 220 million lbs, give or take a hundred-thousand lbs or so).

Time is a scarce resource these days. Put down the phone/tablet/mouse and do your part to help solve the world’s time-scarcity problem.