2009 Momentum - Glashütte Original

Sources: brand eins, extrawissen.de, faz.net, interessante-fakten.de, René Ammann
Moments in Time Facts & figures
48 Momentum 1· 2009
Did you know that a mouse’s heart beats at a rate of around 700 bpm?
The US supercomputer Roadrunner is the fastest computer in the world. It can perform more than
1,000 trillion calculations a second. It would take around 120,000 standard laptops
to match its computing power.
The average citizen of Mexico City spends 150 minutes a day commuting to and from work.
Camels can store so much fat in their humps that they can go without food for up to 30 days.
Their digestive tracts can hold up to 150 litres of water and they can drink ten litres of water in just one minute.
In the year 1800 only two percent of the world’s population lived in towns and cities.
By 2007 the figure had risen to 51 percent.
A blink of the human eye lasts
around 100 milliseconds.
It is estimated that 90 percent of the
approximately 6,000 languages spoken around the world today
will be extinct 100 years from now.
During the 2002 census in Australia, 70,000 people entered “Jedi” as their religion.
It would take a vehicle travelling at 160 km/h 29 million years to reach the star closest to Earth.
Rebuilding the Great Pyramid of Giza using today’s modern technology would still take at least eight years.
However, the job would only require 68 workers, whereas the original relied on the labour of 6,700.
By curbing aircraft speeds and lengthening flight times by just a few minutes, US airline Southwest hopes to be able
to save $42 million this year.