Famous for 15 Minutes

[panache45]

If everyone in the world is famous for 15 minutes, what's the average number of famous people at any given time?

[Nukeman]

WHAT? were you drunk when you thought up that question? presumably, everyone would be famous at the same time for fifteen minuites.

[Scarlett67]

I thought this looked like a really stupid question at first -- until I realized that (1) a peson could actually calculate it, and (2) I'm really looking for an excuse to not work on what I'm working on. So, let's run my 2 minutes' worth of math up the pole and see who salutes:

Let's say the average person lives 70 years. That's

70 x 365 x 24 x 4 = 2,452,800 15-minute slots per lifetime.

6 billion lives (at last count) are being lived on the planet. That gives us

6 billion divided by 2,452,800 = 2446 famous people at any given moment.

Howzat?

[manhattan]

Originally posted by Scarlett67


Howzat?

Not bad, but not good enough to keep this an active GQ thread.

Closing this thread.