Understatement of the week

Sunspace · October 30, 2007, 6:50pm

From a BBC story dealing with a possible shortage of Internet addresses

(bolding mine)
Only decades? Maybe 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 new addresses wasn’t enough.

Lobsang · October 30, 2007, 6:51pm

I like to think that in a few years we’ll have collonised about ten thousand planets with the average population being about nine billion.

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