To appreciate such a number, we should remember that a quintillion is to a billion what a billion is to one, in other words, there are as many billions in a quintillion as ones in a billion! Now then, this liquid mass nearly equals the total amount of water that has poured through all the earth's rivers for the past 40,000 years!
De massa water wordt geschat op eene hoeveelheid, gelijk aan het water dat alle rivieren der aarde gedurende 40,000 jaar zouden uitstorten.