Science Challenge #5 "THE STUMPER!" If it takes about eleven and a half days for one million seconds to tick away, will one billion (U.S.) seconds take close to one year, ten years, twenty years or thirty years? ANSWER: close to 30 years (one responder calculated the answer to eight decimal places ie 31.70979194, others went as far as one or two decimal places) Correct responses received from: Peter Hance, Jennifer LeBlanc, Jack C., Jason Coffer, Lars, Katie Sweigart, Sid Gospe, Jerome Rotch, Steve Liston