Mole day, come and gone. . .but still worth celebrating

It is that time of year again. Time to celebrate National Mole Day!  Mole day officially arrives at 6:02 am on October 23rd, but I will likely still be sleeping when the clock strikes 6:02, but then again it will be mole day all day long!  Read on below to find out some interesting facts about the mole.

A mole is similar to the concept of a dozen.  A dozen, of course, means any collection of 12 things.  Similarly, a mole is any collection of 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 things.  This is a fantastically large number, so much so in fact that it is hard for us to comprehend how large it is.  The following should help provide a useful context:

If you had a mole of dollars, then you could spend $19,089,294.77 a second, every second, for the next billion years before you ran out.

If you lived for 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds you would be 19,089,294,770,000,000 years old.  True, it is not immortality, but perhaps a close second.  If you do live that long, hopefully you won't age accordingly, otherwise you would be like living dust.

Let's see if you understand the mole any better.  Which of the following quantities of water would contain approximately a mole of water molecules?
A)  All the water in all of the oceans combined
B) All the water in all of the great lakes combined
C) An olympic swimming pool full of water
D) A gallon of water
E) A shot glass of water
F) A dew drop of water
G) None of these, all of the water on the planet added together is less than a mole

NOTE: This post was originally written on 21 October, but then computer glitches happened (the ol' fabled curse of the mole?) and iI was not able to publish it again until (sadly) today, a day after mole day.  Apologies to all of my 1 follower out there!