And we don't have to drill very far to reach temperatures that far exceed what we would need to power the world thousands of times over for all of civilization.
Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.
From 1909 to 1999, consumption of soybean oil in the United States increased more than 1,000-fold per person; margarine consumption increased 12-fold, but consumption of butter and lard decreased by about four-fold each.
When it is fully up and running (by 2024, assuming no big delays) , the SKA will be more than 50 times more sensitive than any other radio telescope, and able to survey the sky thousands of times faster.
And I came away from the experience with a thousand times more confidence than I had when I came into it, and I carried that confidence with me every time I spoke publicly after that.
As Cropper has put it, if an atom were expanded to the size of a cathedral, the nucleus would be only about the size of a fly-but a fly many thousands of times heavier than the cathedral.
This resource is a thousand times smaller than data centres used by frontier labs, but neither Mr Weisser nor Mr Douillard see any reason why their approach would not scale.
A quick question for you: What's super-duper bright and hundreds or even thousands of times heavier than our entire solar system, yet it's so hard to find that it has yet to be directly seen?
The researchers believe that the explosion was a result of an enormous cloud of gas, possibly thousands of times larger than our Sun being swallowed up by a super massive black hole.