Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a Software Engineer, formerly employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.[1]

Ben Goodger
Born
London, England
NationalityBritish New Zealander
OccupationGoogle Chrome developer
WebsiteBen Goodger

Goodger grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in May 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering.[2] He now lives in Los Altos Hills, California and is currently working for Google Inc., where he leads user experience for the Google Chrome project.[3]

Footnotes
  1. Fisher, Ken (24 January 2005). "Google hires Firefox lead developer". Ars Technica. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  2. Gifford, Adam (9 February 2005). "Free door to software world". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  3. "A Kiwi living the dream working for Google in Silicon Valley". Seven Sharp. New Zealand: TVNZ. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
gollark: Well, you can, or also "it would have about the same mass as the atmosphere".
gollark: Wikipedia says that spider silk has a diameter of "2.5–4 μm", which I approximated to 3μm for convenience, so a strand has a 1.5μm radius. That means that its cross-sectional area (if we assume this long thing of spider silk is a cylinder) is (1.5e-6)², or ~7e-12. Wikipedia also says its density is about 1.3g/cm³, which is 1300kg/m³, and that the observable universe has a diameter of 93 billion light-years (8.8e26 meters). So multiply the length of the strand (the observable universe's diameter) by the density of spider silk by the cross-sectional area of the strand and you get 8e18 kg, while the atmosphere's mass is about 5e18 kg, so close enough really.
gollark: Okay, so by mass it actually seems roughly correct.
gollark: So, spider silk comes in *very* thin strands and is somewhat denser than water, interesting.
gollark: You do that, I'll try and find data on spider silk density.


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