The math part is easy

1. "The sun hurls 1 million tons of matter out into space
every second."
From http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/sun_earth6.html,
University of Michigan; ©2002.

2. "The Sun converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into
helium every second."
From http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/factfile/factfile101_120.asp,
Firstsciene.com ©2002.

3. "Two people die every second."
From http://www.youdraw.com/morepop/pop.html, Youdraw ©
Louis Paschoud. [The consensus is closer to 1.8 people]


-That means 1000 people die every 9 minutes and 20 seconds.