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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:13 PM
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A trillion dollars -- visually.
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 02:14 PM by Commie Pinko Dirtbag
You are the guy in red at the far left. Details at http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:16 PM
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1. nice.
I like the who article shows each level.

Kind funny that a million is so small. Barely fills a briefcase.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:18 PM
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3. The most shocking to me was that a Billion was so mundane-looking.
Hell, it fits in a fair-sized closet.
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architect359 Donating Member (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:18 PM
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2. Now that what we *talking* about!
I do like the way that they (at the pagetutor site) started out with a single 100$ bill for scale and build it up from there. So yeah. That's a lot.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:25 PM
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4. Compare this to the current cost of the Iraq war...
zFacts.com
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:02 PM
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5. Thank you.
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Belial Donating Member (503 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:03 PM
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6. KA CHING!
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