What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

[Twist_U_Up]

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http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

"All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like."

more here

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

[BuyingThyme]

1. Had Jesus walked a mile a day for a trillion days,

he would have walked a trillion miles!

[4lbs]

2. If you could travel a mile per second (5280 ft/sec) it would take you more than 31,500 years to

travel a trillion miles.

One mile per second = 3600 miles per hour

[Reedom]

3. One Trillion?

Are you paying attention?

1,000,000,000,000 > 9,000,000,000,000 you'll never see it don't worry be happy.

[vanlassie]

4. Don't Forget the L-Curve.....

http://www.lcurve.org/

[rateyes]

5. This is the year 2009. If from the year 1 until today someone gave

you a million dollars a day...that's 1 million dollars a day for 2009 years....you STILL would not have 1 trillion dollars.

[notesdev]

6. It looks like a smoking hole

where your money used to be

[buckshotdad1960]

7. PSSSSST

Hey, I don't know! But if you ever get a trillion and need someone to watch it for you!
Hello!

[Towlie]

8. It would be a pile of $100 bills, 678 miles high.

The thickness of a $100 bill (or any other size U.S. bill) is 0.0043 inches.

A trillion dollars would be ten billion (10,000,000,000) $100 bills.

A stack of 10,000,000,000 bills would be 43,000,000 inches high.

43,000,000 inches equals 3,583,333 feet, or 678 miles.

But that's nothing compared to the current National Debt. It now equals a pile of $100 bills high enough to equal 95% of the diameter of the Earth.



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