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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.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination
in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have
owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains
$10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week
or two of shamefully decadent fun.
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of
$10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a
little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...
And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...
Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number
we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars?
Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one
followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
Scroll down...
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
Notice those pallets are double stacked.
...and remember those are $100 bills.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the
phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.Last edited by george graves; 03-27-2010, 01:51 PM.Originally posted by Matt-BComment
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.me sideways
Ich gehöre nicht zur Baader-Meinhof Gruppe
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Every time you buy a car with DSC/ESC, Jesus kills a baby seal. With a kitten.
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Suck me sideways, thats a lot of moola.'91 Brilliantrot 318iS - Sold
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Local newspaper calculated how many miles high a stack of those 100's would be to make a trillion. Let's just say you should pack an oxygen tank to be at the top.sigpic
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Ich gehöre nicht zur Baader-Meinhof Gruppe
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Every time you buy a car with DSC/ESC, Jesus kills a baby seal. With a kitten.
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Those made me LOL.1985 M10b18. 70maybewhpoffury. Over engineered S50b30 murica BBQ swap in progress.
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Ich gehöre nicht zur Baader-Meinhof Gruppe
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Every time you buy a car with DSC/ESC, Jesus kills a baby seal. With a kitten.
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lmfao holy shit that last one.
"Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed."
John F. Kennedy
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