Posted on 12/01/2008 9:15:06 AM PST by An American!
Have you ever wondered how big a Billion is? What about 700 billion????
So I started of my research with how big is a $100 dollar bill (the largest denomination available)? US currency bills are are 2.61 inches wide and 6.14 inches long; they are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram. This gives it an approximate volume of 0.06890922 cubic inches.
Next, lets see what a Million Dollars looks like. We all think we have seen this in the movies. Someone shows up with a brief case full of money purportedly worth $1,000,000.00. A quick search turned up this MEZZI STEELX Aluminum-Style Briefcase. Interior dimensions are 16.3 x 11.1 x 3.1 in with a resulting volume of 560 cubic inches. Some quick math shows that $100 * 10,000 = $1 million. Thus 0.06890922 * 10,000 = 689 cubic inches. So it won't fit. But if we used every cubic inch we could squeeze $813,900 into the brief case. By the way, that million would be Heavy too...10000 grams or 22 pounds.
Ok...so that was interesting. What would it look like if we just stacked up 10,000 hundred dollar bills in a single stack? It would be 43 inches high!!!!
BUT WAIT...What would a BILLION look like?
First how much is a Billion...it is a thousand million. Ok some more quick math shows that 43 inches * 1000 is only 43,000 inches high. Which is 3,583 feet or 2/3 of a mile high. Remember that 1 gram = 0.00220462262 pounds, so 1 billion dollars would weigh 22,046 pounds or 11 tons. hmmm...I am still struggling to visualize it. Obviously it is big, but would it fit in my house in my home office? So my home office measures 9 feet by 10 feet with a 8 foot ceiling. That works out to 720 cubic feet. A billion dollars with absolutely zero packing space would take up almost 400 cubic feet. So figuring in the base board, sloppy packing and not perfectly square walls, it would probably fill my office up to above the door...hmmm...how do I get out or in?
So how big is the bailout? Well if you stacked up $100 dollar bills it would be over 475 miles high!!! It would weigh over 7700 tons and if stacked in convenient piles of $1,000,000 each would result in a matrix of 700 piles by 1000 piles...each pile 43 inches tall. Again with zero packing space would take up 152 feet * 512 feet. Basically it would fill all the area of an NFL stadium, bleacher to bleacher, end to end 4 feet high full of tightly packed $100 dollar bills.
Hopefully I did not make too many errors in my math :)
One Million seconds ago = November 18th 2008
One Bilion seconds ago = 1977
One Trillion seconds ago = 29,000 B.C.
Thanks Bush!
Um... it’s big enough for me, anyway. Heck, I’ll take 1/10th of one percent.
I think you may need a bigger home office; perhaps 11,000 of them. Allegedly, we’re up to $7.5+ trillion.
It’s hugh and series, Mr An, if that’s your real name!
We’re up to about $4T if you include all the various Fed / Tres actions, IIRC.
For now and will soon explode to about $ 5 Trillion. And Paulson lied to Congress. Bernanke lied to Congress. Corrupt profession liars lying to other corrupt professional liars. The whole thing was a scam form the get go. Americans are forced to bail out the criminals that caused the problem. Why ____ ?
Congress must earn their bribe money. 'Nuff said.
Anytime you hear anyone trying to sell you something that “must be done RIGHT AWAY” you know they’re full of it.
Over $7 trillion so far.
The only thing that ‘must be done right away’ is CPR (not symbolic either).. everything else in life can wait.
Yep. $7.7 trillion and counting.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=arEE1iClqDrk&refer=home
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html
Here is someone who showed how big a million is...with cool pictures! His briefcase (5 inch variety) held the million.
Quadrupally so if it’s a politician.
No need to count the bailout money, just ship a few tons here and there. Call it Payouts with a Payloader.
It’s 28 times as large as the amount refused to bail out the auto makers.
It’s 28 times as much that is now gone in a cloud of smoke and mirrors to bail out mullti-millionaires who have walked off with outrageous salaries and bonuses year after year while driving their companies into the ground.
Down We Go Again: Fourth-Worst Drop Ever for Dow [680 points!]
Oh, well. Nothing to see here. Time to move on.
>>Over $7 trillion so far.<<
How many weeks did it take “our” leaders to borrow that much? At that rate, the federal gov. would blow at least 50 trillion in 2009.
And let’s give it to the same people who blew the money they were entrusted with. Obama just promised to “help” the states that are going broke.
Nobody is concerned about inflation now?
Since many currencies are collapsing at the same time, no one is thinking about inflation. I sure am, however.
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