Posted on 03/06/2009 10:41:54 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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 about so much. 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...
(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.
It would be easier to carry if it were $1,000 bills, trust me on that one.
$1.6 Million in $100 bills weighs 43 pounds.
$16 Million in $1,000 bills weighs 43 pounds.
See! Much easier to carry.
Excellent demonstration! Really puts it in perspective. To a politician it’s like pulling out the wallet and laying down a 5 though. We’re so screwed.
Very good! Now do it as a pile,,errrr,,, mountain of pennies!
Ask the Governor of New York.
Dennis Prager had a show recently where the concept of a trillion was translated to time.
How long is a trillion seconds?
Almost 32,000 years.
Where can I buy one of those tees?
That’s because IT’S NOT HIS MONEY!
There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Multiply that by 10.
That thing? It’s worthless now. I believe that they have come out with the Z$100 BILLION note.
>>It would be easier to carry if it were $1,000 bills, trust me on that one.
$1.6 Million in $100 bills weighs 43 pounds.
$16 Million in $1,000 bills weighs 43 pounds.
See! Much easier to carry.<<
Good, I’ll still be able to carry it to the store to buy bread.
When it gets that bad the Fed will break the $5,000 and $10,000 bills. Of course, they will be redesigned with The One’s face, but oh well.
$80 Million in $5,000 bills 43 pounds.
$160 Million in $10,000 bills 43 pounds.
Speak for yourself. I can imagine quite a lot. (-:
number of seconds in a year = 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 = 31,536,000
1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) divided by 31,536,000 = 31,709 (years)
Checks!
Money is information, sometimes represented by a gold analog, sometimes in decimals printed on paper, but mostly stored on disk drives. A trillion dollars in computer bits can be written as: $1110100011010100101001010001000000000000
Give a few years and that last graphic will be worth 100 dollars in todays dollars.
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