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What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html ^ | 12-14-09

Posted on 12/14/2009 2:03:46 PM PST by Indy Pendance

Edited on 12/14/2009 2:31:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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...

Notice those pallets are double stacked. ...and remember those are $100 bills.


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We toss out a trillion like it's everyday lingo. I hope this helps.
1 posted on 12/14/2009 2:03:46 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

In the movie “The Taking of Pelham 123”, $10 million in $100 bills weighed 220 lbs.


2 posted on 12/14/2009 2:07:54 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Indy Pendance

This won’t be a problem when the Fed has to start circulating $1 million bank notes in order to buy a loaf of bread.


3 posted on 12/14/2009 2:09:02 PM PST by littleharbour
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To: wolfcreek

I’d gladly be responsible for that weight!


4 posted on 12/14/2009 2:11:58 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Conservatives: we are their worst nightmare)
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To: Indy Pendance

5 posted on 12/14/2009 2:13:39 PM PST by MarkeyD (I support the Secret Service but not their mission.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Give everyone you see there about 8.77 million dollars each as they walk out the gate would be about a trillion dollars.


6 posted on 12/14/2009 2:13:53 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Indy Pendance

It’s all just numbers on paper to politicians. They no longer have any concept of just what they are actually playing with.


7 posted on 12/14/2009 2:14:53 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
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To: Indy Pendance

The best representation I’ve seen. It’s a lot clearer than “Would go around the Earth X times.”


8 posted on 12/14/2009 2:15:24 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Indy Pendance
Can you break this?


9 posted on 12/14/2009 2:15:31 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Indy Pendance

Here is another way to conceptualize a trillion dollars:

A trillion one dollar bills weighs 1,102,188 TONS.

An inch of rainfall on one acre weighs 113.31 TONS.

As federal/state/local governments spend our money like water they would need 9,727.19 inches of rain over an acre ...

Or, a massive acre aquarium that is 810.59 ft deep to weigh as much as a trillion one dollar bills.


Fact check stats:

One dollar bill weighs .03527 oz.

One inch rainfall weight/acre: http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/dickinso/research/2004/range04c.htm


10 posted on 12/14/2009 2:17:14 PM PST by taxcutisapayraise (Making Statism Unpopular)
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To: Indy Pendance

this is way out of date. We need one that shows $11 trillion.


11 posted on 12/14/2009 2:18:54 PM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: antiRepublicrat

The circumference of the earth is abstract for most of us. So, it’s meaningless. Pallets are much more realistic for everyday people. I thought this concept really hit home.

It’s hard to wrap your brain around a trillion dollars, but for me, this really helped.


12 posted on 12/14/2009 2:18:56 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Conservatives: we are their worst nightmare)
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To: Indy Pendance
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?



13 posted on 12/14/2009 2:23:04 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" - Job 13:15)
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To: MNDude

Just multiply that last pic by 11 or 22 or 55 or whatever latest number they conjure up. It’s mind blowing!

We’re in an economic revolution. Thank God, our family has survival skills. Going Galt has a relevant meaning more so than ever.


14 posted on 12/14/2009 2:24:05 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Conservatives: we are their worst nightmare)
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To: wolfcreek

So, if I’ve done my math correctly, one million $1 bills is quite literally a TON OF MONEY....

These pics would be even more impressive if they used $1 bills instead of $100...

That double stacked pallet farm of bills is only 10 billion bills.


15 posted on 12/14/2009 2:31:55 PM PST by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

For a laugh I ordered a set of them from a dealer on ebay. I got that one plus the 50 20 and 10 Trillion dollar notes. They almost feel fake but a fake would be worth about as much as the real thing so I am not exactly worried.


16 posted on 12/14/2009 2:32:45 PM PST by xp38
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To: MNDude

So here you go, the U.S. National Debt in $100 dollar bills...

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/pallet_x_10000_x_11.jpg


17 posted on 12/14/2009 2:34:01 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First
National debt:
18 posted on 12/14/2009 2:36:03 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Indy Pendance

A billion seconds ago was about 31 years, 1978.

The year 29,000 BC was close to a trillion seconds ago.


19 posted on 12/14/2009 2:36:33 PM PST by Jacquerie (It is only in the context of Natural Law that our Declaration & Constitution form a coherent whole.)
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To: Indy Pendance

I have heard it said that there has not been 1 Billion minutes since Christ walked the earth.


20 posted on 12/14/2009 2:39:02 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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