Posted on 04/04/2011 5:29:30 PM PDT by righttackle44
I have had a difficult time wrapping the concept of one trillion around my head. Comparisons to stuff in warehouses and football fields and all just didn't do it for me. But last night, Chuck Missler finally stated a comparison I can fathom.
He put it in terms of seconds. One million seconds is four days. One billion seconds is 32 years. One trillion seconds is 32,000 years.
Think how much money Obama and his Democrats have heaped on us, in these terms.
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Error: One million seconds is 11.57 days. (1,000,000 sec / 86400 sec / day = 11.57 days).
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If you would like to visualize what a trillion $’s looks like, go here http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html to see!
This next image http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/usdebt.html is what our debt looks like as of March 2009, you can add a few more rows to the pile since then...
Trillion = A Million Million...
Trillion = A Million Million...
Correction 1,000,000,000,000 seconds (one trillion seconds) = 16,666,666,667 minutes = 277,777,778 hours = 11,574,074 days = 31,710 years
To be more precise you want to do as little rounding as possible until your final step, yielding:
One Trillion Seconds =
1,000,000,000,000 [seconds] =
1,000,000,000,000 / 60 [minutes] =
1,000,000,000,000 / 3,600 [hours] =
1,000,000,000,000 / 86,400 [days] =
1,000,000,000,000 / 31,556,736 [years*] =
31688.955410344086283194814571444 [years] =
~31,689 years
* A year being 365.24 days.
This is the best way I've found to explain a trillion. Most folks have a sense of what a million is ... and they appreciate that it's very big. So when you say a trillion is one million millions, well ...
Good comparison.
A trillion is a million squared. It's a THOUSAND THOUSAND THOUSAND THOUSANDS!.
1 trillion dollars is 10 billion $100 bills or 10 thousand million $100 bills. At one gram per bill, this money would weigh 11,000 tons. A fully-loaded 747 weighs about 367 tons; that's more than 29 fully loaded 747's. One trillion dollars in 100's would weigh more than 29 747's.
A $100 is about 16 square inches. One trillion in $100's would cover almost 40 square miles.
A $100 bill is 6.14 inches in length. 10 billion $100 bills laid end-to-end would stretch for more than 969,000 miles. That's about two round-trips to the moon. It would take light 5.2 seconds to travel that distance!
A $100 bill is 0.0043" thick. 10 billion $100 bills stacked on top of one another would be more than 678 miles or the height of more than 123 Mt. Everests.
It STILL hard to fathom how big a trillion is.
Yup,
Sorry about the ‘time math incorrect’ comment
spoke before I calculated.
So much for quick math in my head.
Good initial post. My bad.
Your comparisons are interesting. But I’m like you. Numbers of that size should only be used in measuring universal distances. Thanks for your insights.
Thank you. Missler is wrong on the first. Good job.
This should be of interest. The US dollar is backed by nothing at all. There is no debt, other than the debt we all agree to have.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/currency7.htm
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