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...
(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.
Damn. Notice how big (||) the person is in the last picture.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
6 :: What A Trillion Dollars Looks Like ::
got damn!!!!
Who is a trillionaire? Please tell me? They need to help feed world hunger forreal? Is there a such thing...a trillion?
Wow....things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
Thats what I'm sayin. Look how minuscule "A Milli" looks.
I re-read everything and just got really saddened. I'm breakin my back to get that 10 stacks and it aint even sh*t in the grand scheme of things.
*Goes and buys a Kufi*
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUM!
NO ONE IS A TRILLIONAIRE YET!! I think forbes said Bill Gates was pretty close!
Here are some facts about a trillion dollars:
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If you were to spend a million dollars a day it would take you 2,737.8 years to spend it assuming you made no interest.
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At 5% interest you'd earn about $136,986,301.00 per day, $5,707,762.00 per hour, $95,129.00 per minute or $1,585 per second.
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According to Forbes in 2005 the 691 billionaires in the world are worth $2.2 trillion combined.
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On October 18 2005 the American National Debt surpassed $8 trillion.
Yea, well I noticed that said 05' and the national debt is 11 Trillion now so...
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 14 Mar 2009 at 03:45:27 AM GMT is:
$ 1 0 , 9 8 8 , 1 6 3 , 6 8 7 , 4 9 9 . 8 5
The estimated population of the United States is 305,810,982
so each citizen's share of this debt is $35,931.23.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.72 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned?
source
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/