One Trillion
03-09-2009, 06:12 AM
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One Trillion
I've heard that number a lot recently. It is not a concept, I think, that is easily digested. Can you translate this number to common experience?
The distance from ANC to SDF is roughly 5,000 KM. That equates to 5 Million meters and then, 5 Billion millimeters. If you gave away $1/millimeter you'd have to fly this leg 200 times to get to 1 Trillion dollars.
That same distance is roughly 3,000 miles. If you gave away 1 Million dollars/mile you'd have to fly this leg 333 times to get to $1 trillion.
WW
The distance from ANC to SDF is roughly 5,000 KM. That equates to 5 Million meters and then, 5 Billion millimeters. If you gave away $1/millimeter you'd have to fly this leg 200 times to get to 1 Trillion dollars.
That same distance is roughly 3,000 miles. If you gave away 1 Million dollars/mile you'd have to fly this leg 333 times to get to $1 trillion.
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03-09-2009, 06:21 AM
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Just How Much Is a Trillion?
• One trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 -- 10 to the 12th power, or a
thousand thousand thousand thousand.
• One trillion dollars would be enough to buy about a thousand boxes
of Girl Scout cookies for every person in the United States.
• A trillion barrels of oil would (at current consumption levels) fuel the
world for about 33 years.
• The country has not existed for a trillion seconds
• Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
• One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the
plains of Europe.
• 1,000 Thousands equals 1 Million (1,000,000); 1,000 Millions equals
1 Billion (1,000,000,000); and 1,000 Billions equals 1 Trillion
(1,000,000,000,000)
• A million dollars a day for 2 thousand years is only three quarters of a
trillion dollars.
• A million seconds is 11 ½ days, a billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion
seconds is 32 thousand years.
• One trillion one dollar bills stacked high would reach nearly 68
thousand miles into space, one third of the way to the moon.
• If you travel around the world at the equator 40 million times, you
would travel one trillion miles.
• Roughly 500,000 gallons fall over both sides of Niagara Falls each
second. One trillion gallons would equal the amount of water that falls
in a little over three weeks.
• One trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 -- 10 to the 12th power, or a
thousand thousand thousand thousand.
• One trillion dollars would be enough to buy about a thousand boxes
of Girl Scout cookies for every person in the United States.
• A trillion barrels of oil would (at current consumption levels) fuel the
world for about 33 years.
• The country has not existed for a trillion seconds
• Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds.
• One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the
plains of Europe.
• 1,000 Thousands equals 1 Million (1,000,000); 1,000 Millions equals
1 Billion (1,000,000,000); and 1,000 Billions equals 1 Trillion
(1,000,000,000,000)
• A million dollars a day for 2 thousand years is only three quarters of a
trillion dollars.
• A million seconds is 11 ½ days, a billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion
seconds is 32 thousand years.
• One trillion one dollar bills stacked high would reach nearly 68
thousand miles into space, one third of the way to the moon.
• If you travel around the world at the equator 40 million times, you
would travel one trillion miles.
• Roughly 500,000 gallons fall over both sides of Niagara Falls each
second. One trillion gallons would equal the amount of water that falls
in a little over three weeks.
03-09-2009, 09:01 AM
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one trillion is about 3300 times the population of the US
The current US national debt $11 trillion or about $36,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country
In the time it took you to read the previous two sentences, the US debt increased roughly $1 billion
The current US national debt $11 trillion or about $36,000 for every man, woman, and child in the country
In the time it took you to read the previous two sentences, the US debt increased roughly $1 billion
03-09-2009, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by skidmark
"Hope and Change" Our countrymen sold us out for a slogan.
If you place a trillion dollars into a rathole, do you still have to pay interest on it?
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