- A trillion seconds is the same as 30,000 years.
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- If you stacked one trillion 1 dollar bills end-to-end
longways, it would go to the moon (at its average distance from earth)
and back.. 400 TIMES..
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- What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
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- All this talk about "stimulus packages" and
"bailouts"...
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- A billion dollars...
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- A hundred billion dollars...
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- Eight hundred billion dollars...
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- One TRILLION dollars...
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- What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers
are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take <http://sketchup.google.com/>Google
Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly
a trillion dollars looks like.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive,
$100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard
pallet...
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- And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...
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- 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.
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- You ready for this?
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- It's pretty surprising.
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- Scroll down...
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- Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
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- Notice those pallets are double stacked. ...and
remember those are $100 bills.
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- So, the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase
"trillion dollars"
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- ... that's what they're talking about.
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