What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like?

FishHunt

FishHunt

Well-Known Member
Joined
Mar 21, 2005
Location
Franklinville, NC
Copied from Carolina Shooters:

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 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.


awww.pagetutor.com_trillion_bill.jpg




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.


awww.pagetutor.com_trillion_packet.jpg



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.


awww.pagetutor.com_trillion_pile.jpg



While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...


awww.pagetutor.com_trillion_pallet.jpg



And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...


awww.pagetutor.com_trillion_pallet_x_10.jpg



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...

























awww.pagetutor.com_trillion_pallet_x_10000.jpg












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.

A little more food for thought

If you spent 1 million dollars a day everyday from the day that Jesus was born through the end of Obama's first term which ends in 2012, You still would not have spent the sum of the Stimulus bill.

As a matter of fact if you would not spend that much money if you extended it out to 2016.

In order to actually spend one trillion dollars, you must part with over $570,776 every hour of every day for 200 years.


<><Fish
 
Interesting... And Google sketchup is a fun tool!! But spent a million since Jesus was born up until 2012? I dont beleive? But then again I suck at math!
 
y2kcrawler said:
Interesting... And Google sketchup is a fun tool!! But spent a million since Jesus was born up until 2012? I dont beleive? But then again I suck at math!
Click to expand...

OK here you go. Give or take the 500 or so Leap Years with an extra day you would only be adding $500 million to the numbers below.

2012 years x 365 = 734,380 days

734,380 days x the 1 million dollars = $73,438,000,000

$73,438,000,000 is a lot less than $1,000,000,000,000

<><Fish
 
This is what 'only' $315,000,000,000 looks like in one dollar bills. That is a person and a car at the bottom of the stack.
image013.jpg
 
yes i believe i could get ride of a couple billion right now
hell you could prolly buy zimbabway(sp) for a cool billion
haha
 
BigRedB2 said:
i wouldnt buy zimbabwe......
Utah on the other hand.....
Click to expand...

Who the F would want Utah? You'd have to find something to do w/ all those mormons... :beer:

South Dakota on the other hand - nobody would miss.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Who the F would want Utah? You'd have to find something to do w/ all those mormons... :beer:
South Dakota on the other hand - nobody would miss.
Click to expand...


Bueller?

Moab?
nc4x4?
hello
 
I wrote this for a class at the college, kind of puts things in perspective as well:

How much is a Trillion?

Start right now and count to a trillion. Don’t worry. You will be done by the year 33,711, provided you do not stop. That’s right, according to mathcentral.com it would take 31,709.79 years to count to a trillion.

To give you more of an idea of just how much a trillion is, the best way is to put it into perspective with other large numbers that may you be a little more familiar with. To put these numbers into perspective we will break them down into seconds using some statistics from digg.com. First we will start at a million, everybody has a good grasp of that number, right? Did you know that it takes 12 days for that clock on the wall to tick off a million seconds? That seems to be a fairly large number.

Now take that same clock and give it the task of counting down a billion seconds. As that clock ticks off those seconds on its way to a billion the world will watch that big glittery ball in times square take New Year plunge 31 times. That’s right, a billion seconds fills the span of 31 years. Now we are getting somewhere.

Now let us move onto a trillion. Let us say theoretically that same clock just got done ticking off a trillion seconds. According to historyworld.net that clock would have taken quite a journey. It would have started off about 1,680-something years before the last ice age, been frozen for the next 20,000 years and then been around to watch the Native Americans migrate from the southern parts of South America and Asia. This clock would have seen the discovery of our great land in 1492 and watched the birth of these United States. In fact this clock would only now be finishing its task. I sure hope somebody kept up with those batteries, because I am sure that the 31,688 year journey was quite a trip for our poor friend, the clock.

So the next time you are watching the news or read the paper and somebody throws out the word “trillion”, you now know what that number really means.
 
... but a trillion bytes looks like this, fits in your hand

hitachihdd.jpg


and only costs about $100.
 
Assuming a $15T National Debt, that's $107,142 per working American.

Statistics more commonly refer to "per person", but most of them don't pay taxes.
 
Shawn said:
Assuming a $15T National Debt, that's $107,142 per working American.

Statistics more commonly refer to "per person", but most of them don't pay taxes.
Click to expand...

The only cure is to change the percentage of working people. Make everyone with disability do some sort of work. Let the gov't pay a percentage of their paycheck to the employer to compensate for thier disability.
 
We've lost 20M jobs in the last three years. They have gone away. Creating conditions that favor private-sector job creation would be useful, but doesn't solve the problem of government spending. Moreover, having the government subsidize job creation only makes the spending problem worse, not better.

It's not enough to "give" someone a "job". You need to create jobs in productive, non-government sectors. While there are clearly good reasons to have government jobs, those jobs are best understood as taking resources from the public to fund a greater public good (taxing the residents of a county in order to provide teachers and police, etc).
 
The answer is Ron Paul..... now how long before this goes to the garage, bet my clock can count the time:beer:
 
Back
Top