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Title: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: Blackhawk on March 12, 2009, 12:58:58 PM What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
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. (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic1.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. (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic2.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. (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic3.jpg) While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet... (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic4.jpg) And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere... (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic5.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... Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars... (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic6.jpg) (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. Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: ibcnunv on March 12, 2009, 01:15:27 PM Well with this stack and one well produced event at the theater I manage
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic3.jpg) I will go home with one of these!!! (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/xzel/Pic4.jpg) Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: Fenix on March 12, 2009, 01:20:29 PM JT thank you for putting it all in perspective. Thats alot of kablingy
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: Mike on March 12, 2009, 01:33:35 PM OBAMA just gave me a little extra in my check and I dont mind.
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: timot_one on March 12, 2009, 02:53:38 PM It's hard to fathom the size of what it looks like all stacked up like that when you just look at numbers in a bank account or see the 1 with 12 zeros after it.
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: v6sicksspeed on March 12, 2009, 03:13:54 PM do you think before Obama stimulates the economy with it, he'd throw it all in Uncle Scrooge's money bin for a while and let me go for a swim?
another fun fact - $1 million in benny's weighs 22lbs. Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: suleman_manji on March 12, 2009, 07:08:52 PM Quote from: "v6sicksspeed" do you think before Obama stimulates the economy with it, he'd throw it all in Uncle Scrooge's money bin for a while and let me go for a swim? another fun fact - $1 million in benny's weighs 22lbs. wtf are Benny's? Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: timot_one on March 12, 2009, 07:30:19 PM $100 bill = Benjamin's = benny's
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: timot_one on March 12, 2009, 07:30:33 PM $100 bill = Benjamin's = benny's
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: suleman_manji on March 12, 2009, 07:43:45 PM I thought that at first then was like What if he meant pennys!
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: cna on March 12, 2009, 10:29:52 PM i wounder what a trillion pennies would look like
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: suleman_manji on March 12, 2009, 11:06:29 PM like 10,000,000,000$
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: wtcii on March 13, 2009, 08:07:49 AM I guess I'll have to build a warehouse for all my money. Thats insane, you could spend a million and never know it.
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: v6sicksspeed on March 13, 2009, 11:00:26 AM a trillion in pennies would probably be enough to fill the Grand Canyon
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: rjp6262 on March 15, 2009, 06:48:03 PM epic. seriously think of the kind of building you would need to house one trillion on pallets lol
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: Blackhawk on March 15, 2009, 08:47:34 PM ^^^Square footage in the millions easy
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: K24power07 on March 16, 2009, 02:59:45 AM Good lord how would u spend it .......lmao lolz....
Title: Re: What one trillion dollars REALLY looks like... Post by: Latin2nr on April 07, 2009, 03:59:09 PM Holy shit JT that's fuckin' crazy bro.
Wouldn't mind having the third stack at least. |