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« 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.





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.
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 01:15:27 PM »
Well with this stack and one well produced event at the theater I manage


I will go home with one of these!!!
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 01:20:29 PM »
JT thank you for putting it all in perspective. Thats alot of kablingy
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 01:33:35 PM »
OBAMA just gave me a little extra in my check and I dont mind.
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« Reply #4 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.
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« Reply #5 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.
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« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2009, 07:08:52 PM »
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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?
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2009, 07:30:19 PM »
$100 bill = Benjamin's = benny's
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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2009, 07:30:33 PM »
$100 bill = Benjamin's = benny's
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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2009, 07:43:45 PM »
I thought that at first then was like What if he meant pennys!
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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2009, 10:29:52 PM »
i wounder what a trillion pennies would look like
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« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2009, 11:06:29 PM »
like 10,000,000,000$
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« Reply #12 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.
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I guess he has money to burn.  I'd rather waste my money on parts that actually make my car faster, hookers, and drugs.  Fucking amateurs.   :Smiley
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« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2009, 11:00:26 AM »
a trillion in pennies would probably be enough to fill the Grand Canyon
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« Reply #14 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
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