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...
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. $1,000,000,000,000
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
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Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
Notice those pallets are double stacked.
...and
remember those are $100 bills.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.
The field is 50 pallets x 100 pallets by 2 pallets high
The calculatinos show that our field of pallets is roughly 224ft x 432ft x 7ft high.
At 96,768 square feet, it's about 2.2 acres and well over the size of a football field.
* Step by step
calculations & dimensions are here for those
who may be interested.
Scroll down to see what the $11 TRILLON! national debt looked in March of 2009
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After seeing What does one TRILLION
dollars look like?, I've gotten quite a few requests to translate that
into the U.S.
National Debt, currently 11 trillion dollars as of March, 2009. $11,000,000,000,000
So here you go, the U.S. National Debt in $100 dollar bills...
Borrowed From: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/usdebt.html