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Want to try to comprehend what a trillion dollars is?

gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
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Its a solid stack....not end to end.....but a continuous brick of $100 bills that extends for 679 miles. Thats about 10 hours of driving alongside a stack of $100's. Remember, im talking about STACK....not laid out end to end!!!


And we are just 13 of these stacks in debt right now! image


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMRBGmja3w&feature=channel

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  • konsolekonsole Posts: 795 ✭✭✭
    That series by Chris Martenson is a great series, I picked up the DVD of his Crash Course on amazon a while back.

    It makes me wonder everyday when the reality will finally set it that the national debt is impossible to pay off.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Its a solid stack....not end to end.....but a continuous brick of $100 bills that extends for 679 miles. Thats about 10 hours of driving alongside a stack of $100's. Remember, im talking about STACK....not laid out end to end!!! And we are just 13 of these stacks in debt right now!

    If the notional value of the existing otc derivatives were stacked the same way, they'd extend nearly 1,000,000 miles....approx 2 round trips to the moon.
    Or if the stack was replaced with $1 bills, it would stretch to the sun, 93 MILL miles away........image

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,277 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Or if the stack was replaced with $1 bills, it would stretch to the sun, 93 MILL miles away........image

    roadrunner >>



    This wouldn't be possible. They would catch on fire long before they reached the sun.image

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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    video says $1,000 bills 679 miles stacked not $100image
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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    video
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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Or a stack of quarters to the moon...250,000+ miles.
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭


    << <i>video says $1,000 bills 679 miles stacked not $100image >>




    No...vid says a stack of $1,000's stacked 67.9 miles. I simply made it easier to digest by using $100's.image
  • fastrudyfastrudy Posts: 2,096 ✭
    They would catch on fire long before they reached the sun

    No, fire requries oxygen........they would be damn hot, though!
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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    You standing next to a trillion dollar bills
  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,376 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How much is a trillion Zimbabwe dollars worth now, in Gold or Silver?

    You can stack paper bills, trees, toilet paper, paper plannes, whatever...it is still intrinsically worthless.

    That's what I appreciate about the Fed being able to produce numbers (dollars) on a computer, no wasted trees!

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  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Or if the stack was replaced with $1 bills, it would stretch to the sun, 93 MILL miles away........image

    roadrunner >>



    This wouldn't be possible. They would catch on fire long before they reached the sun.image >>



    Reminds me of a joke:

    Two guys, Ed and his brother Ed, are always into hair brained projects. They decide to build a rocketship to fly to the sun. Their neighbor sees the project taking shape and asks what the rocket is for. The brothers Ed and Ed tell their neighbor, "we is gonna fly to the sun, we is gonna be famous." The neighbor slaps his head, and says, "that thing won't fly, besides you can't fly to the sun, you'll burn up." The smarter of the Ed brothers replies, "what do you think, we is stupid, we have that figured out, we is gonna fly to the sun at night."
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  • WegWeg Posts: 544
    Good jokeimage

    I read another "try to comprehend what a trillion dollars is" awhile back on one of the forums, can't remember which one, no matter.
    This one went: If Jesus spent one million dollars a day from the day he was born until now, he still would not have spent one trillion dollars.
    Just kind of blows your mind.
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  • piecesofmepiecesofme Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭
    That's what I appreciate about the Fed being able to produce numbers (dollars) on a computer, no wasted trees!

    LMAO!!! Now that's defintely a different approach to this sad story being written (and/or played out) daily.
    To forgive is to free a prisoner, and to discover that prisoner was you.
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