Putting a Trillion Dollars in Perspective
A unique graphic approach to visualizing a trillion bucks can be seen here.
More amusing visualizations:
A stack of 100 dollar bills totaling a trillion dollars would stand 740 miles high.
A stack of one dollar bills totaling a trillion dollars would stand 74,000 miles high, or 30% of the distance to the Moon.
If you string a trillion $1 bills end-to-end, you would get a belt of bills about 90 million miles long. That would reach past Mars’s orbit in one direction and in the other direction, would almost reach the Sun.
Hat tip to National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg.
UPDATE: Thanks to Robb Allen for the link.
Old Soldier said,
March 6, 2009 @ 09:19:03
And isn’t is amazing how fast obama can get rid of it.
Cap'n Bob said,
March 6, 2009 @ 15:00:11
President Barack Hussein
Sig94 said,
March 6, 2009 @ 18:45:47
If you tried to count to a trillion, it would take you 95,000 years of counting non-stop.
Sig94 said,
March 6, 2009 @ 18:51:31
That would the time to count a trillion one dollar bills taking three seconds to count each bill, separating it from a stack of singles.