What does a trillion looks like?

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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.

$100

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.

$10,000

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.

$1,000,000 (one million dollars)

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

$1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars)

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...

$1,000,000,000,000 (one 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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[levenshulme31]

"Show me the money!"

(or at least post a proper link to the pictures if you please)

edit - I found it. That's a scary image.

 

[belamy]

http://www.worldart.com.au/images/mona-lisa1.jpg

 

[levenshulme31]

Although they always describe the Mona Lisa as being priceless, I reckon it would probably come in at around $200 million if it ever went under the hammer.

 

[slowandsteady]

ask george bush, he was spending it

 

[Cactusjack47]

Why not ask Obama instead since he's spending more than Bush ever dreamt of spending and has more on the burner to come.

 

[gsdx]

I posted this in January:

If you could spend $1,000,000 ($1 million) every minute of every hour of every day for a full year, you would have spent only $525,600,000,000 ($525.6 billion). That's just over 1/2 a trillion dollars. It would take you almost 2 years to spend $1 trillion.

Also in my post, Bush spent $11.5 trillion in 8 years:

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249097

(FYI - I posted the numbers with zeros included since different countries have different numbers of zeros for the same amount. For instance, I believe a British 'billion' has 12 zeros, which is equivalent to our 'trillion'.)