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Robatoy

09/03/2009 3:23 PM

OT: (Sort of) Using SketchUp to show what a trillion dollars looks like.

This as cool as it is amazing.

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html


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Robatoy

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

10/03/2009 12:48 PM

On Mar 9, 9:00=A0pm, jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robatoy wrote:
> > This as cool as it is amazing.
>
> >http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
>
> Heck, that's a good week's pay...

At that rate, you can afford to leave a skid as a tip.

Lr

"Leon"

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

09/03/2009 6:16 PM


"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> This as cool as it is amazing.
>
> http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Imagine what a trillion dollars would look like in pennies. I believe you
would need the Grand Canyon to hold them all.


JS

Jack Stein

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

11/03/2009 11:53 AM

jo4hn wrote:

>> http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
>
> Heck, that's a good week's pay...

A trillion here, a trillion there... soon, you're talking real money...

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Tom Veatch

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

09/03/2009 6:44 PM

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:23:19 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:

>This as cool as it is amazing.
>
>http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html


Another way to look at it is:

1 trillion dollars = 10 billion $100 bills
if each one is .004 inches thick, a stack of $100 dollar bills that
totaled 1 trillion dollars would be:

40 million inches high or
more than 3 million feet high or
more than 630 miles high




Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA

Mm

"MJMIII"

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

09/03/2009 6:51 PM

"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> This as cool as it is amazing.
>
> http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html


How is SketchUp at printing?
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If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.


Mb

"MikeWhy"

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

09/03/2009 7:29 PM

"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> This as cool as it is amazing.
>>
>> http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
>
> Imagine what a trillion dollars would look like in pennies. I believe you
> would need the Grand Canyon to hold them all.

Not sure about the Grand Canyon. Is it larger than 57.8 million cu. yards?

Here's a slightly different way of looking at those pennies. A penny is 1.55
mm thick
(http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=coin_specifications).
100 trillion pennies makes a stack 96.3 million miles high. The distance
from the Earth to the Sun at Aphelion, it's farthest point in orbit, is 94.5
million miles.

jj

jo4hn

in reply to Robatoy on 09/03/2009 3:23 PM

09/03/2009 6:00 PM

Robatoy wrote:
> This as cool as it is amazing.
>
> http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Heck, that's a good week's pay...


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