What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

[Habakuk]

I found this and just want to share it with you. Quite interesting and demonstrative. The author writes:

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.

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

Maybe someone could pile up MBPs or iPhones for one Trillion dollars that would be even more demonstrative for us here ;-)

[acearchie]

Thats class! I love it.

Now I just need to get my hands on a load of pallets and start filling them!

[Habakuk]

Some additional info, there's the number missing of a million million (a thousand billion):

1,000,000,000,000

There are some awkward difficulties with other languages. In German p.e. one trillion is called "eine Billion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion

Now I just need to get my hands on a load of pallets and start filling them!

Later on, don't forget the Money Bins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_bin) like Scrooge McDuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck). Don't let get it wet, it's just paper.

[sammich]

No smoking within 10 miles of this area :D

[twoodcc]

dang that's a crazy amount of money, and pallets. i would love to have just 1, or 2 pallets. that's all

[&Ingonyama]

Saw this awhile ago:

http://87billion.com

[ikermalli]

He must've been a drug dealer (the guy standing beside the $$$)

[iJohnHenry]

Later on, don't forget the Money Bins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_bin) like Scrooge McDuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck). Don't let get it wet, it's just paper.

I was a big fan of the Scrooge McDuck comics books, and particularly liked the Beagle Boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Boys). :)

[Abstract]

With all that money, and you could send a number of spacecrafts to the moon, reform healthcare, and develop an alternative fuel source for cars and airplanes far quicker than we'd ever expect......and yet you still couldn't buy a matte screen 15" MBP. :p

[TSE]

He must've been a drug dealer (the guy standing beside the $$$)

If he has that much money, he isn't a dealer. He is a druglord.

[Cassie]

With all that money, and you could send a number of spacecrafts to the moon, reform healthcare, and develop an alternative fuel source for cars and airplanes far quicker than we'd ever expect......and yet you still couldn't buy a matte screen 15" MBP. :p

Somehow I think that with that kind of money, you could bribe Apple to custom build one for you. :p

[yizzle0912]

Makes me feel REALLY poor:(

[63dot]

A Trillion. The Iraq War?

Edit: January 7, 2007 New York Times estimate 1.2 trillion, so I guess I underestimated.

[Mr. lax]

Thats so much money, like wow!!

[iParis]

Holy crap that is a lot of money!
I wonder if you could buy out Apple with that much money.

[63dot]

Thats so much money, like wow!!

I used to count about $25,000 dollars in mostly small bills, coins, and checks usually under a $100 dollars at a medium sized grocery store, and that was one huge pile to count. It took nearly all day to count it up and get it ready for the bankers.

What's amazing is that picture the OP has depicts crisp $100s.

[Mr. lax]

Holy crap that is a lot of money!
I wonder if you could buy out Apple with that much money.

Absolutely. I'm thinking you could buy out anything with that. The interest alone on that would be 10 billion a year give or take a couple billion

[wywern209]

btw
1 tril. bucks will get u 500,250 base 15" macbook pros for 1999.crap, that is alot of MBP
or 357,270 17 " base MBPs
wow. lots of macbooks. if u want to know 8gb ipod touches
4,366,812 ipod touch 2G 8gb

crap stacking that many is going to be a pain.

[wywern209]

1 trillion is approx. 1/2 the debt of the USA right now..

[iParis]

btw
1 tril. bucks will get u 500,250 base 15" macbook pros for 1999.crap, that is alot of MBP
or 357,270 17 " base MBPs
wow. lots of macbooks. if u want to know 8gb ipod touches
4,366,812 ipod touch 2G 8gb

crap stacking that many is going to be a pain.

Mind figuring out how many 1GB 2G iPod shuffle's that would buy?:cool:

[wywern209]

Mind figuring out how many 1GB 2G iPod shuffle's that would buy?:cool:

sure! that would yield at maximum, 20,408,163.26 1gb ipod shuffles. wow. lots of shuffles.

[Burnsey]

sure! that would yield at maximum, 20,408,163.26 1gb ipod shuffles. wow. lots of shuffles.

What does .26 of an ipod shuffle look like?

[Abstract]

Me singing on a street corner.

[GSMiller]

Perhaps we should switch to the Euro...Then it wouldn't take up so much space.

[Melrose]

Hmph. I could have a bit of fun with all that...

[wywern209]

What does .26 of an ipod shuffle look like?

It looks likea little man in ur pocket singing when u prod him with ur finger and yell the name of the song u want.
NOTE: little man comes with no usb ports and is not compatible with ipod shuffle.

[xkRoWx]

btw
1 tril. bucks will get u 500,250 base 15" macbook pros for 1999.crap, that is alot of MBP
or 357,270 17 " base MBPs
wow. lots of macbooks. if u want to know 8gb ipod touches
4,366,812 ipod touch 2G 8gb

crap stacking that many is going to be a pain.


And to know that Apple have sold about 10 million iPhones...

[sammich]

btw
1 tril. bucks will get u 500 250 125 base 15" macbook pros for 1999.crap, that is alot of MBP
or 357 270 000 17" base MBPs
wow. lots of macbooks. if u want to know 8gb ipod touches
4 366 812 000 ipod touch 2G 8gb

crap stacking that many is going to be a pain.

I think someone forgot an extra "000"....fixed.

[trule]

1 trillion is approx. 1/2 the debt of the USA right now..

err, US public (federal government) debt is 11 trillion

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/...

and unfunded liabilites of federal government are around 60-70 trillion

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28-federal-budget_N.htm


don't plan on retiring ...

:eek: