How much is a Trillion?

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How much is a Trillion?

There are 3600 seconds in an hour = 86,400 seconds in a day.

One million seconds is 11.5 days.

One billion seconds is 32 years.

One trillion seconds is 32,000 years.

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Then again, its not that much. There are now hard drives that can store one trillion bytes of data. You can buy one at any computer store.

Also, there are about 7 billion billion billion atoms in an average persion. A whole bunch more than a trillion.

What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

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Yes, bits and bytes and body parts... what's a billion here or there. Maybe just a spleen. Who needs it?

I'm thinking more in terms of money. Like when the budget goes from say 2.8 to 2.9 trillion. Maybe it doesn't sound like that much. A tenth of a trillion is 100 Billion dollars. In seconds that's 3,200 years.

Two trillion dollars in a year is $64,000 per second– all day and all night, every day.

The national debt is $11,000,000,000,000 +. If we started paying it down today (rather than adding to it) and say we throw "just" $1000 per second at it (and we could re-negotiate a 0% deal) – It would take 350 years to pay it off.

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Put another way, if you had a hamburger patty for every dollar in the national debt, you could make a Big Mac, the size of the planet Jupiter..

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Speaking of large scary numbers, here's one for the unregulated, black box shadow economy of OTC derivitives - gross nominal value as of December 2007 - 596 trillion.

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What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

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Very scary... leads me to this:

http://www.movetonz.org/

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Soooo . . . a huge national debt eventually leads to no wings and a long pecker. Makes cents - almost.

tc / thin'air

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tc, then just drink a Red Bull. You'll get your wings back and still have a long pecker

for eating ants, of course. One would have to have a degenerate mind to think I was referring to anything else.

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