How do you wrap your head around a TRILLION?

[kimmerspixelated]

The trillion dollar bailout...that would've helped out a whole lot of American families, right? What about every family? I'm not so good at math, so someone can take the ball here. Help me IMAGINE what a Trillion or Trillions of dollars looks like. You know the kind of similarity like- if you laid one blah blah blah end to end it would circle the world x amount of times, or maybe...


IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH TO EXCUSE EVERYONE'S CREDIT CARD DEBT!

EXCUSE MORTGAGE DEFAULT LOANS!

Started a great number of green jobs-for EVERYONE!

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS-I know it would cover it!

The list goes on, of so much, so much!

So these fatcats get the keep the till, huh? GET BONUSES-OBSCENE BONUSES!


WE AMERICANS LIKE TO GET KISSED FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CrispyQ]

1. Maybe this will help:

32,000 years!!

[Petrushka]

2. Here's what it looks like . . .

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

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Thank you that was awesome!

[CrispyQ]

4. Whoa! That is a perfect pictorial!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

You should post this in it's own thread.

[Petrushka]

6. Thanks for the idea! It's now posted in The Lounge.

:patriot:

[RedCloud]

5. And the Pentagon owes us a few trillion too. About $10,000 per each person.

Then I could drive down to the filling station without too much fear!