Posted on 03/11/2010 1:51:28 PM PST by OldNavyVet
The only thing the gubmint does well is waste money.
That's one way light speed.
How relatively fast would two beams going in opposite directions be travelling?
Might we call that overtime?
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“Now, how much would that weigh?”
Regardless of denomination a US currency note is approximately 1 gram.
So one trillion dollars in $100 bills would weigh:
10,000,000,000 grams
which would be:
10,000,000 (ten million kilograms)
at 2.20462262 lbs per kilogram
22,046,226lbs
Did I miss something? Isn't FR supposed to be about politics? It seems to have morphed into a 13-year-old insult session.
For crying out loud, people, GROW UP.
One way out of this is bankruptcy, but nature will not allow such shenangigans.
Our politicians are placing all of us on a bus to hell.
The example that seems to make a good impression is “Imagine you start a business at the time Christ was born. Lose a million dollars a day, every day, year in and year out. 700 years from -NOW- you will be 1 trillion dollars in debt.”
Ha! A trick question, eh? According to relativity theory, they would still travel at 186,000 miles per second relative to one another. The dimensionality of space-time would adjust to accommodate it.
A million million.
Yep. In scientific notation you would simply add the exponents:
10^6 x 10^6 = 10^12
Wow! ... You triggered a memory.
Steve Jones, in "Darwin's Ghost" (pg 214), writes ...
"Measurements of dozens of real rivers, and computer simulations of many more, show that the relatonship between their shortest possible path across a plain and their actual length is always the same. It is Pi ... "
One way out of this is bankruptcy, but nature will not allow such shenangigans.
Our politicians are placing all of us on a bus to hell.
Autodesk founder John Walker posted this very useful description & image on his site back in 2008:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2008-11/001087.html
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no big deal at all. since Cia world factbook says that the US Gdp per capita is about $ 46.000 per year.
This only means that every citizen (from a baby to the eldest one) only has to work one Year for free. (and of course stop eating,living... while this and “we” are done!
This is all “we need” to get out of debt!
“Measurements of dozens of real rivers, and computer simulations of many more, show that the relationship between their shortest possible path across a plain and their actual length is always the same. It is Pi ... “
That’s very interesting. I’m still trying to figure out why that might be, assuming it’s indeed true. I realize a meandering river is a sinuous wave of sorts (as in trigonometry/geometry). Perhaps the answers relates to that somehow.
Too dam* much to pay off if it’s dollars.
IMHO
DNA is a river from the past. If the trickle seen today is driven by selection, why should its majestic passage through time not obey the same rules.
It is possible to argue that all the great leading facts in paleontology seem simply to follow on the theory of descent with modification. Old forms are supplanted by new and improved forms, produced by the laws of variation that still act around us, and preserved by natural selection. Like the bed of a great river, the course of evolution is in its substance simple.
Think of it in terms of GDP. Since GDP is around 12T, then 1 trillion is about “a month”.
So a trillion is the income received by every person and every company in the US for a month.
And how about imagining this...
To fund the 36 trillion unfunded liability of Medicare, everyone and every company would have to fork over their income for 3 years.
And remember, that’s before tax and expenses, so you’d have to have your mortgage, fuel, tax withholding, and all other bills saved up in advance to cover your butt for that 3 year period since, by definition of this scenario, all your income is going to fund that unfunded liability and not paying your regular bills along the way.
Have a nice day!
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