Posted on 01/06/2011 6:42:52 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...
And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...
Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
Scroll down...
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
Notice those pallets are double stacked.
...and remember those are $100 bills.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.
* Step by step calculations & dimensions are here for those who may be interested.
* You may also be interested to see the U.S. National Debt in $100 dollar bills.
I’ve seen this before, and realised that palletized one trillion dollars would practically cover my 2.5 acre yard.
Look at the 3rd image. That is NOT 100 packets of $100 bills. It looks more like about 5 packets.
A standard bill is 6.14 inches by 2.61 inches. A stack of 100 bills is approximately .43 inches thick. So, a stack of $100 bills equal to $10,000 is 6.14 inches wide, by 2.61 inches deep, by .43 inches thick. A stack of 100 bills gives you 6.890922 cubic inches. 100 stacks would give you 689.0922 cubic inches.
That stack of 1 million dollars appears to be two bills wide (12.28 inches). Divide 689.0922 by 12.28 and you get 56.115. That stack also appears to be roughly 4.5 inches tall, so, divide by 4.5 and you get 13.05 inches (which is exactly 5 bills deep, front to back) - which appears to be how deep that stack is. I'd say the numbers are right.
I just want 10 square feet of that...
If it's not the reason, it should be... then again it's almost a little too logical...
On the other hand.. if we would just give each Congresscritter, all 535 of ‘em including the Senate...a million dollars each just to go home and quit legislatin’ at the onset of each congressional session-America would come out ahead-for once.
EXCELLENT Graphics - real eye-opener! It was just 50 years ago that the late Senator Dirksen was ATTRIBUTED as saying “A Billion here and a Billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money!” Sheesh!
What do you mean we? only the giveruppers are doomed.To win we need to beat up congress until they get it.
[ BTW, one reason the government stopped printing $500 and $1000 bills is so large sums of money will be more detectable and harder to transport clandestinely. Or so I heard.
If it’s not the reason, it should be... then again it’s almost a little too logical... ]
These days the fed can just magically summon up digital cash clandestinely without needing to involve the bureau of printing and engraving.
I have two questions.
1. just how much would all of that weigh, minus the pallets?
2. how do I go about getting my hands on that stack?
What I meant was I wanted 10 square feet of that double-stacked pallet area. I should have qualified my statement. Given the stacks appear to be about 4 feet high, that'd be that'd be 8 feet less 12 inches for two pallets, so 2x5x7 would be 70 cubic feet. That'd be about right. If you consider that $10,000 is 6.868476 cubic inches, and there are 1728 cubic inches in a cubic foot, then 70 cubic feet equals 120,960 cubic inches. Divide that by 6.868476 and you get 17,610.89 (stacks of $10,000 in 70 cubic feet). That would be a tidy $176,108,936 (rounded to the nearest whole dollar).
My math was off - that’s not roughly 8 feet for two stacks, it’s roughly 7.5 feet less about a foot for the pallets - so, it would be 65 cubic feet, not 70. That would be about $163,529,726 rounded. Still works for me.
Not to split hairs or anything but I’d take that swag and not complain one bit. It would make life a tad easier to live on.
This thread reminds me of something a friend said he saw etched into a bathroom stall. It read, “Someone, somewhere, has some money, and I have to find some way to get some of it”. I couldn’t agree more and subscribe to that.
Wow, just wow! Good work 1rudeboy.
1 ream of paper --> 5 poundsSo if my math is correct (and it rarely is), one truckload of $100 notes = 48,000 pounds**
10 reams of paper --> 1 case
40 cases of paper --> one pallet
24 pallets of paper --> one truckload*
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*48-foot flatbed or van trailer
**the maximum weight before specialized equipment is needed (generally)
“What do you mean we? only the giveruppers are doomed.To win we need to beat up congress until they get it.”
Simply just quit electing the bastards to the Congress!
Agree we need to beat up congress but everytime we elect the new ones they turn into the old ones,keep replacing them is all we can do.
Well, yeah, the commie ones do but they have another agenda.
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