A very disturbing "visual" on the radio this morning. I don't know who it was because I started listening halfway through. But he asked: If a stack of $1000 bills 4 inches tall equals $1 million, how tall would the stack be to make it $1 trillion?

The answer will astound you.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

It would take you about an hour to drive from one end to the other.

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

That's a 70x70 foot cube.

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Or we could say 333,000,000 feet. The earth is said to be approximately 25,000 miles in circumference, which I think is 132,000,000 feet. Two times around the earth would be 254,000,000 and then you would have 79,000,000 million feet which would run from Cicero, IN to probably I'd say Alice Springs in the Australian Outback. That is a very long stack of $1000 dollar bills, I think maybe more then we can pay back, I mean the whole 12 trillion.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C.S. Lewis



1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA

2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!

It depends what country you're in, it's either 10^12 or 10^18; either is a large number.

I calcluate about 63 miles high...

Rgds,
Chris W.

oops. I missed a decimal.

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

That's what I had figured.

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

A trillion is about half the number of dollars we owe the Chinese, I believe . . . .

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I was puzzled by your post about driving an hour. Then I calcuated 63 miles, and figured that is what you meant.
Can your Benz drive 63 miles vertically in an hour? I'm impressede.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Thats with no traffic or lights.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

Even more impressive is a stack of bills 63 miles high that would remain upright.

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

I have an idea. Print more. Repay China. Devalue our dollar that way. US exports will become cheaper. We already have all the TV's we need. Start buying local again. Unemployment declines in the US.

Or is that too simple?

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

There's a name for that: Inflation.