Pfloydgad Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 A Billion seconds ago is was 1959A Billion minutes ago, Jesus was aliveA Billion hours ago, our ancestors were in the Stone AgeA Billion days ago, nothing on this Earth walked on 2 feetWait for it:A Billion Dollars, just 8 hrs and 20 minutes for our Gov. to spend it An intersting breakdown of A Billion.Just thoiught I'd contribute to the fodder.Ride safe all.Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysix Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrant Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 How Big is a Trillion? In the U.S., one trillion is written as the number "1" followed by 12 zeros (1,000,000,000,000). One year of clock time = (60sec/min) x (60 min/hr) x (24 hr/da) x (365.25 da) = 3.16 x 107 sec One trillion seconds of ordinary clock time = ( 1012 sec)/( 3.16 x 107 sec/yr) = 31,546 years! Six trillion seconds equals 189,276 years. Now, as an aside, along with the nearly six trillion miles in the light-year, you might be interested to know that there are nearly five trillion dollars in the current U.S. national debt. Is it any wonder that our politicians in Washington are concerned? (An interesting bit of trivia: If one were to count the national Debt at the rate of one dollar per second, he or she would have to use a mechanical counter to click off the digits. Why? Because, if he or she counted in the usual way, saying "one, two, three, …" etc., there would be numbers whose names are so large, that it would take more than a second of clock time to pronounce them. For example: "Nine hundred and ninety nine billion, nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine," takes about 8 seconds to pronounce.)http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSparky Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 in other words... we're screwed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopLeft Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 And I was happy to find $5 I didn't know I had in pocket after laundry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildit Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 And I was happy to find $5 I didn't know I had in pocket after laundry...Don't forget to claim that on your taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vf1000ride Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 I forget where I had seen it but I want to say that someone was claiming1 trillion is roughly the number of grains of sand used in a beach volleyball court that is 6 inches deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 i wish i could just loan myself 6.3 trillion dollars.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildit Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 i wish i could just loan myself 6.3 trillion dollars....Can I borrow a couple billion? I promise my grand kids will be good for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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