Just how much is a Trillion dollars and what does it look like??

[texikaner]

burn that shit !

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

You mean $1,000 bills....if the stack was $1 bills then it would be 68,000 miles high. YIKES! That would be a very long fall.

Alright! I was only wrong times a thousand.

Gives new meaning to the phrase "grand error".

 

[OsWiZzLe]

Easy....ever watch Duck Tales? Uncle Scrooge when he dives into that huge vault of gold and swims around in it....something like that

 

[etinarcadiaego]

Very cool, Google Sketchup does have real-life uses!

 

[Space Case]

So take your local Costco location, and stack $100 dollar bills in there...seems to be about to scale...

 

[GreatLakes THC]

Here's another example...

Here's another example...

This is a pile of cash worth $250,000,000. A trillion dollars would be 4000 of these piles.

GreatLakes THC

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

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[CARE giver]

Ok am I the only one who thinks this doesn't make sense?

So 100 million is one pallet. And the 1 billion picture shows 8 pallets? That would only equal 800 million.

And the 1 billion to 1 trillion looks a little drastic. It should be however many pallets 1 billion is times 100. Which I guess would be 800. And that is far more than 800.

Am I missing something?

 

[primeform]

nice post. ron paul is the only politician that even grasps this concept.

 

[WasntMe]

Ok am I the only one who thinks this doesn't make sense?

So 100 million is one pallet. And the 1 billion picture shows 8 pallets? That would only equal 800 million.

And the 1 billion to 1 trillion looks a little drastic. It should be however many pallets 1 billion is times 100. Which I guess would be 800. And that is far more than 800.

Am I missing something?

haha, yes you have apparently been missing your math classes.

100 million = 1 pallet
100 million x 10 = 1 billion = 10 pallets (look up, there are 10 not 8 pallets)
1 billion x 100 = 100 billion
1 billion x 1,000 = 1 trillion = 10,000 pallets

50 pallets across x 100 pallets deep x 2 pallets high = 1 trillion.

It really is a daunting quantity. Very easy to get confused and certainly hard to believe just how massive of an amount it really is ...
... but that's why visuals like this can help us understand it better.