Crash Course: Chapter 11 – How Much is a Trillion? by Chris Martenson
chapter 11 (How Much Is A Trillion?): Recently, we have gotten used to hearing the word “trillion.” From trillions of dollars of government debt to trillion dollar bailout packages, we are spending enormous sums of money. However, most of us dont realize how much a trillion actually is. Dr. Martenson explains how much a trillion is using a few examples, such as a 67.9 mile high stack of $1,000 bills. As he concludes: “Make no mistake, a trillion is a very, very big number and we should not be lulled into complacency simply because it is too big to really get our minds around. That should drive us to action instead.”
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sounds more …
sounds more dramatic if he said a stack of hundreds that goes 670 miles high
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
80 years ago We …
80 years ago We thought that we were in a universe with Billions of stars! This was at atime when A Million was a big number. Now we Know that there are Trillions if not an unlimited amount of them. Now so goes our economy.
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Who ever said …
Who ever said anything about the world was remotely realistic? In fact I would go so far as to say that very little, if anything, that we see, hear, or read in the mainstream media has any bearing on the truth at all. Oh, that also includes the complete disinformation spoonfed to the corporate media by the Government as well. We can no longer believe anything that is being told to us…our non-representative representatives stopped listening to us a long time ago.
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
In a Realistic …
In a Realistic World the U.S. wouldn’t even be worth a Trillion$
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
metrical system for …
metrical system for the win….
one kilometre = 1000 metres.
one metre = 1000 millimetres.
i have grown up with it, im so used to it that i realized there has to be a mistake when you multiply 4 inches with 1 trillion and end up with a number that doesnt start with a 4, followed by zeros. do you realize that the whole planet, with the exception of the united states, has adopted the metrical system? a calculation like this shouldnt be more than a shift in the decimal point.
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
How Much Did we …
How Much Did we give the banks? £1.5 trillion pounds in the UK and that is just for starters
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
A TRILLIAN DOLLARS! …
A TRILLIAN DOLLARS! Wow! I’m in SPACE!!!!!!
Hi MOM! *Waves*
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
nice explanation. …
nice explanation. Now explain how much 2 duodecillion dollars is.
Thats the sum a brazilian old woman asked in court as reparation for an account closed without her permission, 50 years ago, by Banco do Brasil.
A possible explanation… supposed each 1 dollar bill is an hidrogen atom. Stack each atom side by side, touching each other. The number of aligned atoms would transverse the visible universe (30 bi light years) and would be less than two duodecillion!
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Good stuff. Check …
Good stuff. Check out mine “How Much is a Trillion, Anyway?” at richardknight1
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
That’s some crazy …
That’s some crazy stuff right there I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around that because he talking about thousands imagine if they were 20’s lmao!!
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Wow! We’re all …
Wow! We’re all screwed.
June 13th, 2009 at 3:38 am