Mar 11, 2009: The Bailout

Trilby · 03-11-2009, 01:44 PM

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Elspode · 03-11-2009, 05:51 PM

Money, schmunny. I want to know more about that Google thingamajig where you did that. Brilliant job, Bruce.

ZenGum · 03-11-2009, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Money, schmunny. I want to know more about that Google thingamajig where you did that. Brilliant job, Bruce.

Oh and click the link.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-12-2009, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Money, schmunny. I want to know more about that Google thingamajig where you did that. Brilliant job, Bruce.

Moi? Nay nay, ZenGum posted the email that was going around last week, in which the author linked to the Google thingamajig he used to create the illustrations.

I did however find this;

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Therefore, a trillion dollars is ten billion (1010) $100 dollar bills, corresponding to a stack of bills 1200 km or 740 miles high! If the bills were $1 bills, there would be1012 (a trillion) of them, and they’d form a stack 74,000 miles high, or 30% the distance to the Moon!
Suppose the bills were joined end-to-end. Dollar bills are about 6 inches or 15 cm long, so 10 billion $100 dollar bills would form a belt 1.5 x 106 (1.5 million) km long. That’s about 900,000 miles long, almost four times the Earth-Moon distance.
And if you string a trillion $1 bills end-to-end, you’d get a belt o’ bills a hundred times longer than that, or about 90 million miles. You’re past Mars’s orbit and entering the asteroid belt going away from the Sun, and in the other direction, you’ve about reached the Sun!

My post referred to the 363 tons of $100 bills shipped to Iraq.

03-11-2009, 01:44 PM	#1
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	nerds nerds nerdy-nerd-nerd-nerds __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-11-2009, 05:51 PM	#2
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Money, schmunny. I want to know more about that Google thingamajig where you did that. Brilliant job, Bruce. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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