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talkpoliticsThe modern world talks extraordinarily huge numbers like billions. Lets figure this out...
1 hour = 3600 seconds
1 day = 86400 seconds
1 year = 31,536,000 seconds
32 x 31,536,000 = 1,009,152,000.
So about a billion seconds ago it was 1978!
So when we talk about the trillion dollar Greek bailout, or the American debt it's incredible.
It would take 32,000 years to spend a dollar a second, assuming you earned $3600/hr, even while sleeping.
1 hour = 3600 seconds
1 day = 86400 seconds
1 year = 31,536,000 seconds
32 x 31,536,000 = 1,009,152,000.
So about a billion seconds ago it was 1978!
So when we talk about the trillion dollar Greek bailout, or the American debt it's incredible.
It would take 32,000 years to spend a dollar a second, assuming you earned $3600/hr, even while sleeping.
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Date: 12/5/10 02:19 (UTC)That is enough to go from the Earth to the Moon almost 3 times.
The US debt is now about $12,000,000,000,000. Stacked on top of each other that pile would reach 8,202,099 miles. Imagine a 2 foot by 2 foot column of dollar bills reaching to the Moon.
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Date: 12/5/10 03:48 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13/5/10 05:22 (UTC)