billions!

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

The 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.

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[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

It would take 32,000 years to spend a dollar a second

...what?

[kko.livejournal.com]

numbers are big

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

[kko.livejournal.com]

4 years at harvard can cost you around $300,000

if you spent a dollar a day it would take you over 800 years to pay for the total billed costs

therefor graduating from harvard is impossible

[mrsilence.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should edit it to say something like: Spending at a rate of a dollar a second, you would have to earn $3600/hr and it would take 32,000 years to spend a trillion dollars.

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

A dollar bill is about .11 cm thick. That means a stack of $1,000,000,000,000 will be 683,508 miles high.

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.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

But if you spent $1 billion / second you could blow it in about 15 minutes.

[hey-its-michael.livejournal.com]

If you think about how many atoms are in a single dollar bill, suddenly one trillion dollar bills doesn't seem like that much. lol

[torpidai.livejournal.com]

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.

Ah, but you've posted this as if you're solving the Greek financial problems as one single person/entity, if you now spread that amongst those who are payings total populations, the numbers are tiny, still irksome, but tiny.

Me, I say, Just like the banks, shoulda just called in the recievers, sold their assets at auction, paid their debts pro-rata, and moved on, but that just aint the capitalist way when we're talking real money now is it, That just happens to the poor and low turnover capitalists.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Here, let me introduce you to my ex.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

What the hell happened.
I thought Canadians were a thoughtful people [that's right, your representin' your whole country, so step it up].

This oddball drivel-licious post is more like something I would do than you.