Just For Fun- What Does 1 Trillion Dollars Look Like?

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tkbslc Pillar of the Community United States 1158 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 02:46 am Thought this was a bit mind blowing given the national budget and debt these days: What does a trillion in $100 bills look like? http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/c...lations.html Disclaimer: I Don't want to turn this into anything political based on mentioning the national debt. Just look and wonder in amazement at how much money 1 Trillion dollars is. Edited by tkbslc 08/13/2015 02:47 am Report this Post to the Staff

BuckeyeCoinGuy Pillar of the Community United States 711 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 03:05 am Yes the amount is staggering. I don't know if this bit is true, but I have been told that if you took all of Bill Gates' net worth and converted it into one dollar bills and stacked them up and then had Bill sit on his pile of bills and he were to have some sort of accident and fall off that he would die of old age before gravity would return him to the ground. Report this Post to the Staff
zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 04:26 am Quote: I don't know if this bit is true, but I have been told that if you took all of Bill Gates' net worth and converted it into one dollar bills and stacked them up and then had Bill sit on his pile of bills and he were to have some sort of accident and fall off that he would die of old age before gravity would return him to the ground. Just did the math on that. Without explaining all the math, which would take a while to type out, plainly, it would only take bill gates 1.79 days to get back down to the earth, so that would be incorrect. Report this Post to the Staff
T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 07:53 am That's still a long time to be FREE FALLING. Report this Post to the Staff
CSOTUS Pillar of the Community 1153 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 08:40 am If I stacked my net worth in $1 bills and fell off I would definitely have quite a little scratch on elbow Report this Post to the Staff
barryg Pillar of the Community United States 5850 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 08:40 am Well, I'm not sure about 1 trillion dollars, but I do know what 100 trillion dollars looks like: Expanded Digital U.S. Type Set Album \| Dansco 8100 (Lincon Cents) Album \| Digital Proof Type Set \| Digital U.S. Currency Type Set \| Foreign Bullion Coins Report this Post to the Staff
moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 08/13/2015 09:22 am Good Lord. I'm glad I actually saw the math because I don't think I would have believed it would take so much space for a Trillion dollars, in 100 dollar bills no less. Report this Post to the Staff
tkbslc Pillar of the Community United States 1158 Posts	Posted 08/17/2015 1:26 pm Quote: ust did the math on that. Without explaining all the math, which would take a while to type out, plainly, it would only take bill gates 1.79 days to get back down to the earth, so that would be incorrect. That's about a height of 6300 miles. So you'd be in orbit. It might take a few decades to spiral into the earth from that height, so maybe that's the math? Edited by tkbslc 08/17/2015 1:30 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 08/17/2015 3:47 pm Report this Post to the Staff
CelticKnot Bedrock of the Community United States 12817 Posts	Posted 08/17/2015 11:38 pm Another argument for the return of the $10k note! (Though that would still be an obscene amount of paper) Report this Post to the Staff
zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 08/18/2015 7:55 pm Quote: That's about a height of 6300 miles. So you'd be in orbit. It might take a few decades to spiral into the earth from that height, so maybe that's the math? Speaking technically, to stay in orbit, your centripetal force must equal the force of gravity. This is represented by the equation: v = [(Gm)/r)]^0.5 6300 miles = 10,080 km = 10,080,000m Average radius of the earth (r) = 6.37 x 10^6 m (plus the height above the earth) Universal Gravitational Constant (G) = 6.67 x 10^-11 mass of the earth (m) = 5.98 x 10^24 kg So basically the velocity needed to stay in orbit around the earth would be 78,000 m/s. Terminal Velocity for a human is only 56m/s. Still not possible. Edited by zxcccxz 08/18/2015 7:55 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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