Sarah Palin pleads: 'Nobody tell Barack Obama what number comes after a trillion'

[KarlMarx]

Well... technically, a trillion and one comes after a trillion...

The next power of ten is 10 trillion, followed by 100 trillion

a thousand trillion is called a quadrillion

how big is a quadrillion? It's a one followed by 15 zeroes... or 1,000,000,000,000,000

a quadrillion seconds is about 32 million years

a quadrillion inches is 15 billion miles (about 5 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto, the farthest planet)

if you spent a million dollars a day it would take about 2.7 million years to spend a quadrillion dollars

[Pagan]

So it's a bit over due to cut the size, power and reach of Government wouldn't you say ;)

[Noir]

So how many years until the US debt a googleplex...

And as a pedantic aside, Pluto is not a planet anymore, just a Kepler object.

[KarlMarx]

So how many years until the US debt a googleplex...

I don't know ... I'd say... in a quadrillion years?


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And as a pedantic aside, Pluto is not a planet anymore, just a Kepler object.


Yes, but saying "the furthest planet" makes the point better than saying "the nearest Kuiper Belt object"

[red states rule]

Well... technically, a trillion and one comes after a trillion...

The next power of ten is 10 trillion, followed by 100 trillion

a thousand trillion is called a quadrillion

how big is a quadrillion? It's a one followed by 15 zeroes... or 1,000,000,000,000,000

a quadrillion seconds is about 32 million years

a quadrillion inches is 15 billion miles (about 5 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto, the farthest planet)

if you spent a million dollars a day it would take about 2.7 million years to spend a quadrillion dollars


I got this in an email and if also helps put things in persepctive

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about this

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS
To rebuild New Orleans .

Interesting number - what does it mean?

Well .. If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child) each get $516,528.

Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

Or... If you are a family of four your family gets $2,066,012.

Here is a partial list of taxes the government has imposed on us

Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes)

Yet libs tell us we are undertaxed and need to pay more

[Kathianne]

Well... technically, a trillion and one comes after a trillion...

The next power of ten is 10 trillion, followed by 100 trillion

a thousand trillion is called a quadrillion

how big is a quadrillion? It's a one followed by 15 zeroes... or 1,000,000,000,000,000

a quadrillion seconds is about 32 million years

a quadrillion inches is 15 billion miles (about 5 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto, the farthest planet)

if you spent a million dollars a day it would take about 2.7 million years to spend a quadrillion dollars

I like the above, but the visuals help me alot:

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Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.

Go ahead...

Scroll down...






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[NightTrain]

Holy crap! A visual of a trillion really is impressive. That's a sick amount of money!

[Kathianne]

Thank you guys! It's the teacher in me! Where's da rep? :laugh2:

[KarlMarx]

Thank you guys! It's the teacher in me! Where's da rep? :laugh2:
tried to... but I have to spread the love around first

[Insein]

Thank you guys! It's the teacher in me! Where's da rep? :laugh2:

Well played. Now if we could only get some commercials and Billboards with the same info. People would start to pay more attention.

[NightTrain]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Kathianne again. /sad panda

[Kathianne]

/sad panda

LOL! I know, we're simpatico. ;)

[Gaffer]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Kathianne again.

:salute:

[Little-Acorn]

So how many years until the US debt a googleplex...


If the present Democrats were still in power....... about six months.

Fortunately, after Nov. 2 they won't be.