I was wondering how to wrap my head around how much a trillion is considering that's almost the amount of the current bailout package in this current economics crisis we are currently in. I found a pretty good explanation on npr.com So I learned if you were to measure a trillion in time the breakdown would be as follows:

A million seconds = 11-1/2 days
A billion seconds = 32 years
A trillion seconds = 32,000 years

Also in terms of money...if you were to spend $1000 every day it would take you 2.7 million years to spend a trillion dollars.

Well, time to get started.

If I had a trillion dollars
(If I had a trillion dollars)
I'd kill the Barenaked Ladies
(just because I hate their guts)

i say we let it all go to hell and go back to living in trees. i already have mine picked out. nice oak number

"a nice oak number" LOLllllllllllllllllllll

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UnknownEric wrote:

If I had a trillion dollars
(If I had a trillion dollars)
I'd kill the Barenaked Ladies
(just because I hate their guts)

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I'd buy me a mule! 50 of 'em! 

So how much is a zillion dollars?

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biped wrote:
So how much is a zillion dollars?

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matclarke wrote:
Also in terms of money...if you were to spend $1000 every day it would take you 2.7 million years to spend a trillion dollars.

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This blew my mind

And as long as nobody kills off Sugar Ray I'll be happy, Fly is the Mona Lisa of the 20th century

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mandingo wrote:
i say we let it all go to hell and go back to living in trees. i already have mine picked out. nice oak number

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Keep your hands off my tree you damn dirty ape!

Oh, I'd like to spend a thousand dollars a day! But we'd better hurry...it's ten minutes to three!