Some perspective on Millions, Billions and Trillions: ------------------------------------------- A Million dollars in crisp new thousand $ bills tightly wound stack would be about 4 ½ inches high.
A Billion dollars would stack over 365 feet high, roughly the height of a small skyscraper.
A Trillion dollars would stack 69 miles into the blackness of sub orbital space, beyond the sight of the human eye, and perhaps the human imagination. A trillion is a ridiculously large number. ------------------------------------------
The next time you hear a politician use the words "billion" casually, think about whether you want that politician spending your tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into 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 dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.
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