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Stacking One Trillion Dollars

Posted September 02, 2011 1:50 PM

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The claim: A stack of one trillion one-dollar bills would reach to the moon and back four times. Physicist Rhett Allain tests this and estimates the size of a $1 trillion "cashteroid."

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09/02/2011 6:33 PM

Remember, money doesn't go as far as it used to.
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09/02/2011 7:13 PM

Pretty funny, though! And you're right; it don't.

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09/05/2011 5:07 AM

don't doesn't
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Does, so!

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09/02/2011 10:32 PM

I heard that if you use $1000 bills, the distance would only be 64 miles. That's only about 103km. If you were stacking this lot in one hour, you'd be exceeding the NZL speed limit.
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09/05/2011 12:38 AM

http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/

A good illustration.

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09/05/2011 2:34 AM

What a nonsense, one trillion Dollars is only 0.030 inch (= 0.762 millimeters) thick.

The thickness of a credit card

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09/05/2011 10:27 AM

I'd rather accept a check.
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09/06/2011 3:57 AM

Presumably, on the same principal, the current economic deficit would be several holes to the Earth's core. These could be used for generating geothermal energy
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09/06/2011 6:49 AM

If you can all ask as many friends as possible to send me a dollar bill, I'll try and test this. Even if I only get a couple of yards of bills, it will be a very worthwhile empirical test and we can try extrapolate the data.

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