What is a Trillion Dollars?

First, a look at the numbers...

1 (one)
10 (ten)
100 (one hundred)
1,000 (one thousand)
10,000 (ten thousand)
100,000 (one hundred thousand)
1,000,000 (one million)
10,000,000 (ten million)
100,000,000 (one hundred million)
1,000,000,000 (one billion)
10,000,000,000 (ten billion)
100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion)
1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion)

Now, the analogies...
• If someone spent one million dollars per day each and every day from Jesus' birth, it would take another 731 years beyond today to spend one trillion dollars.
• If you laid one-dollar bills end to end, one trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it spun out one trillion dollar bills!
• If you took freshly-minted, brand-new $1,000 dollar bills and started stacking them one on top of another, it would take a stack over 68 miles high to reach one trillion dollars!
It's become almost surreal... but bad, like a nightmare!

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