Want to know what debt looks like?
Posted by PIMPIN TURTLE at 9/19/2008 10:41 PM and is filed under Money,Pimpin Turtle,Latest News,Other Stuff 
PIMPIN TURTLE
A dollar bill measures 0.01" thick. Stack one million of them on top of each other and you end up with a stack 833 feet tall.
Stack a billion dollars on top of each other and you get a stack 157.8 miles high (the highest ever recorded flight was an experimental plane called the X-15 and it reached a height of 67 miles, not even halfway up our stack). 157.8 miles is close to the distance from Baltimore Maryland to New York City (180 miles).
Stack a trillion dollars on top of each other and the stack now stretches 157,828.3 miles high. The circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles so this stack would encompass the Earth 6.3 times. That means you could stand at a point on the earth and there would be 6 rows of dollar bills , side by side, that went from horizon to horizon. Mind you, this is not laid out end to end but laid flat on top of each other.
How much debt has the US just taken on? How much debt do we currently carry? 9.6 trillion dollars of debt. In other words 1,515,151 miles worth of greenbacks. That's to the moon and back 3 times.
Hope you found this interesting.
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