-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anjana Basu Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:05 AM Subject: [TriumphOfContent] We're Screwed.
We're Screwed. July 26, 2011 <http://www.architizer.com/blog/dyn/26262/were-screwed/> After an optimistic day of blissful marriages and pop up chapels <http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/26103/pop-up-chapel-winners/> , whimsical <http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/26116/26116/> urban farms, and serene Japanese modernism <http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/26157/google-architecture-view/> , we get an infographic <http://www.wtfnoway.com/> which couldn't exude more doom-and-gloom. Don't let the stacks of money fool you. We're screwed. Click for more. <http://www.architizer.com/blog/dyn/26262/were-screwed/> The graphics visualize the current U.S. debt ($15 trillion and growing) in volumes, using the $100 bill as a building unit. The blocks of bills start off small enough-a million dollars does really fit into a couple of briefcases-but it all, like everything else, rapidly spins out of control. It would be hard to single-handedly sneak off with a $100 million dollars, it would take a whole SWAT crew to smuggle $1 billion, and you'd need a whole fleet of freight trucks to ship $1 trillion. The nation's debt measures up to the Statue of Liberty, while $114.5 trillion-the amount of money needed to keep Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions afloat-soars past the WTC towers. In short, "it is the money USA knows it will not have to pay all its bills." Way to be a bad news bear. But not all is lost. We can't even comprehend that much money, so why not have fun with this? We did some rough calculations using the infographic's metrics (the square footage of 1 standard size pallet = $100 million) and drew some estimates measuring some of architecture's greatest accomplishments were worth their weight in greenbacks. The base of the Great Pyramid of Giza could pack $4,640,950,000,000. A fire sale of the Acropolis site, as German politicians incredulously suggested to Greece, would yield a sum of $2,633,700,000,000. Mies's Seagram Building would land the city $6,530,600,000,000, and the site of Le Corbusier's Capitol Complex at Chandigarh would accommodate $78,230,200,000,000. The most expensive painting ever sold Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948, which sold for $140 million, would span $261,224,489. Fun, right? $100 <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-hundred_ dollars-100_USD.jpg> $10 Thousand <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-ten_thou sand_dollars-10000_USD.jpg> $1 Million <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-one_mill ion_dollars-1000000_USD.jpg> $100 Million <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-one_hund red_million_dollars-100000000_USD.jpg> $1 Billion <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-one_bill ion_dollars-1000000000_USD-600x399.jpg> $1 Trillion <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-one_tril lion_dollars-1000000000000_USD-600x323.jpg> Bad News <http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wtfnoway-one_tril lion_dollars-1000000000000_USD-b.jpg> [via wtfnoway <http://www.wtfnoway.com/> ] http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/26262/were-screwed/ __._,_.___ Reply to <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20We%92re%20Screwed%2E> sender | Reply <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20We%92re%20Screwed%2 E> to group | Reply <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TriumphOfContent/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJyajBrMWc5BF 9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3OTM4NjM5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRtc2dJZAMyMzgwMg RzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzEzMTE5MDE0ODU-?act=reply&messageNum=23802> via web post | Start <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TriumphOfContent/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmM2pjNzJpBF 9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3OTM4NjM5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsaw NudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMTE5MDE0ODU-> a New Topic Messages <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TriumphOfContent/message/23802;_ylc=X3oDMTM3c 2licWg5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3OTM4NjM5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRtc2dJZ AMyMzgwMgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzMTE5MDE0ODUEdHBjSWQDMjM4MDI-> in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TriumphOfContent;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdTYyNGhnBF9TAzk 3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE3OTM4NjM5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2h wBHN0aW1lAzEzMTE5MDE0ODU-> Your Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJlaTh0MnZvBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzE3O TM4NjM5BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTMxMTkwMTQ4N Q--> Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Change Delivery Format: Traditional> , Daily <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Email Delivery: Digest> Digest . Unsubscribe <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> . Terms of Use <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=17938639/grpspId=1705063985/msgI d=23802/stime=1311901485/nc1=1/nc2=2/nc3=3> __,_._,___ !DSPAM:2676,4e32073740302462494453!
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