Hi Dave... Not sure where this came from but at least one calculation error in
either time or history is quite shocking in that last line:
"66 Billion years ago Jesus was alive..."
I mean, I understand the belief of God's the eternal existence and that of the
Holy Trinity, but I'm not sure that's what was meant by this author. Ya kno?
Very interesting, though... I try similar calculations to get my biology
students to understand such large numbers. We have approx. 3 trillion cells
making up our body each containing 3.5 billion base pairs making up just our
DNA... and that's only a small portion of us!!
Best to ya!
--Tod
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>
> Following describes a Trillion !
> To start, take a dollar bill that is 6 inches long, 2.5 inches wide and
> 1/200 of an inch thick. Two hundred of these stacked up would be 1 inch
> high.
> 700 would be 3.5 inches, 700 thousand would be 3,500 inches or 292 feet.
> 700
> million is 3 1/2 million inches or 55 miles, and 700 Billion is 55 thousand
> miles - or more than twice around the earth at the equator. A Trillion
> dollars stacked flat against each other would reach around the earth 3
> times.
> If we look at volume - a briefcase 18 by 15 by 4 inches would hold about
> 15,000 dollar bills. 750 thousand dollars would fit into 50 briefcases,
> 750
> million in 50 thousand cases, and 750 billion would take 50 million cases.
> A
> 2,000 square foot house with 8 foot ceilings holds 16,000 cubic feet so 750
> million dollars would take approximately 0.8 houses and 750 billion dollars
> would fill 781 such houses. The square mile where I live in Phoenix holds
> about 1,000 such houses which could just barely hold 1 Trillion dollar
> bills.
> A football field 300 feet long and 150 feet wide would need to be packed
> just under 400 feet high with dollar bills to represent 1 Trillion dollars.
>
> A silver dollar weighs 0.017637 pounds so 57 of them would weigh a pound.
> 750 billion silver dollars would weigh 13 billion pounds or 6.6 million
> tons.
> A Trillion silver dollars would weigh 8.8 million tons. A diesel train
> locomotive weighs around 100 tons and a Sherman tank around 60 tons.
> The carnival conquest luxury ocean liner weighs 130,000 tons and will cost
> 963 million to build, so a Trillion silver dollars weighs as much as 67 such
> ocean liners and would pay to build 1,038 such ships.
> A thousand seconds ago is about 20 minutes ago. A million seconds ago is
> 278 hours or about 11 days.
> A billion seconds ago was 31 years (1977).
> 66 Billion years ago Jesus was alive and a Trillion seconds is 31.6 thousand
> years.!!
