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Re: Image comments for a trillion dollars
Posted by: pro_junior
Date: 12/03/2009 10:49PM
While you will never see a trillion dollars in person (nature's way of protecting your sanity amidst the bailout), computers can do the job without breaking a sweat—or worrying about retirement.

This particular rendering was made through Google SketchUp, Google's 3D modeling software. Measurements were taken of a $10,000 stack of $100 bills (just half an inch thick!) and pretty much multiplied from there using simple geometry. In that trillion dollar shot, each pallet holds $100 million...and the pallets are double stacked.

As for that red blob on the left? It's a human.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5168339/to-conceptualize-a-trillion-dollars-we-require-computer-visualization

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