Just how big is 700 billion? toss in some ideas

[Inchworm]

I keep hearing this number mentioned on the news like it's Billy Bob lending Ralph five bucks. The concept of one billion items has been messing with my brain. (oh yea.. I had to write it somewhere so I could get teh ebil numbers outta my brain)

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If the stuff I found was right...

There are about 103 million households in the US. That is about $6,800 to every house in America.
http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf

It would take 4,550,000 gallons of rice to contain 700 billion grains of rice.
http://www.monroecounty.gov/Image/9.How.Big.is.a.Billion_000<1>.pdf
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monroecounty.gov/Image/9.How.Big.is.a.Billion_000<1>.pdf


One billion hours is about 115,000 years, so 700 billion hours would be 80,500,000 years.
...700 billion minutes is about 1,341,666 years? 700 billion seconds is about 22,361 years ago?!? ok.. I'll stop (kind of a funny article used as reference :silly: )
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=523

Got any comparisons to 700 billion?

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[struggle4progress]

1. If you spent $1000 every second for twenty-two years, you'd still have over $5 billion left over

[bluesbassman]

4. Isn't that what Michael Jackson, Elton John, and MC Hammer did?

Except I think they all ran out of dough. :)

[Inchworm]

15. That's some fast spending

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[Fire Walk With Me]

2. The financial sector bailout could pay for a lot of education, educators, and educatory supplies.

But an educated generation might question republican ideals, or worse, see through them and work against them, so we can't have that...

That amount of money would pay for relief for many in poverty, and to house, feed, and uplift any homeless who are willing to take advantage of it. It could change our inner cities, stimulate new business, create small business opportunities for the poor, and build communities.

Of course, what we get instead is a giant Silverado.

Oh, Neil Bush. Haha, that's right. There was a Bush involved in the same sort of thing. Nice how the Bush family profits from creating disaster, for decades and decades.

Who ends up controlling the new financial infrastructures? Is this another letting it happen on purpose in order to take control of the ruins, to "solve" the problem? Disaster capitalists want to know.

[Inchworm]

16. Kind of the thought I had

I started by looking up households just for shits and giggles ten had concerns at what the stats considered households.

It is a lot of money to help corporations who spent more than they are worth imo. I tried that and learned my lesson. It wasn't bailed out either hehe. It still is a plague on me.

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[Inchworm]

17. oops

trigger happy.

dupe

[Fire Walk With Me]

44. Not a problem, I wasn't into the spirit of the thing.

"it could buy many educators, to the moon and back." Now am I part of the thread?

[doc03]

3. How about 700 billion one dollar bills laid end to end

is 277 times the average distance from earth to the moon.

[Inchworm]

18. The moon to earth one had to come in play

It was one I looked up and started doing figures for, but got sleepy.

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[Connonym]

5. $700,000,000,000.00

$700,000,000,000.00 has more impact than $700 billion don't you think? All those frakkin' zeroes

[Inchworm]

19. I agree

hec.. my regular desk calculator couldnt handle all the zeros. I had to hunt my old calculator :D

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[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Like 15 Bill Gates.

[Inchworm]

13. whoa...

That has impact :)

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[pokerfan]

7. The number of miles in twenty round trips to Pluto

The number of drops of water in 770,585 gallons or about 85 tanker trucks.

[Inchworm]

20. Coool!

I love the drop of water comparison.

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[swag]

8. Big enough to clog any thirteenth floor toilet, no paper added.

[Inchworm]

23. lol

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[swag]

9. Almost enough to pay off 1/6th of what GWBush has added to the National Debt so far

with his stunning record of fiscal incontinence.

[Inchworm]

24. *phew*

So glad you didn't get that other big number in my head.

$1,000,000,000,000.00

:o

[RadiationTherapy]

10. Seven Hundred Thousand One Million Dollar Checks.

Seven Hundred Thousand households lives changed forever overnight.

[Inchworm]

25. I'd love to win that lottery

Sad thing is that one doof would distribute to 699 thousand people who already had it and 1 who needed it. The one would be the news story. :D

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[elshiva]

11. Rilly, rilly beeg.

[Inchworm]

26. They occasionally do say that

on radio when they drop this number.

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[VenusRising]

12. How's this?

http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/30280/how_much_is_700_billion

It is one third of the total amount of money received by the federal government in 2007, including social security, income tax, corporate tax, and all other receipts.

It is $140 billion more than has been spent on the Iraq war since the invasion.

It is $120 billion more than that spent on social security benefits.

It is almost 3 billion nonrefundable bus fares from Durham to San Francisco, leaving tomorrow.

It is nine times the amount spent on education in 2007.

It could pay for 2,000 McDonald's apple pies for every single American.

It is 35 times the amount spent on all foreign aid in most years.

It is more zeros than the calculator that comes with my computer allows.

It is 7,000 times bigger than the Sierra club’s yearly budget.

According to some estimates, it is three times what it would cost, over 10 years, to reduce oil dependency by 20%.

Its over twice the amount of all money given to all charitable organizations in the United States in any given year.

It is more than $100 for every person in the world.

[Inchworm]

28. Yay!

A whole list to gaze at :P

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[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. 2000/per person in the US

[Inchworm]

30. Hehe

I was going to start with that number then realized how far $2k would go for the majority of people. I figured the "household" number would be larger.

You know.. I did find out that the common definition for household seemed to be "married" households. Then I got to thinking about those together who aren't allowed to get married. I had to dig a little deeper to find the number I used. Just another misrepresented population they use in common statistics I guess.

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[malta blue]

21. 70 more months in Iraq

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[Inchworm]

31. Gah!

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[arcadian]

22. It's the number of bacteria that inhabit your gut.

Good kind bacteria.

[Inchworm]

32. wow! really?

I didnt even think to go smaller.

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[DS1]

27. Twice the number of copycats posted in the lounge

[Inchworm]

33. That's hella!

:)

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[av8rdave]

29. That's something like 500 space shuttle launches

[Inchworm]

34. Seems to be a costly endeavor

put that way :P

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[pokerfan]

47. $700B = enough to fund NASA until 2048

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. As big as Oprah's ego, and inversely as big as Tom Cruise's talent

[Inchworm]

39. Weee!

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[DS1]

36. 70 Space Elevators. According to the Japanese

http://io9.com/5052993/japan-prepares-to-board-the-space-elevator

[Inchworm]

40. That's a coolo idea

I don't logically see it as possible, but they did say it would require many breakthroughs.

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[DS1]

37. 1,452 CERN Large Hadron Colliders

46 Boston Big Digs
233 Freedom Towers
Rebuild everything damaged by Katrina 3.5 times

[Inchworm]

42. You are a vault of knowledge

:D

[meegbear]

38. 700 billion monkeys in front of 700 billion typewriters ...

how long before one typed Hamlet?

[DS1]

41. At a dollar an hour, it would be a quick experiment

:D

[Inchworm]

43. That math is too far gone in my head

It is figureoutable though :rofl:

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[old mark]

45. Over $2300 from each person in the US. nt

[Inchworm]

46. One can dream

:)

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