November 12, 2009

Trillion Dollars is equivalent to ten billion hundred dollar bills stacked 678 miles tall...

Our nation's deficit of billion of trillions must be put in perspective:

One trillion dollars is represented as $1,000,000,000,000.

Divide that by the hundred dollar bill ($100). For those quick minded math people, you drop 2 zeros.

1,000,000,000,000 / 100 = 10,000,000,000

This means there are TEN BILLION hundred dollar bills in a trillion dollars.

To put that in perspective, the US bill note is about .0043 inches thick. This stack of ten billion hundred dollar bills would be 43,000,000 inches tall. That's three million five hundred eighty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three feet tall. Hard to grasp...scale it up to miles and you get a stack more than 678 miles tall. On it's side, that would be a continuous line of bills stretching from Los Angeles, Ca nearly to Salt Lake City, UT! 


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Inner peace is the key.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility. In that state of mind you can deal with situations with calmness and reason, while keeping your inner happiness. That is very important. Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.
     
  ~The Dalai Lama

one hundred billion trillion Earth-like planets...

There could be one hundred billion trillion Earth-like planets in space, making it "inevitable" that extraterrestrial life exists, according to a leading astronomer.


November 10, 2009

As long as space endures, may I abide to dispel the misery of the world.

For as long as space endures, And for as long as living beings remain, Until then may I, too, abide To dispel the misery of the world.
     
  ~The Dalai Lama