How much is 700 billion?

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/09/25/grasping-700-billion/ Would buy a lot of flashlights

Keep comments fun...no politics please.

This reminds me of these lines from the first Star Wars movie:

Luke Skywalker: She's rich.
Han Solo: [interested] Rich?
Luke Skywalker: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be...
Han Solo: What?
Luke Skywalker: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!
Han Solo: I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.

dont really like their facts/comparisons, i like to think of it as:

$700,000,000,000 = 80 * (365 * 23,972,602)

if you had $700 billion dollars, you could spend ~$24 million dollars a day for the next 80 years.

I'd have trouble spending $24 million in my entire life, never mind in one day.

HoopleHead said:

if you had $700 billion dollars, you could spend ~$24 million dollars a day for the next 80 years.

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Not a problem for my ex-GF.

"Stacking dollar coins would produce a pile 435,000 miles high, well beyond the distance to the Moon. And still no one would want them."
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"Federal expenditures to fight the entire World War II and run the rest of the country, adjusted to the 2000 dollars, were only $1.2 trillion."

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/09/25/grasping-700-billion/

700 billion would be almost enough to solve CPF's server busy problem!:duck:

is the number of lumens the sun bathes the earth in on a partly cloudy day.

Ups didin't read that "no politics please."
sorry, please ignore that post...

HoopleHead said:

dont really like their facts/comparisons, i like to think of it as:

$700,000,000,000 = 80 * (365 * 23,972,602)

if you had $700 billion dollars, you could spend ~$24 million dollars a day for the next 80 years.

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oh my goodness......!
i never thought of thinking about it that way before.....

imagine the amount of lights you could buy.....

Crenshaw

And the amount of flashlight companies you could buy .

700 billion USD? Think of it as 100 Euros.

That's the current price of a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe dollars, hang on a second, nope, it's double that now.

Is enough to properly fund a space program for the next 10 or 20 years.

js said:

700 billion USD? Think of it as 100 Euros.

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Yes, yes...but thats tomorrow. Live for today, for tomorrow we ...eat soup. Mmmm chicken noodle...oh yeaaa.

HoopleHead said:

dont really like their facts/comparisons, i like to think of it as:

$700,000,000,000 = 80 * (365 * 23,972,602)

if you had $700 billion dollars, you could spend ~$24 million dollars a day for the next 80 years.

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Cost:

$8,000,000 per hour for 10 years....not including interest...

Badbeams3 said:

Yes, yes...but thats tomorrow. Live for today, for tomorrow we ...eat soup. Mmmm chicken noodle...oh yeaaa.

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Oh Yeah!!!

$700 Billion is just about enough to keep a car on the road for a year in this country.

Darkpower said:

Not a problem for my ex-GF.

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We all have that problem at some point, glad to hear shes an ex now!

It's 1 million a day for nearly 2000 years.

how about 292275574 Polarion PH50 or PF50 lights?

thats approximately 1870563674321 lumen if you turn them on all at once....