01 February 2010

Trillion

A million seconds is 13 days.
A billion seconds is 31 days.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

Sickening.

8 comments:

Susan said...

87 years?
Hey, aren't you glad he CARES? Think what it would be like if he wasn't trying to lower our taxes and he'p us.

I love the pictures of the kids!

Erin said...

Susan, I typed 31,688 DAYS first by accident. I meant 31,688 YEARS.

He should care.

Susan said...

Oh goodness. You're just making it worse.

Cate said...

*sticking fingers in ears*

Two words: precious metals. At least, that's what Joe thinks.

Erin said...

Will precious metals buy you food? I'm not sure.

I think land is the answser. A place to grow vegetables and graze a cow or two.

Meghan said...

I don't even know what a trillion is. Is it a million billions? It's unfathomable to me. I think that's a good thing.

Susan said...

It's a million millions. Or a thousand billions. When Audrey gets older, read her "How Much Is a Million?" Great picture book. It begins to give you a smidge of an idea of how HUGE a million is. And then to think of a trillion....? It is unfathomable!

Anonymous said...

"Will precious metals buy you food? I'm not sure."

Hopefully, it won't come to that. Metals are convertible into any currency. So if the greenback continues to decline in value you can use metals as a way to prevent the a corresponding decline of your liquid assets. And if things get really bad you can trade with metals - silver most easily.

- Joe