A million seconds is 11.5 days. What is a trillion seconds?

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A million seconds is 11.5 days. What is a trillion seconds?

Postby Tim Elston » February 5th, 2009, 5:37 pm

1 million seconds = 11.5 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years

Anyone care to guess or calculate how many years a trillion seconds is? (This is for a sense of perspective on a trillion dollars.)
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Postby forestwalker » February 5th, 2009, 5:38 pm

32,000 years

that's a lot of dough
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Postby Tim Elston » February 5th, 2009, 5:41 pm

forestwalker wrote:32,000 years

that's a lot of dough


That's right.

1 million seconds = 11.5 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,711 years

I saw the rounded figures at CNN.com and confirmed them with my calculator.
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Postby MacUser » February 5th, 2009, 6:12 pm

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Postby TW » February 5th, 2009, 6:36 pm

Tim, you failed math! :lol:

1,000,000 sec = 11.57407407 days
1.000.000,000 sec = 31.68808781 years
1,000,000,000,000 sec = 31,688.08781 years

You failed to consider decimal fractions smaller than a tenth, and leap years.

Not quite as bad as your "example." :roll:


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Postby dolfan » February 5th, 2009, 6:50 pm

1 Trillion $1 bills, stacked, would reach roughly 1/4 of the way to the moon. 67,800+/- miles. The moon is 238,800+/- miles from Earth.
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Postby Jennifer Smith » February 6th, 2009, 5:23 pm

TW wrote:Tim, you failed math! :lol:

1,000,000 sec = 11.57407407 days
1.000.000,000 sec = 31.68808781 years
1,000,000,000,000 sec = 31,688.08781 years

You failed to consider decimal fractions smaller than a tenth, and leap years.

Not quite as bad as your "example." :roll:


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Postby Steve » February 6th, 2009, 8:38 pm

The best example of a trillion I heard recently is that if you were to spend 1 million dollars per DAY, it would take you 2,737.90926 years to reach a trillion dollars.

If you started spending the day Christ was born, you would still have over 700 YEARS to spend to get to a trillion!

WOW! :?
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Postby Full Quiver » February 7th, 2009, 6:35 am

Steve, one must factor in the serious inflation rate that lies ahead. With that in mind it will take far less time right?
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Postby Mike Vande » February 8th, 2009, 4:08 pm

Steve wrote:If you started spending the day Christ was born, you would still have over 700 YEARS to spend to get to a trillion!

WOW! :?


Our government can knock off a trillion or two after lunch on a Friday.
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Postby MacUser » February 8th, 2009, 4:27 pm

Mike Vande wrote:Our government can knock off a trillion or two after lunch on a Friday.


haha :lol: so true Mike.. so SADLY true. :cry:
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