Got this earlier tonight and thought it was interesting and shocking. I did check it out on snopes, and the math isn't too far off. Caveat: I didn't write it or do any addition myself. Feel free to ignore if you've seen it before, I hadn't. 8) How many zeros in a billion? This is too true to be funny.The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases. A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it. While this thought is still fresh in our brain... let's take a look at .... It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division. Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently askingCongressfor 250 BILLION DOLLARS [FONT=Times New Roman]to rebuild . Interesting number...[/FONT] what does it mean? A. [FONT=Times New Roman]Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of (every man, woman, and child) [/FONT] you each get $516,528. B. Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in , your home gets $1,329,787.C. Or... if you are a family of four.... your family gets $2,066,012. , D..C HELLO! Are all your calculators broken?? http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/billions.asp
How about a TRILLION? Here is an excerpt of the explantion of a TRILLION(1,000,000,000,000) from Neal Boortz. Get used to this the govt runs on trillions, billions are chump change: So .. just how much is a trillion? Sure, there are plenty of zeros, twelve, to be exact – but that doesn't begin to explain things. So let me take a stab at it. Have you ever asked for something from someone and had them reply "Just give me 5 minutes." Fine --- but what if he says "Just give me 1,000 minutes ... or a million? Or a billion?" Here's the breakdown: 1000 minutes would equal just less than 17 hours. You'll get what you asked for before the day is out. 100,000 minutes would be almost 70 days. Check back with your friend later. One million minutes? Look for whatever you need in just less than 2 years. One billion minutes? That's going to take a while. Try 1,900 years. One trillion minutes? Well, today is 2008. Your wishes will be fulfilled in the year 1,903,377, unless your friend steps things up a bit. That's 1,901,369 years from now. Let us know how that works out for you.
