You know their size without busting out a ruler. Fun and interesting: occupy a geek for hours by asking how many TIE fighters would be needed to take out the Starship Enterprise. Interactive Sense of Scale Flash App. A fantastic way to visualize the relative sizes of objects. Well, instead of visualizing having 10x your money, imagine that things cost 10 times less. A new laptop? A new porsche? Only 6, dollars.
A really nice house? Try to imagine having things cost , times less and , is a pretty large number. A laptop would be a few pennies. A porsche would be about 60 cents. Sometimes, a different type of scale may be useful. I responded to this question in and to a related questions in and using information from the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, G.
Merriam Co. I was unaware that in the government of the UK switched to the American system. The United States national debt is currently just over 19 trillion dollars. OK, so what does a trillion look like? The problem with most answers to questions like this is that they try to it into perspective by relating it to things normal people have no perspective for.
For instance, did you know that,. One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills. The Megapenny project uses something a lot more common to most of us, a penny.
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