Cyndi's Two Cents

Keep it in perspective

Commentary.

Thirty-five trillion seconds is about 1.1 million years. To put it another way, if you started counting at the beginning of the Stone Age, you’d still be counting.

$35 trillion in $100 bills would weigh approximately 770,000 tons. This is roughly the weight of 200,000 cars.

The average distance from Earth to the Sun is about ninety-three million miles. At thirty-five trillion miles, you could make approximately 376 round trips between Earth and the Sun.

An Olympic-sized swimming pool holds about 660,000 gallons. Thirty-five trillion gallons would fill approximately fifty-three million such pools.

NASA’s budget for 2024 is about $27 billion. $35 trillion is more than 1,000 times NASA’s annual budget.

If $35 trillion were stacked in $100 bills, the stack would reach about 2.2 million miles high, which is more than eight times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

As of 2024, the world’s population is around eight billion people. Thirty-five trillion people would be over 4,375 times the current global population.

The Great Salt Lake, one of the largest saline lakes in the U.S., has a maximum volume of around twenty-seven million acre-feet (or about eighty-eight billion gallons). Thirty-five trillion gallons would be enough to fill the Great Salt Lake approximately 397 times.

Assuming a rough estimate that an adult human consumes about 2,000 calories per day, thirty-five trillion people would require seventy trillion calories per day. To put that in perspective, it is about four hundred million times the current global daily food supply.

Assuming it takes one second per dollar bill, it would take over 1,100,000 years to count to thirty-five trillion dollars.

The U.S. uses about 410 billion gallons of water per day. Thirty-five trillion gallons is enough to meet this daily consumption for about 85 years.

The world uses about 1.1 trillion gallons of water annually for all purposes. Thirty-five trillion gallons would cover the global water use for about 32 years.

If you had $35 trillion and spent $1 million every day, it would take you over 95,000 years to spend it all.

The Empire State Building weighs approximately 365,000 tons (730 million pounds). Thirty-five trillion pounds would be about forty-eight million times the weight of the Empire State Building. If a typical car weighs about 3,000 pounds, thirty-five trillion pounds would be equivalent to the weight of about 11.7 billion cars.

Thirty-five trillion gallons is more than fifty-three times the volume of the Great Lakes combined.

Thirty-five trillion grains of sand would fill about 1,400 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

If you spread thirty-five trillion grains of sand over an area, assuming each grain covers about one square millimeter, it would cover around 35,000 square meters, or roughly 8.6 acres. This is about the size of six football fields.

If you divided $35 trillion equally among the approximately eight billion people on Earth, each person would get around $4,375.

As of August 19, 2024, the U.S. national debt was $35.18 trillion, which is the total amount of money our federal government has borrowed to cover its expenses over time. 

Just keeping things in perspective. . .

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