Just how much is a billion?

Chula Vista · 10-20-2014, 04:18 PM

If you stacked up 1 billion pennies the stack would be about 944 miles tall and would weigh 2,790 tons.

If you started counting the seconds right now you'd get to a billion 31.7 years from now.

If you took a billion steps and averaged 2 feet per step you will have traveled a distance equal to circling the planet over 15 times.

Next?

The Batlord · 10-20-2014, 04:25 PM

If you spent a billion dollars you would get a billion dollars worth of stuff.

If you took a billion one-dollar bills and laid them across the Earth, a lot of them would probably get stolen.

RoxyRollah · 10-20-2014, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

If you spent a billion dollars you would get a billion dollars worth of stuff.

If you took a billion one-dollar bills and laid them across the Earth, a lot of them would probably get stolen.

Or stacked up you'd get a stairway to heaven.

Pet_Sounds · 10-20-2014, 04:49 PM

If you had a billion dollars, you'd be rich.

**Frownland** · 10-20-2014, 04:50 PM

If you stacked a billion Marillion albums on tip of each other you'd have a billion reasons to stab your ears out.

Chula Vista · 10-20-2014, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

If you had a billion dollars, you'd be rich.

I'd say mega-rich! If you had a billion and started spending $50,000 a day, every day, you wouldn't run out of money for almost 55 years.

I'm listening to Season's End at the moment....

Mondo Bungle · 10-20-2014, 04:53 PM

If you wrote a song that is a billion years long, then you'd need a billion of them to be as long as a Bull Of Heaven song

Machine · 10-20-2014, 04:53 PM

If you put nine zeros after a one you get a billion.

#TheMoreYouKnow

The Batlord · 10-20-2014, 04:56 PM

If you had a billion and started spending $50,000 a day, every day, then you're probably an *******.

Trollheart · 10-20-2014, 05:07 PM

If someone wants to give me a billion Euro, thanks! But it still isn't enough to make me listen to Captain Beefheart again! ZING! That's for the Marillion quip, Frownie!

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Just how much is a billion? If you stacked up 1 billion pennies the stack would be about 944 miles tall and would weigh 2,790 tons. If you started counting the seconds right now you'd get to a billion 31.7 years from now. If you took a billion steps and averaged 2 feet per step you will have traveled a distance equal to circling the planet over 15 times. Next? __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,489	If you had a billion dollars, you'd be rich. __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	If you stacked a billion Marillion albums on tip of each other you'd have a billion reasons to stab your ears out. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	If you put nine zeros after a one you get a billion. #TheMoreYouKnow __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,971	If someone wants to give me a billion Euro, thanks! But it still isn't enough to make me listen to Captain Beefheart again! ZING! That's for the Marillion quip, Frownie! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018