re: My mind is blown over this: Big Numbers

Voyager1 is traveling at approximately 63000 miles per hour. It will take over 37000 years to reach the nearest star. Big damn place we live in

Another "Fun with numbers" thing I was posed with many years ago.

You are offered a job that will take 30 days to complete and your starting salary is $.01 on the first day and is doubled every day you work after that. Would you take that job???

It means that he should be taxed and his earnings and net value distributed to those that “need” it more than he does. Right?

$5.368 million after 30. The first day is $.01 so it’s actually $.02^29+$.01

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$5.368 million after 30. The first day is $.01 so it’s actually $.02^29+$.01

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I must have hit = on my calculator an extra time

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I’m a little jelly for sure, but give me $1MM/year in Houma I’d be good.

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bullshite. Nothing's ever good in Houma.

I figured out the cost of materials using pennies to build a tower to the moon. Don't remember what I was comparing to but I think it was Bezos worth at the time and I could build a tower six wide stacking pennies and it be less than he is worth.

to comment on the YT video i posted.

watch the end where he's on top of a pile of money w/ air force one. it's how big the pile of money was that represented the national debt at the time the video was made, which was 14.6 trillion dollars.

the national debt of 14.6 trillion is 3 times as heavy as the rms titanic, and at least as big as the iceberg that sunk it. our debt was as long as a football field, was 15 stories tall, and did weigh over 160 thousand tons, but since today our national debt is over 23.3 trillion dollars, which is 87 feet higher than the pile he's on, or a little over 6 stories higher, those numbers no longer apply.

by comparison, 1 million dollars in $100 bills weighs 22 pounds and takes up one half a cubic ft., and the government used to spend 7 of those every minute, with $3mm of that being borrowed. at the time of the video bill gates and warren buffett's combined worth was $106 billion, which would have been enough to run the government for less than 11 days.



and people actually believe these politicians when they say we can tax our way out of this problem that they created. "muuhhh the greedy evil 1 percenters are the reason the country is in debt. muuhhh, politician say the gates and buffets must pay their fair share." which is true, but the problem is that the politicians never make it to where it'll work out that way, and even if they did, the one percenters don't have enough to sustain the the bloated, convoluted police state that is alive and well and thriving -even if they gave all of their assets to the government. the mounds upon mounds of cash that they print and spend to make themselves even bigger is mind-blowing, and that growth and their attempt to sustain that growth of uncle sam has always been, and will always be, a burden that the common man and woman of the citizenry of this country have to carry on our backs...until we can't or won't anymore.

as an aside, here's a video of a guy counting from 1 to 100,000 in one take. it took him 40 straight hours to do it. youtube: 1 to 100k in 1 take.