A trillion is so large it feels made up. That's the problem when talking about our national debt. 1 million seconds is 11.5 days. 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years. What about 1 trillion seconds?? Stacey Vanek Smith

@svaneksmith I love it when Pluto thrusts it's way back into relevance.

@svaneksmith 31,700 years?

@svaneksmith Forty trillion seconds amounts to approximately 1.27 million years. #nerdalert

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@svaneksmith In STEM trillion is a trivial number. A trillion kilometer can be traversed in just 38 days A trillion hydrogen atoms do not weigh even one gram.

@svaneksmith It doesn’t feel made up at all.The politicians in this country have spent and spent for decades.They pillaged SS and act like SS is not viable, they took all the money and invested it in fucking bonds. If people don’t understand numbers it only shows the stupidity of this country

@svaneksmith Someone trying to spend $40 trillion would need 1.27 million years to do it if they spent a dollar every second.

@svaneksmith Your great grand children’s children won’t be alive to know the answers.

@svaneksmith And there's nothing there worth buying, even if we made it.

@svaneksmith Alexander Hamilton, in his first report on public finances in 1790: “In countries in which the national debt is properly funded and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money”.

@svaneksmith 1 trillion seconds equals 31,709 yrs. Humans have only been writing about 5400yrs.