one trillion

In light of the stimulus package that is being pushed through congress, I thought I would write a fact that I learned a little while back. The package is worth almost 1 trillion dollars. To put that in perspective, 1 billion seconds ago was around Nixon's time in office. One trillion seconds ago is about 30,000BC (or BCE, whatever it is these days). So if you make 1 dollar every second ($3600 an hour!) you would have had to have been born in 30,000BC to make 1 trillion dollars. That's a lot of money our government is about to spend!

30,000BC according to wikipedia is when the bow and arrow where invented...and Neanderthals are not extinct yet.