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14-FEB-2009

2 13 09, 78.7 trillion pennys2.jpg

Setting a good behavioral model for the senior class trip.

was in Washington on the mall during the vote, pictured here.
Setting a good example for my daughter's senior class trip.
I'm pretty excited.
No opinion. Just excited,

Somebody check my math here.

$787,000,000,000
78,000,000,000,000 pennys

a penny is 1.5mm thick
A 121,985,000,000,000mm roll of pennys.

121,985,000 kilometer stack of pennys!

The moon's average distance is 382,500 km from earth.
The congressional bailout package would stack pennys from the earth to the moon.....
.....er......

! 319 times the distance from the earth to the moon.
In pennys.

Well, that's barely over 80% of the way to the sun from where I sit.


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petesie16-Feb-2009 02:37
He definitely did not learn it from his Mom.....not the math part either. Nothing has changed.....when you were five years old you asked your doctor how tall a stack of one million germs would be......I don't remember her answer! By the way......was Lauren mortified? Looks like a wonderful time.
Coleen Perilloux Landry15-Feb-2009 15:35
You're really good at that; standing on your head, I mean. Did you learn that from your Mom?
Guest 15-Feb-2009 05:34
I weigh 265lb and although I am in impeccable shape considering I had cancer less than a year ago, at 50 I'd be reluctant to put my neck on the line like that. Sorry, I just had to say that.