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14-FEB-2009

78.7 trillion pennys

I 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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Coleen Perilloux Landry15-Feb-2009 03:33
Laugh out loud, though it really is not a laughing matter. Beautiful shot of the buildings and monuments against the beautiful sky.