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The Height of Money
Don't want to turn this political, but thought the height of the money spent on the war on terror in 1 dollar bills stacked is high enough to jump off

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

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Three-hundred-fifteen billion dollars ...

Update : July 21, 2006

This is the amount of money the US has allocated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be spent by September 30, 2006, the end of the fiscal year. And the Senate is working on a spending bill that will add another $50 billion more in spending for 2007.

This pile is 125 feet wide, 200 feet deep, and 450 feet tall.

450 feet is the height of a 38-story building. It's the hieght of the Millenium Wheel in London. It is also the height of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas and the Louisiana State Capitol Building.

If you were to stack the money in a single stack, your stack would be 19,887 miles tall, enough to wrap the Moon at its equator almost 3 times.
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Re: [leroydb] The Height of Money
Well, I jumped the Louisiana State Capitol Building.
Millenium Wheel has been jumped, But what about the Luxor?
Take care,
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Uncle Sam's Endless Debt
Hell man, if we jumped the national debt
we'd probably need oxygen and space suits Crazy
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Re: [GreenMachine] Uncle Sam's Endless Debt
That would be cool, but we'd need to ask maggot for airspace clearance Shocked
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Re: [base283] The Height of Money
Isn't the Luxor a giant pyramid? Ouch!