Interesting site for Optical Types

**chip anderson** · 07-28-2003, 08:56 PM

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...su/powersof10/

**JRS** · 07-29-2003, 01:49 AM

That is a very humbling set of slides. Great stuff!

**Shutterbug** · 07-29-2003, 07:17 AM

I love astronomy and have this stuff as my screen saver :0).
Here's a mind boggler for you:

$1,000 stacked up to a million dollars is about 4 inches tall.
Continue stacking to a trillion dollars and you have a stack about 63 MILES tall! Now, in your mind, make 6 stacks like that, and cash each bill in for ones (!). Now stretch each bill 1 mile long and put them all end to end. That is roughly one light year.
Kind of shuts your mind down, doesn't it? :0)