What ELSE $250 billion on the Iraq war could've purchased
It's been ages since I linked to Something Awful, but this article is as funny as it is depressing.
Since $250,000,000,000 is well over the amount where our actual comprehension takes a powder and it's just "a vast sum," the author of the piece has decided to give it "The Moon and Back" treatment. Which is a term I just made up to describe examples that allow us to get a handle on concepts like how much Spam is eaten every day by putting them in terms of laying the cans end-to-end and seeing how far they'd go. Moving on.
Some highlights/lowpoints:
*298,412,466 Sony Wega 23" LCD HDTVs
*Full ride 4-year college scholarships for 7,260,000 students
*Give every adult man and woman in Iraq 16,000 dollars and a plane ticket to the United States
Since $250,000,000,000 is well over the amount where our actual comprehension takes a powder and it's just "a vast sum," the author of the piece has decided to give it "The Moon and Back" treatment. Which is a term I just made up to describe examples that allow us to get a handle on concepts like how much Spam is eaten every day by putting them in terms of laying the cans end-to-end and seeing how far they'd go. Moving on.
Some highlights/lowpoints:
*298,412,466 Sony Wega 23" LCD HDTVs
*Full ride 4-year college scholarships for 7,260,000 students
*Give every adult man and woman in Iraq 16,000 dollars and a plane ticket to the United States
posted by Matt Sandwich | 8:31 PM
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