


Is this the largest organism in the world? This 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) site in eastern Oregon had a contiguous growth of mycelium before logging roads cut through it. Estimated at 1,665 football fields in size and 2,200 years old, this one fungus has killed the forest above it several times over, and in so doing has built deeper soil layers that allow the growth of ever-larger stands of trees. Mushroom-forming forest fungi are unique in that their mycelial mats can achieve such massive proportions.
—Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running
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February 12, 2009, Stockholm
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...
And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...
Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
Scroll down...
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.
Source: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
La cultura del terror /2
La extorsión,
el insulto,
la amenaza,
el coscorrón,
la bofetada,
la paliza,
el azote,
el cuarto oscuro,
la ducha helada,
el ayuno obligatorio,
la comida obligatoria,
la prohibición de salir,
la prohibición de decir lo que se piensa,
la prohibición de hacer lo que se siente
y la humillación pública
son
algunos de los métodos de penitencia y tortura tradicionales en la vida de familia. Para castigo de la des-obediencia y escarmiento de la libertad, la tradición familiar perpetúa una cultura del terror que humilla a la mujer, enseña a los hijos a mentir y contagia la peste del miedo.
- Los derechos humanos tendrían que empezar por casa? -me comenta, en Chile, Andrés Domínguez.
Sí, ya existe. Un físico norte americano creó la versión "casera" de la tecnología la probada en el Instituto Albert Einstein de ...