What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

A billion dollars... A hundred billion dollars... Eight hundred billion dollars... One TRILLION dollars... What does that look like?

We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1,5 cm 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 little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...


TRILLION!? What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros: 1 000 000 000 000. So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about. (And notice those pallets are double stacked.)

[Source: Internet]

Snow is here!

Even at high altitude, snow is something special in Cyprus. But this February was cold and full of rains. So admiring the snow on Troodos became a national hobby.

Same age, different destiny

It is around year 100 BC.

Somewhere in Europe: The Getic-Dacian tribes are reunited under the leadership of Dacian King Burebista. The king fights and plots against the looming danger coming from the Roman Empire. Over the next 38 years Dacia expands herself over a vast territory - the present Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and parts of Serbia. However, in 44 BC Burebista's archenemy, Caesar, is assassinated. The Roman threat apparently gone for good, the need for a strong leader vanishes and Burebista is assassinated himself several months later.

Somewhere in America: A seed comes into the ground. Over the next 2100 years a tree goes up from it. It is a sequoia.

Giant sequoias are the largest living things on earth, and are among the oldest; a tree like Yosemite's Grizzly Giant - a 30-foot-thick monster that's 2,100 years old and stands as tall as a 20-story building - has survived major climate vacillations and vast change to the species with which it shares the forest. This tree lives among the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, near the Wawona region of Yosemite, just inside the southern border of the park.

Love Story

If you are for the first time on the way from Limassol to Paphos (or from Paphos to Limassol) do not take the highway. The old road is more beautiful. One of the famous places is Petra Tou Romiou, the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and Beauty... (For sure, after first ride, you’ll never take the highway.)

Dialog and Peace

We need to understand each other, to respect each other, to change a little bit and to find a common path.

If we are not willing to change at all and we want to impose our way of thinking, we’ll not go anywhere in peace.

Listen, understand, communicate, respect!

A question for today

Q> Which is more dangerous science or religion?

A> Science. (Even in the religion's dispute, the people are killed by weapons developed by science.)