A Shot!

So a while back I asked a question, not really expecting to get an answer. Well, I got up today and was checking through things emails, deviantArt and such. A friend of mine on DA gave my question a shot. *chuckles* Thank you, Rick. :)

Did you know that in North America alone, that around 1.4 billion cotton t-shirts are sound ever year? Talk about another big number that's hard to comprehend. I don't know about you but it's hard for me to wrap my head around something like that. If you took 1.4 billion t-shirts out into a field and piled them all into one big pile how big do you think it would be? If someone who knows how to do things mathematically and wants to give it a shot, please do.

" So... If you take 1.4 billion T-shirts and pile them up, figuring you can pile (my wild guess) 3 T-shirts per inch, the answer is 7365 miles.

1.4 billion T-shirts is ~4.5 T-shirts per person in the US.  

Hey, you're welcome. They'd make a tall stack, which would reach into "medium earth orbit", higher than the Hubble telescope. If it fell over, it would stretch farther than New York to Beijing." V.


I heard a guy give a lecture one time about people and their environments and... He got to talk about numbers somehow and how we have a hard time comprehending really large numbers or distances. This is rather like that for me. It's like whoa that's big and yet I completely and totally can't even picture it (accept in cartoon style animation ^^: Little people running away, random chicken little moment, "The Sky is falling!" and so forth.)