REPOST---How much is a Trillion?

I read several other blogs with some regularity and this week ran across the following post by Rob Ketterling.

I shared this illustration from TIME magazine in church this weekend and it still is blowing my mind. A trillion dollars is a lot of money and hard to fully understand and yet the new stimulus plan with interest and continued payments will actually be over 2 trillion dollars! So what is a trillion dollars? Here's a good way to grasp how big it really is.
Using the time measurement of a second, how many days is one million seconds? Think about it, one million seconds, 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour 24 hours to a day. Give up? A million seconds is 11 and a half days. Now here's where it gets interesting, how much time is it in years for a billion seconds? This one is easy if you're a math nerd but for the rest of us, I'll give you the answer. It's 32 years worth of seconds! 32 years to live a billion seconds. Now for the biggie, how many years does it take to live a trillion seconds? I'm going to make you think for a second or two, or three...
It would take you being supernatural to live this one out because a trillion seconds would take you 32,000 years to live all of it! 32,000 years! And every year we fall trillions and trillions deeper in debt as a country.... I think we're in huge trouble when you think about it and I'm not sure who's going to pay for all this debt. I know we keep saying that our children and grandchildren will have to pay but the deficit is so huge, it may be our great, great, great grandchildren paying for this deficit. A trillion dollars seems a lot bigger than it did just a few hundred seconds ago!