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This video helped me visualize how big of a number 1 trillion is:

Current US debt is almost 34 trillions? https://www.usdebtclock.org/

So the debt is just a bit more than two of these microSD cards' worth of storage! I might have the unit conversion wrong, though.

If you were to count those at a rate of 1 per second, it would take about half a million years.

It’s enough to store the name of every human being that has ever lived.

so the grains of sand on TRAPPIST-1e