 My brother said that he has a hard time conceptualizing a trillion dollars. I told him that a light year is 6 trillion miles. The nearest star is 4.4 light years away, about 25 trillion miles. Polaris is just over 900 light years away or about a quadrillion miles. Polaris is in our experiential world. You can see it from everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere all year around on at least a partly-cloudy night.
The Earth is 93 million miles from the sun, one AU (Astronomical Unit). Call a hundred million one "solar."
So, the light dollar is worth 60,000 solars.
(Somehow, this is not very funny...)
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