America is big
Check out this page of cool artworks by artist Chris Jordan, depicting the output of the US economy. Such as, two million plastic bottles per five minutes:
Or 15 million sheets of office paper per five minutes:
There are many more interesting pictures on Chris’s site. I was thinking it’d be pretty cool to see these things as animations. For example, a football field filling up with bottles at the appropriate rate, or a dozen printers churning out paper really really fast.
(HT: Statistical Modelling)
