Numbers

Unlimited: A federal appeals court yesterday backed the president’s power to indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil without any criminal charges [1]

325,000: Number of Names on Terrorism List[1]

26: Number of terrorism-related databases [1]

386 Million: Number of US Dollars KBR awarded Homeland Security contract to build detention centres [1 ,2]

1,500: Number of “suspicious incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period. [1]

$318.6 billion: Deficit for Fiscal 2005 for the US Government (2.6% of GDP, down from 3.6% but above the 40-year average of 2.3%) [1, 2, ]

$7,905.3 billion: Total gross Federal debt at the end of fiscal 2005 for the US Government [1, 2]

180: number of known planets outside our solar system [1]

100,000 light-years by 10,000 light-years: width and thickness of the Milky Way Galaxy [1, 2]
200 billion: estimated number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy
500 light-years: radius of the sphere centred on the Sun being searched by NASA for planets
3,700: estimated number of stars in the search sphere