Too many digits! The National Debt Clock is broken!

[Towlie]

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

[lonestarnot]

1. Did they "oil" it?

[Towlie]

2. Here's a screen capture from 8:15 PM, 10/1/2008

To preserve the image in case it gets fixed:

[bdamomma]

3. broke just like us.

and this country.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. wow...we broke it n/t

[tama]

5. Its been a busy few days

08/29/2008 5,479,100,086,662.10 4,166,625,468,977.92 9,645,725,555,640.02
09/02/2008 5,509,898,020,864.12 4,157,903,641,565.11 9,667,801,662,429.23
...
09/17/2008 5,476,381,035,381.95 4,170,766,425,173.05 9,647,147,460,555.00
09/18/2008 5,492,459,419,394.83 4,172,172,383,864.24 9,664,631,803,259.07
09/19/2008 5,552,620,101,517.17 4,174,389,518,377.17 9,727,009,619,894.34
09/22/2008 5,613,059,030,493.40 4,172,807,135,417.00 9,785,866,165,910.40
09/23/2008 5,613,893,232,637.39 4,177,676,012,038.56 9,791,569,244,675.95
09/24/2008 5,614,420,276,276.55 4,173,660,385,551.68 9,788,080,661,828.23
09/25/2008 5,674,500,268,592.36 4,174,749,697,791.56 9,849,249,966,383.92
09/26/2008 5,714,473,881,064.87 4,174,725,650,384.21 9,889,199,531,449.08
09/29/2008 5,774,962,168,083.97 4,170,616,063,897.62 9,945,578,231,981.59
09/30/2008 5,808,691,665,403.71 4,216,033,231,508.78 10,024,724,896,912.49
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/NPGateway

Last four days adding 61 billion, 40 billion, 56 billion and 79 billion respectively.

September adding 378,999,341,272 - about 379 billion - to the public debt!!! Last year total debt increase was IIRC about 500 billion, and now 379 billion in just few days...

(edit: make that 4 billion more since the last look :D... going from 2 billion a day to 2 billion a minute? :D)