>>Did you know that all the gold mined since mankind hold in a cube >>that has only 19 meters on its sides? > don't forget though, that is 19x19x19 = 7000 cubic meters. Really big dump trucks (picture a NY city trash truck, say) only hold a few cubic meters of stuff. >I'd heard that (I think this means it could all just barely fit in my >little apartment!). An actual 19-meter cube of gold-spraypainted >styrofoam just might make an interesting item for some group >trying to make a point about how rare gold is. > >I wonder how they came up with this figure? And I wonder how >much is in central bank vaults, and how much is being worn as >jewelry, and how much is in our computers (or other industrial >uses)? I also wonder how much of the cube would be taken up >by 121 400oz bars if they were all melted down, Someone must know the dimendions of those bars. let's say they are about 8 inches long and four across and 2 up. That means there would be about 5 lengthways in a metre, 10 of them across in a meter and 20 upwards in a meter. So, a cubic meter of those bars would be about 5.10.20 = 1000 of those bars. My guess would be "one thousand to a few thousand of those bars make up one cubic meter" (Another way to think about it --- a common pick up truck, a chevy or ford, holds a cubic meter or so. How many of those bars could you pile into a chevy - probably a few thousand, I think.) (Needless to say the suspension would be shot!) Does anyone know how many cubic yards of coal a coal-wagon holds in a big freight train? 10? 15? 20? >and what size >THAT "cube-within-a-cube" might be? >JMR > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- "Great ventures create great mottos." --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
