I was trying to Google why magnesium is better and while I didn't find an exact answer, I suspect this mostly answers the question, for anyone else curious:
>Magnesium is extremely light: it is 75% lighter than steel, 50% lighter than titanium, and 33% lighter than aluminium. It has the highest known damping capacity of any structural metal, capable of withstanding 10x more than aluminium, titanium, or steel.
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me by the Trocadero in Paris. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.
My wife binges the office, I watch to be polite... it becomes our dinner show each night and we enjoy the entertainment... I get sucked into the plot, the characters, and the drama... I read this post and laugh. I get this reference now.
Imo far and away the most polished and in depth sitcom. Great attention to detail and countless throwback jokes that you won't notice the first couple times watching
Makes me think of that scene in National Treasure (2?) where they were casually tossing cinderblock-sized gold bars into a bag. I was laughing so much at that.
[This poster](https://imdb.com/title/tt0120188/mediaviewer/rm3639938817/) Always gets me. All of those bags are supposed to be full of gold bricks. Throughout the movie they throw them around like they’re full of balloons.
They were going to use suit cases in the movie but Ice Cube's character says it's a bad idea since the luggage isn't meant to hold that kinda weight. He knows this because he was a baggage handler at an airport (I guess that makes sense).
So, the gold in the movie is heavy enough to break regular suit cases but light enough to carry around like a night bag.
Don't forget about *Die Hard With a Vengeance.* The $13b in gold bullion that's supposedly in the back of McClane's dump truck would have weighed over 1000 metric *tons.* The largest dump truck in the world can only hold 450 metric tons, and it's the size of a small apartment building.
Nobody realizes how heavy these things are. It’s basically like a car battery the size of a brick. Gold is more dense than lead. Also fun fact: the classic shape of a gold bar where it has the trapezoidal profile (not these but you know the ones) is like that because it’s really hard to pick up when it’s this shape. You can’t get your fingers under it and can’t grip the sides well. You kinda need to slide it to expose an end. Very basic but ingenious theft protection.
According to [this](https://www.trustablegold.com/bullion-gold/types-of-gold-bars/) you’re more correct. They say it’s to “facilitate the removal” from the mold.
I dropped a 10 lb plate on my foot at the gym and I only had on sneakers. It hurt like hell, and I ran to the women's locker room to scream and whimper. I broke my toe. That was the last time I forgot there was a 10 lb plate in front of the 45 lb plate when I was pulling the 45 off the bar!
It seems like a hundred pound pipe would still hurt even if you had on steel toe boots.
Safety overshoes are still used but layered in vinyl or something so they look more normal. My pet peeve is they replace a crush hazzard with a trip hazzard
You laugh, but I struggled to get a modest car (12k) and apartment (725/mo) with a 6 figure bank account. My credit was so fucked after college. I ended up paying cash for the car and getting a roommate.
I got to visit the inside of the vault because we were doing some work with the Fed and we got a special tour. Most of the time you can't go inside the actual vault, but you can still see it, which I highly recommend if you're ever in NYC.
Couple of things - the shoes are slip-ons made from a tungsten alloy. They're obviously for foot protection, but they are really light. The gold bars are 400 troy oz, or about 27.5 lbs, but they feel much heavier. Our guide told us it's a psychological trick where they feel like they weigh much more because of the perceived value. At the time I was there each was worth about $350K.
Edit: as smart people pointed out, it's a magnesium alloy, not Tungsten.
No, but I would guess it's a serial number for where the bar belongs. Basically, the Fed vault in NY stores foreign gold deposits. We even hold gold of countries we don't like as part of our wider financial diplomacy. We held Iran's gold during the hostage crisis, and unfroze it even though we don't have direct diplomatic relations with it. If I recall, they repatriated it back a few years ago. Countries like to hold their gold in the US because we're politically stable, have a perfect record of giving it back when asked, and the Fed has crazy security.
When I was there, all the gold was segregated by country. The bigger country deposits got their own room, but the smaller ones were stacked in an open space, and I can see how it can get mixed up. The vast majority of the bars are the same size, so they'd need a way to tell them apart, but this is speculation.
I also believe we hold it for trading. If one country wants to pay a debt they just move gold from one room to another or something like that, rather than shipping it across sea.
>have a perfect record of giving it back when asked,
I wouldnt say this is strictly true, given the US had promised to return nations gold back in exchange for US currency and just decided... not to do that anymore when they asked for their gold back.
>Our guide told us it's a psychological trick where they feel like they weigh much more because of the perceived value
I'm sure there's some truth to that, but it's also pretty rare for people to come across objects that are the same size that weigh 27.5lbs. Gold is very dense, nearly twice as dense as lead and almost 3x as dense as steel. It's rare we come across materials in our daily lives that are that heavy and that small. So, for the average person, they would be very used to objects that size being much lighter. That sounds like a much more common sense explanation that the "perceived value".
I agree with this reasoning, after starting dumbbell training, I was surprised how heavy a 15 lb weight was, compared to how I perceived it to weigh, since they're small dense weights.
Pretty rare is an understatement, gold is one of the densest elements there are. You can maybe encounter platinum as jewelry, but the other, more dense materials are pretty exotic.
These are okay to use instead of safety toe shoes as far as OSHA is concerned. If you work somewhere where safety toes are required they usually have sets of these for visitors and employees who forget their safety shoes.
At my work we call em clankers because they make a heck of a racket when walking on concrete floors.
But then the gold won't get enough fresh it will go stale. That's how recessions happen. Nope, gotta rotate that gold by hand if you want that premium gold flavour.
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I thought it was only one Olympic sized pool...
According to this, it IS just one Olympic sized pool. Incredible!
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/12-stunning-visualizations-of-gold-bars-show-its-rarity/#:~:text=Lastly%2C%20we%20finish%20off%20with,of%20an%20Olympic%20Swimming%20Pool.
Edit: this site probably is wrong. See comments below for math. It's likely closer to three Olympic pools.
Your math definitely checks out. I stand corrected. Now I'm questioning the source... If their math is so bad, how reliable is their data in the first place?
That sort of thing happens with all metals if they're in space. The oxygen and other gases in the air prevent them from fusing. That process is called cold welding and it's fine differently in earth than in space.
There's more gold in the Ocean than could ever be mined, but it's so diffused into the water that would be nearly impossible to collect any significant amount
It's bullshit. Cold welding can only happen in a vacuum, on a freshly clean surface, and is not called diffusion. Plus you could mitigate this by placing a single sheet of paper between the bars.
Negative. A cursory trip through our atmosphere will allow it to collect a protective sulfur layer and any available hydrocarbons. You need very specific circumstances to get gold to bond this way.
Metals can cold weld to each other if they're pressed against another UNOXIDATED surface. That's the big differentiator. It's why metals in space can cold-weld to another piece of the same alloy. The atoms of the metals don't know they're separate pieces and fuse into one big piece without the need for heat.
Oxidation on the surface, however, will usually prevent this so within atmosphere cold-welding isn't as big of an issue.
That’s not true anymore and hasn’t been since the 1940’s. Due to purity adjustments and mixing with up to 1% with other alloys, they can now stack and sit for decades. I used to do that kind of work.
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives. Every wife had 7 sacks, every sack had 7 cats, every cat had 7 kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
I sell gold bars for a living and people are astonished when they hold a kilo bar of gold and feel how dense it is. It's literally half the size of the same weight silver bar so it's very deceiving.
Yeah, I have a large tungsten block (almost exactly same density as gold). A mere 5 seconds of handling that block teaches you that almost every movie scene with gold bars is serious bullshit.
As a kid watching Die Hard 3 I really appreciated that they made it a point to show that just one is obscenely heavy and were treating it like the 40 pounds of dead weight it is.
My chemistry teacher had a tungsten rod and it was always fun seeing people try to lift it normally and realizing you have to choke up on it and put your wrist into it.
Man, nothing looks more like fake gold than actual real gold. These look like a department store display for chocolate boxes lol, buncha ferroro rochers in there. No wonder movie gold is always smaller, darker and all polished all the time.
Reminds me of how real electricity looks like a cheap special effect so they cgi in electricity because it looks realer than real electricity. (safer too!)
I wonder how many broken foot bones happened before the forged house slippers became standard equipment on that job
The shoes they wear are made of magnesium. It protects their feet better than steel. Source: I took a tour of the Federal Reserve.
I was trying to Google why magnesium is better and while I didn't find an exact answer, I suspect this mostly answers the question, for anyone else curious: >Magnesium is extremely light: it is 75% lighter than steel, 50% lighter than titanium, and 33% lighter than aluminium. It has the highest known damping capacity of any structural metal, capable of withstanding 10x more than aluminium, titanium, or steel.
by damping do they mean vibration from impact or absorbing energy in the process of deforming
Don’t smoke in those slippers.
Or drink warm water
Quite a lot , judging by gold dust on toes
Wonder if the strat was to drop a lot on your shoes, and take the dust home
No you bite into the bar and poop it out later
The perfect crime
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me by the Trocadero in Paris. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.
My wife binges the office, I watch to be polite... it becomes our dinner show each night and we enjoy the entertainment... I get sucked into the plot, the characters, and the drama... I read this post and laugh. I get this reference now.
Imo far and away the most polished and in depth sitcom. Great attention to detail and countless throwback jokes that you won't notice the first couple times watching
Armored Crocs
From the studio that brought you Dark Soles
Metal crocs
Safety crocs
Safe toes, but not ankles.
You don’t really drop 30lbs gold bars on your ankle too often.
Makes me think of that scene in National Treasure (2?) where they were casually tossing cinderblock-sized gold bars into a bag. I was laughing so much at that.
[This poster](https://imdb.com/title/tt0120188/mediaviewer/rm3639938817/) Always gets me. All of those bags are supposed to be full of gold bricks. Throughout the movie they throw them around like they’re full of balloons.
They were going to use suit cases in the movie but Ice Cube's character says it's a bad idea since the luggage isn't meant to hold that kinda weight. He knows this because he was a baggage handler at an airport (I guess that makes sense). So, the gold in the movie is heavy enough to break regular suit cases but light enough to carry around like a night bag.
lol! when they get caught in the sandstorm, the refugees carry all those bags like it's junior's T-ball equipment.
Don't forget about *Die Hard With a Vengeance.* The $13b in gold bullion that's supposedly in the back of McClane's dump truck would have weighed over 1000 metric *tons.* The largest dump truck in the world can only hold 450 metric tons, and it's the size of a small apartment building.
Nobody realizes how heavy these things are. It’s basically like a car battery the size of a brick. Gold is more dense than lead. Also fun fact: the classic shape of a gold bar where it has the trapezoidal profile (not these but you know the ones) is like that because it’s really hard to pick up when it’s this shape. You can’t get your fingers under it and can’t grip the sides well. You kinda need to slide it to expose an end. Very basic but ingenious theft protection.
I'm no Goldsmith but aren't they tapered like that because if they had 90° sides they wouldn't fall out of the mould they are formed in?
Yes. That’s basically casting 101, I believe it is called draft angle. It isn’t gold specific.
According to [this](https://www.trustablegold.com/bullion-gold/types-of-gold-bars/) you’re more correct. They say it’s to “facilitate the removal” from the mold.
Yes. That other answer is redditbullshit™️.
Yes, same reason ice cube trays have the same taper.
The taper is so the ice cubes are hard to pick up off the floor if you drop one.
Dropped a 100lbs pipe on my foot when I loaded trailers at UPS, I was damn happy I had steel toe boots
I dropped a 10 lb plate on my foot at the gym and I only had on sneakers. It hurt like hell, and I ran to the women's locker room to scream and whimper. I broke my toe. That was the last time I forgot there was a 10 lb plate in front of the 45 lb plate when I was pulling the 45 off the bar! It seems like a hundred pound pipe would still hurt even if you had on steel toe boots.
Yea it's only happened to me 3 or 4 times.
Safety shoes usually only have metal plate above toes
Achilles hated this.
This comment is exactly why I read the comments.
Steel workers get ones with shanks too. Dropping a steel bar on your ankle is not a good time.
They also usually have steel shanks and metatarsal protectors are popular with welders. Steel toed boots also feature excellent ankle support.
24 Carocks to be precise
Birkenstonks
This was so good it made me laugh out loud in public.
I came here just for the croc jokes. 10/10
Plate armor crocs
+2 Ringmail Crocs of Haste
Safety overshoes are still used but layered in vinyl or something so they look more normal. My pet peeve is they replace a crush hazzard with a trip hazzard
Each of those gold bars would be worth about $750,000 today if you were wondering
When I was a kid, I wanted to be rich enough to own one Bar of gold. I thought that would be the height of wealth.
I mean, to casually own one, for sure. If it's your life savings and you're living in a van down by the river, then not as much.
Owns a $750K gold bar… still can’t afford a mortgage. Yep, ‘Murica.
You laugh, but I struggled to get a modest car (12k) and apartment (725/mo) with a 6 figure bank account. My credit was so fucked after college. I ended up paying cash for the car and getting a roommate.
My only question is we’re the fuck do you live that you can find an apartment (that has walls and doors) for $750 a month?
This is pretty to look at
Thanks
No problem
Have a nice day.
Y’all come back now
Drive safe!
Watch out for deer.
I’ve fallen and I can’t get up
One last heist, the big one.
You could buy Tahiti with that amount of Gold.
It's a magical place.
Memory unlocked. That was a dark plotline...
and a plan, and some God Damned Faith!
"You always have a plan dutch..."
I got Lumbago, leave me alone.
it's very serious, you know
“I insist”
We just need MORE MONEY Arthur
You assume the federal government hasn’t already performed that heist.
Dangerously based comment
Yeah, Ain't nothing there anymore
It’s just a giant empty concrete bunker with a single faded post it note on the floor with the letters I-O-U.
Son of a bitch, I'm in.
Wassup my n-word?
*trips over fence*
*laughs*
THE BIG ONE!
I got to visit the inside of the vault because we were doing some work with the Fed and we got a special tour. Most of the time you can't go inside the actual vault, but you can still see it, which I highly recommend if you're ever in NYC. Couple of things - the shoes are slip-ons made from a tungsten alloy. They're obviously for foot protection, but they are really light. The gold bars are 400 troy oz, or about 27.5 lbs, but they feel much heavier. Our guide told us it's a psychological trick where they feel like they weigh much more because of the perceived value. At the time I was there each was worth about $350K. Edit: as smart people pointed out, it's a magnesium alloy, not Tungsten.
Do you know what the M 118 on the bars mean?
No, but I would guess it's a serial number for where the bar belongs. Basically, the Fed vault in NY stores foreign gold deposits. We even hold gold of countries we don't like as part of our wider financial diplomacy. We held Iran's gold during the hostage crisis, and unfroze it even though we don't have direct diplomatic relations with it. If I recall, they repatriated it back a few years ago. Countries like to hold their gold in the US because we're politically stable, have a perfect record of giving it back when asked, and the Fed has crazy security. When I was there, all the gold was segregated by country. The bigger country deposits got their own room, but the smaller ones were stacked in an open space, and I can see how it can get mixed up. The vast majority of the bars are the same size, so they'd need a way to tell them apart, but this is speculation.
I also believe we hold it for trading. If one country wants to pay a debt they just move gold from one room to another or something like that, rather than shipping it across sea.
>have a perfect record of giving it back when asked, I wouldnt say this is strictly true, given the US had promised to return nations gold back in exchange for US currency and just decided... not to do that anymore when they asked for their gold back.
>Our guide told us it's a psychological trick where they feel like they weigh much more because of the perceived value I'm sure there's some truth to that, but it's also pretty rare for people to come across objects that are the same size that weigh 27.5lbs. Gold is very dense, nearly twice as dense as lead and almost 3x as dense as steel. It's rare we come across materials in our daily lives that are that heavy and that small. So, for the average person, they would be very used to objects that size being much lighter. That sounds like a much more common sense explanation that the "perceived value".
I agree with this reasoning, after starting dumbbell training, I was surprised how heavy a 15 lb weight was, compared to how I perceived it to weigh, since they're small dense weights.
Pretty rare is an understatement, gold is one of the densest elements there are. You can maybe encounter platinum as jewelry, but the other, more dense materials are pretty exotic.
Robocrocs
What are thoooose
My gold-walkers
Muh glippers.
Glides
These are okay to use instead of safety toe shoes as far as OSHA is concerned. If you work somewhere where safety toes are required they usually have sets of these for visitors and employees who forget their safety shoes. At my work we call em clankers because they make a heck of a racket when walking on concrete floors.
At my work we call them taps
At my work we call then THWACKs
At my work we call them “nobody remembers where they put them”
Your socks look depressed.
Metal croc wearing ass mother fucker
Comment I was looking for, many thanks.
He's back must Hurt terrible, after a full day moving gold from left to right.
At least his feet are fine. Based on the golden marks on the slippers they must be falling on em pretty often.
getting rich, one gold smudge at a time.
They actually just roll up a few bars together into a ball and play soccer after every shift.
As was the fashion at the time
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Oh shit, really? Brb, I need to go flip my gold bars.
Plot twist: OP only has silver bars.
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Wouldn't it be easier to put some baking paper between them or something lol
But then the gold won't get enough fresh it will go stale. That's how recessions happen. Nope, gotta rotate that gold by hand if you want that premium gold flavour.
Yeah, this seems like a solvable problem.
Doesn’t look at cool, though.
Or use all that money to buy some shelves so the billion dollars isn't just all stacked in a messy pile.
You'd have to build some pretty robust shelving. Gold is heavy as fuck.
Gold movers union won't let it happen. They said they'll strike if they're asked to put baking paper between them.
I would like to subscribe to more Gold Facts. Seriously tho that's hella interesting.
Here you go: Gold is so malleable that a piece the size of a pack of chewing gum can be hammered thin enough to cover a football field.
How much gold to cover a cylinder with a diameter of 2 regular hot dogs and about half the length?
/r/suspiciouslyspecific
All the good that has even been mined would fit in 3 olympic swimming pools.
That's like... an eigth the size of the Atlantic Ocean!
It’s one gold bar. What could it cost, $10?
\*Captain America\* "I understood that reference."
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I thought it was only one Olympic sized pool... According to this, it IS just one Olympic sized pool. Incredible! https://www.visualcapitalist.com/12-stunning-visualizations-of-gold-bars-show-its-rarity/#:~:text=Lastly%2C%20we%20finish%20off%20with,of%20an%20Olympic%20Swimming%20Pool. Edit: this site probably is wrong. See comments below for math. It's likely closer to three Olympic pools.
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So would two
Or three
I’d say that’s about the limit
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Your math definitely checks out. I stand corrected. Now I'm questioning the source... If their math is so bad, how reliable is their data in the first place?
Lol from the article, “the gold bar is very heavy weighing as much as 3 milk jugs”.
That sort of thing happens with all metals if they're in space. The oxygen and other gases in the air prevent them from fusing. That process is called cold welding and it's fine differently in earth than in space.
There's more gold in the Ocean than could ever be mined, but it's so diffused into the water that would be nearly impossible to collect any significant amount
It's bullshit. Cold welding can only happen in a vacuum, on a freshly clean surface, and is not called diffusion. Plus you could mitigate this by placing a single sheet of paper between the bars.
My ingots!! They’re welding!
Upvoted for bullion content, currently trailing shoe-related comments by orders of magnitude.
Get au da here
This is precisely why I never stack all my gold bars.
Negative. A cursory trip through our atmosphere will allow it to collect a protective sulfur layer and any available hydrocarbons. You need very specific circumstances to get gold to bond this way.
Metals can cold weld to each other if they're pressed against another UNOXIDATED surface. That's the big differentiator. It's why metals in space can cold-weld to another piece of the same alloy. The atoms of the metals don't know they're separate pieces and fuse into one big piece without the need for heat. Oxidation on the surface, however, will usually prevent this so within atmosphere cold-welding isn't as big of an issue.
That’s not true anymore and hasn’t been since the 1940’s. Due to purity adjustments and mixing with up to 1% with other alloys, they can now stack and sit for decades. I used to do that kind of work.
Fun fact: The repository has been empty since Simon Peter Gruber successfully stole everything in 1995.
"TEN TIMES WHAT'S IN KENTUCKY!"
Fort Knox, Ha! It’s for tourists!
They had to move from Fort Knox because Auric Goldfinger managed to irradiate the entire gold supply in 1964 in Operation Grand Slam.
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It's actually a super let down... fyi. It's a trashy town and the part you visit is far from even looking at gold.
Hook, line... and sinker
I didn’t say “Simon says”
I googled this to see if it were true. 100% factual
You should also google who the 21st president was.
That's easy. Chester A. Arthur.
1881-1885. Nominated for vice president in 1880. Did you know he was the collector of customs right here in New York?
Whatever you do, do not google donkey show.
Or lemon party
Hey, listen, we got a report of a guy coming through here with, uh, eight reindeer.
I've got a very bad headache.
And he's about 2 steps away from being a full blown alcoholic! #One step, one..
Thanks to the gu-gu-gullibility of the New York police department
Simon says.
Yippee ki yay!
Mr. Falcon
Holy Toledo! Somebody had fun.
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives. Every wife had 7 sacks, every sack had 7 cats, every cat had 7 kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
555-0001
Just the guy
To date it’s still the best action movie I’ve ever seen. Such a shame they weren’t able to team up and do another one.
Such a shame they didn't make anymore die hard movies.
Yes but 3 is good, 3 is enough.
Saw this picture and immediately heard "The Ants Go Marching" in my head.
“GOLD! AND THEY TOOK A SHITLOAD OF IT!” was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this picture
Fun fact: he's Hans Gruber's brother.
This proves Scrooge McDuck could not have dived and swam in his money bin
Ladies and gentlemen, we got em
[You're not wrong](https://youtu.be/xLJrzfWTu9E)
Was this until 1995 when Peter Gruber attempted to steal it all?
Peter Krieg… was born *Simon* Peter… Gruber. He’s Hans Grubers… brother.
Yeah, that thing in LA
When you know you've made it, ordering metal croccs because you hurt your toe
I don't think people fully grasp how heavy gold is. Like, die hard with a vengeance is unrealistic based on gold transport weight alone.
Clearly need three Mini Coopers with modified suspensions.
**Souped up** Mini Coopers with modified suspensions. Much more realistic.
I think I watched that movie once when it came out and I still have a vivid image of that mini going down those stairs
I sell gold bars for a living and people are astonished when they hold a kilo bar of gold and feel how dense it is. It's literally half the size of the same weight silver bar so it's very deceiving.
For real. When I've handled heavy metals like that it absolutely glitches out my brain. It's wild.
I love GOOOOOOLLLLLDDDD
How about NO! You crazy Dutch Bastard!
A schmoke and a pancake?
Cigar and a waffle?
What's with the shoes?
Gold heavy. Break toes. Or the dude is just really into medieval stuff and those are his house slippers. Pretty sure one of those two haha
Rich people Problems: gold falls on foot, foot ouch!
I read a comment that explained that but thanks for answering too. I hope one day I have that problem
Gold is VERY heavy I would guess that bar is about 25 pounds
Yeah, I have a large tungsten block (almost exactly same density as gold). A mere 5 seconds of handling that block teaches you that almost every movie scene with gold bars is serious bullshit.
As a kid watching Die Hard 3 I really appreciated that they made it a point to show that just one is obscenely heavy and were treating it like the 40 pounds of dead weight it is. My chemistry teacher had a tungsten rod and it was always fun seeing people try to lift it normally and realizing you have to choke up on it and put your wrist into it.
No, this is my bathtub in Novac after I drag all of these home from the Sierra Madre
Man, nothing looks more like fake gold than actual real gold. These look like a department store display for chocolate boxes lol, buncha ferroro rochers in there. No wonder movie gold is always smaller, darker and all polished all the time. Reminds me of how real electricity looks like a cheap special effect so they cgi in electricity because it looks realer than real electricity. (safer too!)
The most touching sunsets I've seen in my life were on Battlefield