/sci/ - Science & Math

Oh yeah?

Wikipedia is down, but this is the cached version:
>Asteroid 1986 DA achieved its most notable recognition when scientists revealed that it contained over "10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum", or an approximate value at the time of its discovery of "$90 billion for the gold and a cool trillion dollars for the platinum, plus loose change for the asteroid's 10 billion tons of iron and a billion tons of nickel."[3]

The cube MUST be on Wimbledon's center court.

>>3305493
cool stuff bro, never heard of a 2-dimensional cube.

>>3305507
It's because of the humidity.

>>3305504
this

And this is such bullshit

>>3305504
Each side.

And yet, gold is among the most popular metals used in jewelry. WHY THE FUCK ARE WE WASTING THIS SHIT ON OLD HAGS AND BITCHES? Fucking pisses me off to no end. Yes, Imad.

>>3305516
then say a 20m^3 cube.

>>3305502
so this asteroid could make gold and platinum worthless you say?

>>3305533
That's lame though.

That's what the MAN wants you to think. Just like diamonds. De Beers is pig, oik oink ook.

>>3305535
>>3305535
>>3305535
but it would also mean everything involving gold and tin would be cheaper. Think about it, enough silver and we could use it in place of copper in wires, since it's a better conductor, their worth is a value we create for them based on their rarity, it doesn't matter if it changes, but it does matter if they become more available and thus more useful

>>3305535
Damn straight. Another Aluminium revolution.

>my face when some people tell me this is a bad thing because 'Oh no then it becomes worthless and I can't make money off the fact of how rare it is'

>>3305539
the fuck?

Another cool fact

Said cube would weigh so much that it would plummet deep into the earth's surface due to it's sheer weight. It would continue to do so until it reached Earth's core, opening a gateway to hell.

>>3305557

The whole devaluing via having enough material to actually DO things with it, is a disgrace.

Yes, that would collapse the value of the material.

No, that is not a bad thing. The economy would rebalance around whatever was then the most rare or invaluable.

And if not, well, the system is about to become obsolete.

>>3305590
>And if not, well, the system is about to become obsolete.
All according to keikaku.

>>3305590

You do realize that all assets in those commodities would simply vanish right? I mean take all the people that have invested in gold over the past decade, all those people would literately lose all of their money that is in gold, not to mention the platinum. I mean it would balance itself out the same way a person recovers from getting stabbed eventually recovers.

>>3305607

If they didn't see the shift in market prices coming when they see the start of the asteroid mining operations begin to bear fruit, then they deserve to lose all the money they have invested in it.

Isn't that how the free-market is supposed to work, adapt or die?

>>3305607
Actually if people did put all their money in gold and platinum and they were made worthless it would be like stabbing someone and then ripping the heart out.

>>3305607
Good. I don't care the same way I wouldn't care if horse carriage drivers went out of business due to this newfangled thing called the automobile. The fault of all the dipshits that actually got jipped into OOOH BUY GOLD

And it's not as if there wouldn't be warning signs. What, you think if a company announces that they're gonna mine asteroids for massive amounts of rare earth metals that someone is not going to ring alarm bells and there won't be a sell-off?

>>3305621

Which is ironically the whole point of the free market, isn't it? That those who don't adapt, or adapt too slowly, or just get unlucky, die.

Socialism is evil amirite?

>>3305651
Oh yes, so evil. Stalin etc.

>>3305657

Don't forget that Stalin was an athiest too! Those evil, evil athiests going on their Athiest Crusades to murder all those moral, hardworking Christians!

Like Hitler! Only he killed Jews.

Platinum is valuable as fuck because it's a key ingredient in scrubbing the pollutants out of car exhaust. Also it's rare as fuck.

So stop making jewelry out of it and let me pass my goddamn E-check.

>>3305673
Bloody kiddies want my tax dollars to fund their 'science' classrooms where they teach atheist dogma and shit on good Christian values. They want an entire generation to grow up an athiest without morals. And they'll come after you next.

I guess it is not possible for me to get a castle built out of gold, then...

>childhood dreams die ;_;

>>3305687
>asteroid mining
>metals like gold become cheap as fuck
>plate EVERYTHING with as much gold as you wish

>>3305693

Also, if we can lick nanotech, Diamond will be cheaper than glass.

That might be a bit further on.

>>3305693
I am going to dedicate a wing of my fortress to you.

>>3305702
I smiled :3
>>3305700
The diamond age. CCM will cream himself.

>>3305716

Yup. I'll be planning to meet you guys on Mars. We'll be drinking the chemical equivalent of 400 year old scotch out of diamond shot glasses.

Good times.

>>3305716

You know, from my experience doodling around NanoEngineer, Lonsdaleite is easier to shape into many machines than Diamond.

My Diamond rods just kept exploding (I was working at -60 degrees Celsius) but Lonsdaleite ran for 900 femtoseconds and kept its shape.

Fuck the diamond age. I'm going to title my novel 'The Lonsdaleite Age'.

>>3305727
I am inspired to draw a large dining hall full of people from /sci/ that is inside and built into the side of Valles Marineris with the other side with its far off city out the window...

>>3305686
If they made sexual toys out of Muhammad, there would be so much rioting in the Mideast that America would have to withdraw its troops.

>>3305758
I'll put a call through to Bad Dragon or something.Let's make this shit happen.

>>3305741

Do it.

>>3305758

Do this too.

>>3305741
DO IT!
then draw gentlemen smoking cigar at O.M. lookout with setting sun

>>3305770
>>3305772
It helps if pics are posted.

ATTENTION /SCI/:
POST PICS IF YOU WISH TO BE IN MY MOST ELABORATE DRAWING YET RELATED TO >>3305741

>>3305786

I don't have it with me right now, but make me the picture of the mirror-faced Transhuman with galaxies in the background and reflected off his face.

You know the one.

>>3305793
I think I do.

>>3305795

Actually, not that one. The one without any facial features, in a business suit made out of stars.

Although that one is good too.

>>3305799
Aha.

>>3305802

There we go. Feel free to add a tophat if you like.

>>3305805
Will do. But I don't intend on beginning this now/tomorrow as it's 4AM now and I have some shit to do tomorrow.

>>3305813

Oh, No rush.

Hell, you must be on the opposite side of the planet. It's the middle of the day here.

>>3305700
Man, cheap diamond would be really useful. It would be great in computers.

>>3305818
Yeah, I dislike Australia.

>>3305825

It would literally replace glass as a common window structure. Silicon atoms would by that point be much more valuable and rarer than Carbon, so since the only problem with diamond is a structural one which can be solved by nanotech...

Of course, you'd need some impressive computers to get the nanotech to do this shit in the first place.

As for me, I want clothes made of buckytubes that clean themselves, and have integrated electronics, wirelessly connected to a set of HUD contacts.

>>3305846
>2012
>not having clothes made of buckytubes that clean themselves, and have integrated electronics, wirelessly connected to a set of HUD contacts

seinfield.jpg

A cubic meter of gold is about 19300 Kg. Your average gold ring weighs 1 to 2 grams. Averaging 1.5 grams per ring that means one cubic meter of gold could make 126666666 gold rings.So all the gold in the world could make 20 x 20 x 20 x 12666666 = 101333333333 gold rings. More then enough for everyone on the planet. OP's claim seems possible to me.

I don't even know what's going on.

>>3305868

Yeah... what the heck is that even saying? That artificial diamonds wouldn't hold together?

If you can actually get them into alignment, they obviously would...

>>3305877

That rod logic is going to have to run in a pool of liquid Helium. Seriously, now, I was just posting to post. I thought it was funny!

Also I'll figure out why it only explodes on one side.

So wait, is each side 20m^2? That makes the entire thing have a volume of √20^3 m^3, or 40√5 m^3.

>>3305884

Don't forget to give Inurdaes an image for his "tea party on mars" oc.

what usages does it have other than beauty?

>>3305786
this is me

>>3305894

>"tea party on mars"

I had the worst thought ever before I realized what you meant.

>>3305903

Oh god. Why did you put that image in my head.

It would be the end of humanity, and I would welcome it.

gold can only be used for jewellery? gtfo out if sci, moron.

>>3305914

Trauma'd for life.

>>3305786
yes sir

>>3305786

Hi I square cubes cause they are squares.

Deal with it.

I'm waiting for that picture

>>3305493

So the big cube at Mecca is gold?

>>3306209
No, its a piece of an asteroid in a box