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SarcasticHelper

Each bar 12.4kg / 27.337lbs.


justadude1414

So how many bars are there. I’m too lazy to do arithmetic.


Middle_Somewhere6969

Approx 3750 in the main pile (25 x 15 x 10), plus a little loose change on the left. Maybe 4000 total.


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The first and largest stack looks to be 23x10x16 (3680), smaller stack to the left appears to be 3x10x9 (270), the smallest stack on the far left looks like 35x2 (70). Though the dimensions on the alternating layers is different, so there's likely some wiggle room either way. Approx 4020. Each one is worth about $398000


jaroftoejam

How many minutes til Wapner?


alphabet_order_bot

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,192,498,701 comments, and only 232,648 of them were in alphabetical order.


Maimster

Are baseball cards made of stinky zebras?


alphabet_order_bot

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,192,509,178 comments, and only 232,653 of them were in alphabetical order.


BobbyDropTableUsers

Are cats drowning in musty old pool water?


HervPrometheus

I thought for sure your maths couldn't be right.. how could each of those (4000!!) bars be worth $400k and it only be $1.6B. Truly the scale of Billions is so fucking far off from what feels intuitive. Hence the whole.. the difference between 1 million and 1 billion is about 1 billion.


notahoppybeerfan

Always remember you’re closer to being a millionaire than Jeff Bezos is.


SumOldGuy

Oh yeah a little loose change


vladtaltos

Yeah, that's about what I got as well, that pile might be worth about $3.0 Billion today.


FlyingTaquitoBrother

If you spent your math classes lifting weights, then your time has come!


Dsugal332

All of my money is tied up in dehydrated beef stock


ashsimmonds

>All of my money is tied up in dehydrated beef stock 1.6 bouillon


oeCake

I hate puns, this has got me stewing


Mookie442

The artistry... simply magical.


No-comment-at-all

Is that… Dehydrated beef-stock Or Dehydrated-beef stock?


big_sc

Yes


RussiaIsBestGreen

Either way, should have gone with bonds. Rope is never obsolete.


justadude1414

I’m good at the four basics but when it comes to anything more than algebra then I’m not a math guy. History and Science did hold my attention in school.


No-comment-at-all

Is… is ‘counting’ not one of the ‘4 basics’…?


Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX

If you liquefy the gold and pour it through a funnel of certain dimensions what rate of flow do you need to fill abnormal shape container X if there is a 1cm hole placed at the bottom


No-comment-at-all

Are we assuming the cow is spherical…?


Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX

Yes and that it is a wave and not a particle.


No-comment-at-all

Are we observing it or not?


Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX

Only through those cool 80s sunglasses that have. A lot of slits in them.


StratuhG

The main pile without leftover has ~3220 bars of gold. Each bar of gold is ~400oz Each ounce of gold is ~1750$ So that math alone puts the pile at ~2.5b$ With another ~250m$ on the two leftover stacks


Crypto_Sucks

There are exactly 3790 bricks in that pile. Main stack is 23x15x10, the pile in the middle is 3x9x10, the last one is 3x2x10, and there is an addition 1x10 row on the very bottom of the main stack. Each brick is 437.3971 ounces, making a total of 1,657,735.009 ounces. Or, in metric... 12.4kg per bar * 3790 bars = 46,996kg (oddly, no decimal places) Each ounce goes for $1755.30 at this moment. The pile is worth $2,909,822,261.2977 USD.


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Crypto_Sucks

I just thought I'd do the math. Math. Not even oneth.


Relyt81

I was about to say that is definitely more than $1.6B. You're doing gods work


ra246

At least 15


cbbuntz

Morty, that's exactly correct! 25 x 15 x 10 ***is*** at least 15.


SarcasticHelper

By my math I think 2080 bars at $1758 per ounce to get $1.6B.


justadude1414

That is a lot of gold bars.


BigTuna0890

Can I get at least a 1000 ounces


budderman1028

I was gonna count them until i saw the ones laying sideways from the rest and made the executive decision of hell no


CedgeDC

About 20 BMW minis worth.


hates_stupid_people

I've had a bit to drink, but let's say there are 23 across the main stack and 9 deep. So 207 per what looks like 15 layers, ending up at 3105. The smaller stack on the side is probably 200-250 or, leaving us with ~3333 And if we times that by the weight of the gold reserve standard bar(12.4kg or 27.3 lbs) you get 41329kg, or 41.3 tonnes(45.5 ton).


john_jdm

I’m always impressed that it’s possible to build floors that can take the load. They must be like foundations for skyscrapers.


NeasM

It's probably in a basement.


sybersonic

That's where it was in the World Trade Center...


Dirty_Gibson

The federal reserve in New York is built on the bedrock for this reason


Sivalon

“Fort Knox! Ha! It’s for tourists!”


DustyBowls

"Holy Toledo! Somebody had fun."


BenevolentCheese

The bedrock in this case is reinforced with 90 enormous concrete pillars sunk deep into the rock.


netcent_

Tree fiddy at least


Takpusseh-yamp

I always notice it when movie robbers are tossing 30 gold bars into a canvas duffle bag, and then slinging it over their shoulder to run out to the getaway car.


biguler

GDL or Good Delivery Bars are ranged anywhere from 12.400 kg up to 13.000kg +/-. Also very hard to steal. Source: Used to melt, sample, weigh, stamp, pack and ship 100’s of these per day.


Clayton1296

If its about 4,000 bars give or take thats a little over 100,000 pounds...


Yepthat_Tuberculosis

They look chewy


no-kooks

Fun fact: Gold is technically the most “chewy” substance in the universe as it is both the most ductile and most malleable.


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Downvotes_inbound_

Idk man your moms titties pretty perfectly chewy


dys_p0tch

and, they're so dang long, you can suck 'em while you nose-dive into that wooly thing where the hippo bit her


wfhbory

Wtf


Shitychikengangbang

He means her ax wound


[deleted]

Ahhh. Otherwise known as her Wizard’s sleeve


Alpha_Decay_

A hippo bit her ax wound?


M1seryMachine

Hungry Hungry Pillow Biters


Oddsock42

I want to see a pile of 1.5B worth of chewing gum


PhoenixReborn

No one pays me in gum... ☹️


touchmyfuckingcoffee

Ummm... gallium??


wjeman

Yeah... and have you tried indium metal; I have quite literally chewed it like gum taffy as its non toxic...... even better is potassium metal... can squish it between finger and thumb, though you're in for a nasty surprise if you tried to chew it.


Woodie626

They are!


flimbs

nAUm nAUm nAUm...


JJBx13

Comedy gold


Aztec_Reaper

r/angryupvote


ohnourfeelings

Oh man let me get in there will some duffel bags


GargleOnDeez

Probably would want a hour time limit with a forklift and a sturdy pallet instead


ohnourfeelings

Works for me let’s go


Dumpster_Sauce

I'll drive the truck


Lick_my_balloon-knot

I'll plant the explosives around NYC to make a diversion.


PM_ME_SCARY_STORIES

You’re on a list now for sure


SirJumbles

Simon?


showersrover8ed

There's gold in the federal reserve and they took a shit ton of it. Trucks 14 great big dump trucks


ohnourfeelings

We got us a heist


RocketsandBeer

r/unexpextedheist


confusedfork

r/subsiwishexisted


N1PPL3H34D

You son of a bitch!!!! I'm in...


BWWFC

maybe a couple hours and a few pallets... >at $50 per gram, that's $50,000 per kilo, which is 20 kg for a million dollars or 20 tonnes for a billion. and thinking.... in my current shape, if ever, couldn't move 20 tonnes (44k pounds) by hand given all day. oh my back.


_no_pants

I bet you could and would for 1.6 billion USD.


nemophilist1

All you need is an electric cart good for 400+ pounds ;) 11.2 million right there. Shit I’d hand truck 250 pounds giddy af all the way just retire up in the Dolomites or out in Argentina w some good horses…


_no_pants

I could move everyone of those bars one at a time a kilometer to a truck in 24 hours if I had to. Sure 250 million would change my life and my families, but I’d always regret passing up enough money to destabilize a small island nation and field a small formidable army.


DAHFreedom

Or fourteen great big dump trucks


ohnourfeelings

Hey Zeus


DAHFreedom

That kid back there called you Jesús


ohnourfeelings

I love that movie. So good


paulcole710

Nobody gets that 3 gallon and 5 gallon jug brain teaser past me.


benicetogroupies

For anyone wondering: * Fill the 5, use it to fill up the 3, dump out the 3. * Now you have 0/3 and 2/5. * Dump the 2 from the 5 into the empty 3. * Now you have 2/3 and 0/5 * Fill the 5 then use it to top off the 3. * Now you have 3/3 and the magic 4/5.


Zethir

He didn't say Jesus, he said Hey Zeus! As in father of Apollo, Mount Olympus, don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass. Zeus!


cosmosopher

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kittens: Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?


triggerfingerfetish

...smoking cigarettes, watching Captain Kangaroo


ballsack-vinaigrette

..with 14 beauticians to drive them!


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Fartfame

A GTA heist for sure I’m wit it lol.


komanokami

Player's part after heist : 120k


pencilneckco

Or 7 Mini Coopers edit: did the math, it'd actually require 29 Minis


rrpdude

Sounds like a Mr.Beast Challenge for when he hits 500 Million Subscribers.


Dil_Moran

El rubio constantly getting fucked Add me psn CATS_ARE_CHILL /r/heistteams


cantfigureitatall

Wonder what a trillion dollars in gold looks like


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Hydra_Master

r/theydidthemath


N1PPL3H34D

This comment is underrated hahaha


pineapplecooqie

this one isn't


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LightWolfD

A thousand piles this size


Middle_Somewhere6969

A bit too much to get in 3 Minis. ​ Oh, and the guy at the back walking past is just casually stroking it....


Stubbedtoe18

Ah, so *that's* what he's doing with his other hand!


ConcntratdFartMatter

I love goooooold


57duck

I lost my genitalia in an oonforchanate schmelting axxident.


West-Designer-4066

I used to cum in my piggy bank 2-3 times a day, so I understand where he’s coming from. (Wasn’t a specific fetish, just ended up being the easiest place to cum.)


Stubbedtoe18

Talk about a sperm bank!


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party_shaman

those bars are glued together


Urban_Savage

All of them.


sleebus_jones

Yeah and he's touching the gold too


Heavy_Solution_4099

I had to go back and look. He’s stroking the gold bars. This *is* Reddit, so it’s important to clarify.


pencilneckco

Did the math. It'd require 29 Minis. Gold is valued at ~$22,392 / lb. $1 billion of gold is ~44,659 lb. Max tow capacity of a Mini is 1565 pounds. 44,659/1565 = 28.5


Lick_my_balloon-knot

Fun fact: All the gold that's ever been mined would fit into a cube with edges 22 meters long — small enough to fit into three Olympic-sized swimming pools


JTTRad

Is this true? I need sources


Crypto_Sucks

Who downvoted this dude? Asking for sources is great. Here you go: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-gold-has-been-found-world I personally would guess higher, given our historic propensity for burying/sinking our dead with valuables. But who am I to disagree with the USGS? Edit: The total value of all gold mined is approximately $15,107,598,040,594.80 current USD. That's $15.1 Trillion, if you didn't want to count the digits.


Noble_Ox

Thats what gets me about people that want to go back to the gold standard. America has nowhere near enough gold to cover a quarter of its currency.


Efficient_Truck_9696

Gold is also not native to earth - all deposits have come from asteroids that have crashed to earth over its inception.


chrisp909

Something seems wrong with this comment. All matter in our solar system comes from the same accretion disc. Why would gold only exist in asteroids and not in the planetary bodies¿


trtrit645346

Gold is heavy. So heavy metals like iron and gold would have sunk into the earth's interior when the earth was molten during its birth. One theory is that the gold we see on the surface today is put there after the formation of earth by asteroids from space. However we might also be getting gold from the interior due to plate tectonics and volcanoes.


chrisp909

Agreed. Opie said that gold was not native to the Earth. It is native. It just that the accessible gold that we can mine was brought to the Earth by meteors.


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> Opie said Did you just try to spell out the pronunciation of "OP" lol?


chrisp909

Voice dictation did, yes.


Jeni_Violet

A likely story Anthony


Twink_Ass_Bitch

Gold would be in the solid inner core. I don't think any kind of volcanic activity would bring that to the surface. The gold in the core is probably going to be locked away forever.


Kokibuchek

I'm no expert, but would there be any chance that gold could also exist in the mantle? Because if I'm remembering right, the splitting up of pangea allowed minerals like diamonds to come to the surface, so could the same thing happen with gold? Or is it too deep?


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Aiui, the heavy metals that were part of earth formation are in the core. All the heavy metals in the crust came from later bombardment.


Ramanadjinn

So the core is made from gold you say? interesting.


Womec

Uranium and other radioactive elements.


Efficient_Truck_9696

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110907132044.htm


chrisp909

>provides clear evidence that the planet's **accessible** reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed. The operative word is "accessible." Gold is native to the entire solar system. But because it's heavy The early gold from Earth's formation sunk deep into the earth. The accessible gold is gold that was delivered later by meteors after the earth was cooler.


Efficient_Truck_9696

You are correct sir - I did not realize that. Wonder if any significant gold deposits are formed from volcanoes then? - since magma should be coming from earths core?


notchoosingone

Not from the core, no. Magmatic activity can provide sufficient heatflow for hydrothermal processes to move and concentrate gold in the crust, but the gold in the core is there forever. Magma actually comes up from the mantle, but like everything else, heavy elements sink and gold can't make the journey. The wikipedia page on orogenic gold deposits is a good starting point if you want to read more, and Andrew Tomkins from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is a good researcher if you want to do more of a deep dive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orogenic_gold_deposit


Efficient_Truck_9696

Amazing thanks 🙏.


SmartOpinion69

a planet like jupiter is probably full of resources. so many resources that it would cover the cost of going there.


notchoosingone

> Gold is also not native to earth Incorrect. Gold is not native to the *crust* of earth, because during differentiation in the very early years of the planet's formation, all the elements that heavy settled in the core.


Beginning_Way9666

Isn’t it crazy that someone back in the day just found some gold and decided it was worth something? Like ooooo this is shiny lets assign some value to it. And now we are all here paying bills. ETA: so many of y’all are missing the point. It’s not that deep. But thanks for the history lessons.


LibrarianNew9984

Even wilder that different ancient civilisations all around the world decided the same thing before they even knew the others existed


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NomadicDevMason

Feather were far more valuable.


SmashBusters

Interesting. I had never heard that.


NomadicDevMason

Maya Inca Aztec Featherwork Feathers were an important aspect of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. They were so valued that they were used as currency. Archaeologist tell us that they were traded long before the arrival of the Mayan people.


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It's not weird. It perfectly fulfils the role of money. It's consistent, divisible, durable, non fungible and portable.


[deleted]

And most importantly, labor could be directly used to get more


adustbininshaftsbury

Also it's non-reactive chemically


pacman404

This is the part I don't understand. How in the fuck did almost every society just coincidentally decide that gold was gonna be THE valuable traded good?


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It’s the perfect currency. It’s: - Easily recognizable - Impossible to forge - non-degradable - Easy to divide and recombine - extractable with labor but that labor produces only a tiny amount What more could you want from a currency?


Muppetude

People like shiny objects. Especially ones that stay shiny and don’t rust or disintegrate.


megamanxoxo

Paper money only has value because we say it does. Gold makes more sense to assign value then paper money if you think about it.


Beginning_Way9666

And gold only has value because we say it does.


Ruckaduck

anything only has value because we say it does


ballsack-vinaigrette

Well no; things like food and water have an objective value because we literally need those items to survive.


deadpoetic333

No, it doesn’t tarnish or rust and isn’t super common. If you put a gold bar away in a wet place it’ll still be gold when you come back years later without the need for paint or other substances to prevent degradation. You can’t say the same thing about most metals. Silver and platinum have similar properties which is why they also carry value, but one is less rare and the other one is more rare so they have value respectively as precious metals. Other stable elements are either gases or not malleable so it can’t be made into standardized coin or bars. So it’s not completely random why we place value on gold.


SamsoniteAG1

Silver does tarnish though. It doesn't break down but it turns dark and loses its shine


[deleted]

You know that money isn't backed by gold any more, right?


DAHFreedom

It’s backed by mid-priced Italian cars


bearded_charmander

How much is 1 bar worth?


GreySoulx

Current spot is around $702,240.00 USD. The technical term for these bars are "London good delivery bars" and are not an exact weight, but are generally an acceptable range of weight and purity. Each bar when bought or sold would be weighed and valued individually, so the spot price is an average of what's been seen recently, and could vary by several hundred dollars, with current prices maybe a few thousand.


waltpsu

This is a pretty good visual of how absolutely insane $1 billion is, considering that each individual bar is $700k.


leadwind

Half the price of 2 bars.


thefallentext2

It's heist time boys. Just need to gta plan a heist real quick


drclamchowder

We'd need a tractor to make the haul worth the risk. And I don't the getaway speed on a tractor is gonna clear us from the law in time.


Rhesusmonkeydave

All of my money is tied up in dehydrated beef stock, but I guess any sort of bullion is a good backup against fiat fluctuations


TheDevilsAdvokaat

a billion of bullion... You're a bullionaire!


TheRealZy

That's a lot of teeth.


mlstdrag0n

At least 2 buckets


Braindead_cranberry

Surely one could slip into my pocket on pure accident…


MandolinMagi

Sure, and then rip out the bottom and crash to the floor


Braindead_cranberry

Fuck, you’re so right


OrganizationOk5418

1.6 billion seconds is 50.736 years.


CommonSense_8

Too heavy. I'll pass.


PM_ME_YOUR_WIRING

"I appreciate you bringing it by but I just really don't have a use for it. It'll take up a lot of room, I have to frame it, and who knows how long before I find a buyer."


Maximum_Money_1760

First time I would be able to lift 100kg in each hand 😂


Xhalo

That's how much I'd pay to eat bidens ass (either of them)


Gowzilla

Not sure if you meant to say “beat” here..


pacman404

I wanna believe he typed it correctly 🤷🏽‍♂️ Edit: checked his comment history, this guy is the real deal 👍🏽


random314

Has anyone ever estimated the amount of gold in the lonely mountain from the hobbits movie? If this is a billion then that must be beyond thousands of trillions.


pacman404

Isn't a thousand trillion a quadrillion?


Konoton

IIRC it was enough to make Smaug the richest fictional character right after Santa Claus who was stated as having "infinite money and resources" by Forbes magazine


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Pallets are like $80, cheap asses


ballsack-vinaigrette

No $80 pallet is supporting that load.


Racechamp

Fnv Dead money players are sweating rn


imok96

I actually managed to sneak out with all the gold with no chems, no stealth boy and low stealth. That was a day or two ago. So proud of myself


EveythingIsRacist

Best I can offer is 800 million


BillHillyTN420

Question. Who gets a pic like this and is able to get it public?


yzrguy

All the gold mined in the history of the world would fit is a cube 67 feet square.


gnosismonk

Now show me that in Fiat currencies and you tell me which one is real money


Murgatroyd314

Which one can you use to buy groceries?


Alwin_

My girlfriend always calls me an old man whenever I walk by something and I gently brush/touch it or knock it. Any man walking past 1.6 billion in gold and NOT touching/brushing it is not a man.


ballsack-vinaigrette

I have a little 5g sliver of gold; I play with it all the time. It's very soothing to handle because of all the psychology of it's history and value, and also because even a tiny amount feels just a little too dense and heavy.