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Originally posted by ~widowmaker~
reply to post by skycowboy
used in circuit boards , teeth, food as decoration (gold leaf), satelites, art work, jewelry, has healing properties as silver does, there really is a ton more uses than just monetary value.
Originally posted by Highergrounds
The Germans are coming,Hurry up !! How fast can you Gold plate the bars of lead shaped like gold to fool the Germans?
Originally posted by Skywatcher2011
reply to post by Caltrops
I am sure the Sea Pirates are waiting to see which vessel will be taking this cargo overseas
...Holy crap!
Originally posted by ujustneverknow
Makes me wonder who owns the "Gold into Cash" stores?
think about it......
Originally posted by TehSlenderMan
reply to post by Caltrops
This may be a very very stupid and uneducated question. But, why is so much German gold in a vault in America?
Originally posted by TehSlenderMan
reply to post by Caltrops
This may be a very very stupid and uneducated question. But, why is so much German gold in a vault in America?
I was thinking the exact same scenario. However the Germans are not idiots so perhaps they have some means to get around this issue. My guess is that the US will simply let them know to back off. The last one to play this game was DeGaulle and his life hanged in the balance for many years.
The numbers are just,... poof.. into fantasy land. I wish Germany well with getting their Gold checked and verified. I'd just hope they ask to see OTHER vaults in at least a peak in the door or, at Fort Knox, in the gate kind of way. Otherwise, how will Germany know if the pallets of Gold are really THEIRS or it's the same pallets of gold just seen over and over for whoever might push far enough to have to show some to.
Originally posted by KhufuKeplerTriangle
Thank you for posting this article. By the way, did you know that the origin of gold and silver was recently published on many websites and in magazines early this year and late last year -- the scientists think it comes from Novas and Star Fusion events; for example, to produce gold, you need two well-balanced gravitationally-linked stars to slowly fuse together. For some reason this starts the reaction that emits mono-atomic gold and sends those particles flying through space! It could be that many of them coalesce in the magnetic fields near those stars and form the things we call meteors and asteroids; which explains the interest of companies like Planetary Resources in harvesting SpaceRock for gold and other metals and minerals.
I posit that given the right conditions it may be possible to simulate this type of fusion in the laboratory and literally produce gold locally.
The gold you see in the photo above was not found in a river or a mine. It was produced by a bacteria that, according to researchers at Michigan State University, can survive in extreme toxic environments and create 24-karat gold nuggets. Pure gold. Accoding to Kashefi, they are doing "microbial alchemy" by "something that has no value into a solid [in fact, it the toxic material they use does cost money. Less than gold, but still plenty], precious metal that's valuable."
The bacteria is incredibly resistant to this toxic element. In fact, it's 25 times stronger than previously thought. The researchers' compact factory—which they named The Great Work of the Metal Lover—holds the bacteria as they feed it the gold chloride. In about a week, the bacteria does its job, processing all that junk into the precious metal—a process they believe happens regularly in nature.
So yes, basically, Cupriavidus metallidurans can eat toxins and poop out gold nuggets.