£197 Billion in gold

[lawmanreturns]

That kind of money could camouflage a whole fleet of Bentleys.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You need the link to be the original url, i.e. not the url of a video that was related...

Related url:: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=KaZcyeJ-GBE&NR=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... J-GBE&NR=1</a>

Original/direct url:: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtf5s2HFkA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtf5s2HFkA</a>

The url must be like the one i labeled "original" these links you get generally from a youtube search.
Any others will not be interpreted as a proper youtube link.

[youtube][/youtube]

Paste your url in the middle

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtf5s2HFkA[/youtube]

It was good of Damocles to take time out from his busy modding duties to explain all that stuff about gold.

 

[metalblue]

If all the gold ever mined was put into one block it wouldn't even fill the ground to first floor level of the Eiffel Tower, in fact it would be unlikely to fill more than a 1/4 of the space available.

 

[another generation]

For something that valuable, they could at least make sure that the blocks are aligned perfectly! Wonder if I can blag myself in to the vault as a quality control inspector? Any misaligned blocks get taken away in a very sturdy vehicle.

Those figures for the various countries are scary, when you think of their worth. The UK in the lower league, with a pootling little 310 tonnes, compared to the mighty US-of-A with a whopping 8133 tonnes. Meanwhile, the question has to be asked... Oi, Germany, where'dya get those 3395 tonnes from?

 

[burning blue soul]

i did a job once working in a counting house in Salford. i was fixing the AC and had to work inside the counting room. they have these banks of counting machines that are about 20 foot long, they feed the money in one end and it comes out the other counted, weighed and bagged. they also had these mesh cages that are about 1m cubed that they roll the cash around in. each cube (when full) contained £2m.

when i was working there i needed to look at an AC unit hung on the wall. i eventually got up there by standing on two of these mesh boxes with £4m inside them. very surreal experience looking down on £4m!!

working there would drive you mad, i was glad to get out. the vault itself had £20m at the time i was there, but i was told that they usually have about £80m in there!!