"All the gold ever mined could fill just 3 Olympic swimming pools..."

[BirdOPrey5]

Direct quote from the History Channel- Mankind: The Story of All of Us show... episode 2.

I have to call BS on this, there is no way that is possible... Unless an Olympic swimming pool is bigger than the "Olympic size" swimming pool we had at college. A LOT bigger.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

Wikipedia Link


50 ft long x 25 ft wide... unfortunately no standard depth it seems... but min volume of 2.5 Million Liters... (88,000 cu ft.)

hmmmm...

according to this 1 ton of Gold would only be a 20" cube... That is a lot heavier than I suspected.. but still not sure about this.

How much would one rectanglar block ton of gold weigh and what exactly would its dimensions be? - Yahoo! Answers

 

[Ralph]

According to teh wiki the total volume of gold ever mined is 8500 cubic meters.
Wikipedia Link

Also according to teh wiki, the minimum volume of an olympic swimming pool is 2500 cubic meters. This assumes a depth of 2 meters. They only give a minimum because the depth requirement is a minimum.
Wikipedia Link

It adds up

Density of gold is 19.30 g/cubic cm...

 

[abqtj]

I'd LOVE a 20" cube of gold!

That would be worth over $50 million

 

[BirdOPrey5]

When I become supreme world overlord I am going to put all the gold into 3 Olympic size swimming pools in the middle of the desert, then detonate the largest nuclear bomb available right in the middle to redistribute wealth.

 

[abqtj]

Who gets the front row seats?

 

[Ralph]

Remember that gold is so soft that in most cases it is alloyed for strength, or plated over a less expensive substrate.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

I wonder if an all-gold asteroid crashed into your property, would you legally own it?

 

[Ralph]

I wonder if an all-gold asteroid crashed into your property, would you legally own it?

I'm not fawkin telling anyone if it does

 

[synonymous]

I wonder if an all-gold asteroid crashed into your property, would you legally own it?

It would slag off with the quickness in the atmosphere.

 

[synonymous]

Funny, but when I heard that same quote I said same thing... BULLSHIT. Guess its true. I say that because think about how many gold wedding rings there are, the gold in fort knox, the gold used in Manf. processes and electronics, the gold people horde, etc.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

There's no Gold in Ft. Knox.