That's not much gold
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What if a super-villain took control of the world's gold a melted it in to a cube? How big would it be? Wesley Stephenson finds out.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
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| 0:49.4 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Wesley Stevenson and I'm |
| 0:54.3 | Charlotte McDonald. Now imagine if you were an international supervillain who'd acquired all the gold in the world |
| 1:06.5 | and you decided to melt it down and make a cube. You couldn't. Why not? |
| 1:12.0 | James Bond would stop you. |
| 1:14.0 | Look, Charlotte, you're kind of spoiling my intro here. |
| 1:17.0 | Sorry, but he would. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay. Well, let's pretend Bond's busy. |
| 1:21.0 | He's on the other side of the world and is completely oblivious to the gold melting exploits of our supervillain |
| 1:25.8 | One of our listeners Julia says she's heard the cube would only be 60 feet along each side or about 18 meters. |
| 1:33.2 | But that seems tiny. |
| 1:34.8 | Perhaps, but it may not be far off. |
| 1:36.8 | According to Thompson Reuters Goldfield Mineral Studies or G.FMS, |
| 1:41.2 | which is generally thought to be the authority on this matter. |
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