Earth's Inner Fort Knox [Earth's core has 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold]

Discover magazine ^ | September 2006 | Anne Wootton

[verum ago]

It's surface was never an ocean of molten magma or it wouldn't still be outgassing millions of tons of methane and helium every year.

why not? the earth has a huge volume that probably couldn't all degass-- especially since gases dissolve better under pressure like that deep under the surface

[sully777]

Better buy gold.

[STARWISE]

That would be super .... next time you go, you should. It's fun .. rings and things get lost. You can find things at the beach. My ex fil found a diamond ring.

[taxesareforever]

Just another version of "I have a dream".

[LibWhacker]

It'd be a cinch. Venus must have a lot of gold in its core, too. So just crash Earth into Venus and go in afterwards and pick up all the gold nuggets in the debris.

Oh, wait . . .

[WestVirginiaRebel]

There's gold in them thar' core!

[Schwaeky]

just put Auric Goldfinger on the job, I'm sure he'll figure out a way to get it all...

[Billthedrill]

Back off, you bums. It's directly under my front yard.

[Constantine XIII]

You can't blow up the Earth...that's where I keep all of my stuff! :)

[Screamname]

There`s also tons of gold floating in the ocean although you can`t see it. If you were to invent a device though could attract only gold particles and ignore everything else and you put it in the ocean for a time then pulled it out, after a time you would have enough gold to cover every tooth of Flavor Flavs teeth.

"Yeeeeaaaahhhh Booooyyyy!"

[RunningWolf]

My question to them is so what?

IMO the only value gold has anymore (other than jewelry and industry) is as a currency of crisis.

Thats why the price is so volatile going both up and back down.

What do you think?

[razorbak]

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

Rev 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

[Thinkin' Gal]

there's enough gold in Earth's core to coat its surface in 1.5 feet of the stuff. How did it get there?

Alchemy.

[mkjessup]

Golden Oldies baby, get used to it! :)

[HEY4QDEMS]

I other news; Mr T just placed an order for 100 shovels.

[Dahoser]

I'll get my best man on the job.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'm firing up the drill!

[Renegade]

Horace Greeley " Go DOWN young man !"

[agere_contra]

I thought that the core was diamonds (or is that Europa)?

I hope its not Europa. You know perfectly well the monolith-aliens won't let us go there.

[Tulsa Brian]

I thought it had a secret civilization of Freemasons, Templars and Rosicrucians...