[a fool in paradise]

Possession is 9/10ths of the law.

[PapaNew]

Uh, Oh S**t!

http://static.europosters.cz/image/750/8549.jpg

[onyx]

Whoa.
10,000 more to go!
Get it done.

[ken5050]

Years ago ( mid 80's) while on company trip to Switzerland, several us us were on a tour bus heading up towards Interlachen. We were wind our way along those narrow, picturesque 2 lane Swiss roads. All of a sudden, traffic is stopped ahead. We're alongside a good sized, but flat meadow, and we notice what appears to be a runway in the middle of it, but nothing else. Suddenly, the side of the mountain swings open..and THREE Mirage fighters rolled out onto the runway and took off, one after the other. I swear the whole thing, from the mountain opening, to the planes taking off, and the mountain closing, was over in less than TWO minutes. Then the traffic just moved off.

One would think that the Swiss would want to physically hold their own gold.

[Theoria]

Sweet. Musical chairs with gold!

[Del Rapier]

That could be payback for the US and some of the European nations grilling Swiss banks,for tax evasion.Otherwise looks like the gold bugs might have been on to something.

[Jet Jaguar]

Goldbug ping.

[dennisw]

Shell game. Which shell is the gold hidden under?

[Cold Heart]

Sounds like a lot of international distrust going on.

[M-cubed]

NO COUNTRY....I REPETE...NO COUNTRY will ever be allowed to back their currency via gold unless the International Bankers own and pick that country...

worthless "fiat money" (which they can print) is the way they control the gold.... (Give me the printing press and I'll own every ounce of gold that exists!)

[kaboom]

Swiss Want Their Gold Back- All 1040 Tons of It!

That's a lot of teeth

[tennmountainman]

Good luck to the Swiss on getting their gold back from Obama.
The Swiss will soon learn that Obama spent their gold on Welfare, Food Stamps and Obama Phones.

[RegulatorCountry]

Seems like there’s a creeping paranoia that the gold’s just not going to be there, or will be aldulterated with tungsten if it is. Wonder what gave them that crazy idea, lol? Finance the world over acting like mafia, maybe?

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

[Travis McGee]

“HOW BIG IS A TON OF GOLD?”
WikiAnswer:

Hmmm. You have weight and you want size. That means you’ll need density!

Now, the density can be googled. Gold weighs roughly 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter.
Now, you simply divide the number of grams in a ton by the number of grams per cc, and you get the number of cc’s it takes to make a ton.

Assuming you mean a metric ton (1000 kilos), that’s 1,000,000 / 19.32 = 51,760 cubic centimeters.

How big is 51,760 cubic centimeters? The dimensions of a cube are easy to find using a calculator: The cube root of 51,760 is 37.26, so you’d have a 37.26-cm cube. That’s just under 15 inches on each side - yep, a 15-inch cube of gold weighs a ton. Yikes!

A short ton (2000 lbs.) will give a slightly different number, but hopefully you see how the process works.

A TON OF GOLD IS A CUBE ONLY FIFTEEN INCHES ON A SIDE!

[RebelTex]

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