• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Just to be a troublemaker, everyone is assuming this a solid cube, but what if it was something like 1/4 inch tungsten plates and hollow in the middle?

    What would it weigh? Would it float in water?

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    I have a cube of tungsten at work that is 40mm x 40 mm, it is comedically heavy. This thing would be nuts.

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    5 days ago

    Just imagine plackng this in the front yard as an ornament and watching it sink into the ground from its weight.

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    6 days ago

    God, I want to drop this thing from orbit on a populated city so much.

    Edit: Just as a prank tho.

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      Dropping anything in orbit just means it is still in orbit.

      You’d need a lot of fuel to deorbit that cube on a steep trajectory.

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        Wouldn’t it be easy to account for the forwards momentum and just lead on the shot?

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    6 days ago

    I like how there’s so many comments about the value of the cube, and no two comments have the same value.

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      I mean if you get it in bulk it might be cheaper… but at the same time that would probably be really hard to make and take a major portion of the tungsten supply to make.

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    I just looked it up; assuming that thing’s about 5ft³, that thing is worth like $54,000. Granted, you’re going to need somebody to come haul it off, but at 10.66k per cubic foot, I’d say it’s not a bad prize.

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    Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.

    That’s an impressively sturdy floor.

    Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.

    The block weighs 54,754.19 tons.

    So this is indeed a fantastic prize at $18,616,425 USD.

    All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.

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      My immediate response was to do the same calc. But using SI units, because I don’t live in Myanmar or the USA.

      I figure that it’s a cube, and judging by the size of the lucky winner, I would guess that the sides are 1.5m. 3.375m^3 at 19.254 g/cm^3 is roughly 65 tons. According to https://www.metal.com/Tungsten/202212260004 tungsten bars are trading for 49USD/kg. IDK where you got 340 USD/ton, but we seem to differ.

      65 tons at 49 USD/kg is 3’185’000 USD.

      I’d say that a solid homogeneous of tungsten should probably fetch a fair bit more than my price. Casting a cube like that is not going to be easy. Tungsten is rather reactive in the molten form, and has to be kept from air. Just alone keeping 65 tons of molten tungsten under a protective layer of inergen gas is going to be challenging.

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    6 days ago

    NCD would probably be delighted to have something that can be turned into multiple rods from god

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    6 days ago

    2/10 Prize 8/10 Prize if delivery is included

    I can put it in the front yard, spray paint it gold, and start a neighborhood cult around The Cube.

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      You ain’t putting it anywhere. It’s getting delivered and staying where they put it.

      A single 5 foot cube of tungsten would weigh about as much as an above average sized single family home.

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        I’m betting I got it a few months before someone can gather the equipment to steal it. It would have outlived its novelty and likely be a burden at that point. If the cult works out The Cube should be self sufficient and could even become a profitable local attraction.

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          A tungsten cube that size would weigh a fuckload.

          To just deliver it would be an undertaking. There will be roads between you and the where ever this came from that are not rated for that weight.

          You may need a specialized truck just to move it, and a crane to get it on and off said truck…

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          I mean, I can only estimate it’s size from the person standing next to it. From there I can use that estimate to get the volume of the cube, then the weight, then look up the cost by weight right now and apply the average.

          So it would be somewhere around 1mm by weight.