I’d want to put this in front of the house. No one would steel it ever. lol
Of course not. It’s tungsten. Not steel.
All I can think of, sorry.
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.
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.
I assume dumped on the yard would be the only delivery option.
Lol it looks even a decent forklift maxes out at 70k lbs
That cube would be in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars of tungsten
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.
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…
Just get egyptians to move it
If they won’t deliver The Cube at their expense, they should have given out a more reasonable prize.
It’s a challenge prize.
“Oh you think you won The Cube? Then come and get it”.Then three months later a new person wins The Cube.
That is… surprisingly little. Are you sure?
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.
How does one join the cult for The Cube?
One must simply gaze upon the glory of The Cube. The Cube will invite you in, keep you warm, keep you safe. The Cube welcomes all. The Cube just wants to share.
Cube!
Cube is life.
Holy shit Tom is rich now! If he can move it though.
How did they put it on the stage?
They built the stage around the cube.
They grew the Earth around the cube.
The Cube has always been there. The Cube is eternal. All hail the Cube.
Spawned it in with a console command.
Throw it in the water! I want to se what happens!
It sinks.
Tungsten isn’t reactive with water, it’s not an alkali metal.
Sodium, lithium, potassium etc (alkali metals) would react violently with water though.
A frankium cube that big would be neat. Only downside is, that half of it is decayed after like 7 Minutes(if I remember correctly)
I was remembering it wrong. Oops. In chemistry class, we had a professor who put a cube of some material into water and it skidded along the surface making very angry noises. Can’t remember which element that was.
Good luck retrieving your giant tungsten payday from the murky depths now.
Probably Potassium
K
Catmium
Please deliver this to my moon base
Assuming that’s a meter cubed it weighs 19 tons, or 65 tons for 1.5m³
I’m seeing $30,000 per ton there (as of 2018) so wouldn’t the cubic meter cost about $645,000?
They misplaced the comma or used a weird system distinct from the Western or Indian one
But property is theft, so now you are under arrest
I need tungsten to live!
I unironically want this
Me too. It’s worth over $1 million.
But the guy above said fif… You know what, I’ll give you $1 million.
To be fair, these estimates here are just guessing the actual size and composition of that cube. Still, that’s a lot of tungsten.
The cube is so heavy, it presses a hole into the floor.
I see why he’s smiling
Why the heck are you giving an llm a math problem?
Yeah pretty sure everything people are using llms to calculate can be calulated easily with wolfram alpha.
Edit: ive checked yes you just type it in and it does it for you, and it says 3million instead of 2.6 and i will trust wolfram not chatgpt
Lazy
LLMs can’t actually do math…
They can do it better than I can at 7 am. I just sit there and drool looking at my screen
I just asked it and it says that it can.
Checkmate.
Yep, read it and weep, haters:
I find it to be very annoying to use for linear algebra, statistics, finance, and differential equations. Mostly because it often makes rounding errors or halucinates a number/process.
Ask it if it can write instructions on how to multiply those numbers without a calculator
It said “yeah”.
Double checkmate.
Damn yo
I can’t debate that
Well that seemed to be perfect, doesn’t chat gpt outsource its math to Wolfram Alpha or something now?
Wolfram is Latin for tungsten so I’d trust it more than anything else
Turns out it managed to do it right this time, so, maybe!
That I don’t know. But regardless, the LLM can’t do it :P
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.
You divided by 2 instead of 2000 on your pounds/tons conversion.
Good thing I’m not an accountant
Well this isn’t some mundane detail, Michael!
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.
It’s being teleported to your location as we speak. I hope you don’t mind it would redesign a couple of floors below you.
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?
