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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

The grand prize

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The grand prize

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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    Assuming that’s about 5x5’, and going by the price of the first tungsten cube found on Google, this would be worth about 15 million dollars. Decent prize of you could move 150,000lb.

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      Hmmm.

      So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.

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        Welcome to another exciting episode of CAN! YOU! FENCE THIS?!?!*

        Alright contestants, this week your prize is: 600 tons of wood chips! Whoever earns the most money selling your prize will be our lucky winner and move on to round 2.

        Reminds me of an impromptu back and forth prank a set of brothers used to pull on each other where they regifted each other a pair of hideous moleskin pants in increasingly elaborate ways.

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          I’d watch the fuck out of that.

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            I think I’m going to pitch it to the History channel. Maybe see if I can get Jason Murphy on board.

            “Welcome to Can You Fence This, the game show about finding buyers for valuable yet burdensome objects. Ordinary contestants will compete to unload their consignments for the most money without destroying public infrastructure.”

            Shoot it in Nevada, lots of establishing shots of the cast standing with their arms folded in very orange light.

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        Best I can do is a copy of Battletoads

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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        About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.

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          Typically people take the cash value on prizes like that. Because not inly do you have to figure out what to do with what you won, you also have to pay taxes on the value of it.

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      Melt it.

      Wait…

      • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Eat it!

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          Bop it

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            Flick it!

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              Pull it!

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                Suck it! (¬‿¬)

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                  Twist it!

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                    Yank It!

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        Nobody doesn’t like molten tungsten!

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      Going with your 5’ x 5’ x 5’ size, that should weigh about 132,624 pounds, or about 66.3 tons. The price, as of 2018, was about $30,000/ton. That works out to be about $2M.

      Still a pretty heft prize.

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        Didn’t calculate the price by weight. Just took the number from the 6" cube here and extrapolated from that since it was the easiest math.

        https://shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/

        The 5’ cube is 1000 times the size of the 6" cube and the 6" cube is $15k. The prices don’t scale up linearly though. The smaller cubes are better value by weight.

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          I’ll make my own cubes! Will a sawsall get through that motherfucker?

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            Of course! It’s “saws all” not “can’t saw tungsten”!

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      Unless there is some clause talking about time to receive or “only the participant”, then I would sell this thing at a fraction of the price and frolic into the sunset. Let someone else deal with the logistics, I just made an easy Mil.

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      It’s about letting go…

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      this would be worth about 15 million dollars

      But where and to whom?

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      In reall units and currencies thats about 68 tonnes (or around 50 VW Golfs) and 13,8 Million Euros (or 1/11000 of the money we lost due to cum-ex).

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