Where that metal in your coins originated... according to astronomers

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  1. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    and a lot of the stuff in your body as well. Kind of cool. Kind of creepy ;-)

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171024.html

    ... carbon and oxygen: nuclear fusion in the interior of stars
    ... iron: supernovas of stars that occurred long ago and far away
    ... gold was likely made from neutron star collisions

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  3. SorenCoins

    SorenCoins Well-Known Member

    Wow this is really interesting!
     
    SorenCoins, Oct 24, 2017
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  4. wxcoin

    wxcoin Getting no respect since I was a baby

    Nothing good came out of my Buick-deer collision:)
     
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  5. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    Yep. The whole "we are stardust" thing can be quite overwhelming if you think about it.

    It's good to keep the ecological impact of PM mining and extraction in mind -- but, WOW, the mess their original manufacture made! Reducing whole solar systems to ions and dust, if not subatomic debris...
     
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  6. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator


    What, no element of SURPRISE?
     
    ToughCOINS, Oct 24, 2017
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  7. wxcoin

    wxcoin Getting no respect since I was a baby

    Just a deer in the headlights look.
     
    wxcoin, Oct 24, 2017
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  8. davidh

    davidh soloist gnomic

    And some day when the sun becomes a red giant and swallows up the earth, all your coins, and every atom in whatever your body has become, will be totally vaporized and assimilated.
     
    davidh, Oct 24, 2017
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  9. SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom

    SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom Well-Known Member

    Which will be chalked up to collateral post mint damage.
     
    SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom, Oct 24, 2017
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  10. SorenCoins

    SorenCoins Well-Known Member

    Funny relevant topic. Scientists just witnessed the collision of two neutrons stars, creating tooonss of gold and iron!
     
    SorenCoins, Oct 24, 2017
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  11. TONYBRONX

    TONYBRONX Well-Known Member

    WHAT NO VITAMIN C?
     
    TONYBRONX, Oct 25, 2017
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  12. Lemme Caution

    Lemme Caution Well-Known Member

    Entire multiple earth-size planet equivalent amounts of gold and platinum; it's beyond mind-boggling!
     
    Lemme Caution, Oct 25, 2017
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  13. Lemme Caution

    Lemme Caution Well-Known Member

    Taken on a relative universal scale, the inter-galactic value of those two "precious metals" just dropped to below that of earth rocks.
     
    Lemme Caution, Oct 25, 2017
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  14. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Careful now or you're going to start "thinking". :) And once you start thinking, well all sorts of weird things begin to happen. For example, when viewed from the proper perspective, even an earth bound perspective, it soon becomes obvious that - it (the inter-galactic value of those two "precious metals" just dropped to below that of earth rocks.) always has been.

    You see, what is more valuable, plain ordinary dirt or gold and platinum ? Plain ordinary dirt is what keeps all life on earth living. Plain ordinary dirt is what allows plants to grow. And plants not only produce the oxygen we breathe they also provide the food we eat in one way or another and have a profound influence on our weather. All of which are things that keep us alive.

    So what's more valuable - plain ordinary dirt, or gold and platinum ? Which one has true intrinsic value ? ;)
     
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  15. wxcoin

    wxcoin Getting no respect since I was a baby

    All I can say is that the dentist didn't fill my mouth with dirt:)
     
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  16. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Maybe not, but gold and platinum don't keep you alive - dirt does !
     
    GDJMSP, Oct 25, 2017
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  17. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    That belongs on a t-shirt or coffee mug.
     
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  18. wxcoin

    wxcoin Getting no respect since I was a baby

    I wasn't arguing with that. Dead things help keep us alive.
     
    wxcoin, Oct 25, 2017
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  19. sakata

    sakata Devil's Advocate

    So what about the requirement that all gold used in US coins originates in the USA?
     
    sakata, Oct 25, 2017
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  20. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    Better fire up the cyclotrons, I guess...
     
    -jeffB, Oct 25, 2017
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  21. Lemme Caution

    Lemme Caution Well-Known Member

    In this you are absolutely, 100% correct...you certainly can't breathe, drink, eat, or grow anything in gold. :greedy:
     
    Lemme Caution, Oct 25, 2017
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