http://www.webelements.com/periodicity/abundance_crust/ According to this reference, Earth's crust contains 3.1ppb of gold, 37ppb of platinum....
I remember those from childhood trips to the beach, some 40 years ago now. I think I got an 1892-O Barber dime out of one. AG or cull, but my...
I'd respond with positive feedback, something like "gave prompt and courteous refund to resolve issue with item". I don't even ding people on the...
I spend so much time asking people about acronyms (here and at my job) that I might as well consider it a shared hobby. Or was this where I'm...
Precious Metals.
As I understand it, Symantec (the company) keeps a centralized database of sites on which viruses have been detected, and your local Safe Web...
Second dry week in a row. :( The bank where somebody had been dumping silver halves had no halves at all, and neither did the two other banks I tried.
You missed another "fun fact": if one could have legally presented one of these bills in exchange for gold (at the legally-defined rate of...
Yes, you're right; nothing goes up or down in a straight line -- including silver. But you can bundle a bunch of different things into a basket,...
So the price of silver has risen sharply, almost sixfold, since 2005 (never mind the abrupt fourfold drop in 2008). Your thesis is that today's...
And that, in a nutshell, is why I spend very little time on the sites you mentioned -- the rampant paranoia. Paranoids have been screaming about...
Don't give in completely to that compulsion, though -- platinum is 12 times as abundant as gold, almost half as abundant as silver. On the other...
Of course. It also sometimes goes up. :)
Once again: There was inflation even when the dollar was backed by silver. Period. The value of silver, in terms of any other measure or...
I'll keep pointing out that the dollar lost over 75% of its purchasing power between 1901 and 1964 -- while it was backed by silver. In other...
Yes, olive oil can contain acids as impurities. Even if it doesn't, though, they can form over time. Vegetable oils (and nut oils, animal fats,...
Continue as you are, and if you get an unexpected request to type your password (for administrative access), DON'T DO IT. I've been a Mac user...
Taxidermist, thanks for doing the legwork on this. I wanted to point out that yes, you very well can get hit by malware just by viewing a JPEG,...
Happy (shared) birthday! I was born on this same day, during the height of the Cold War. With all that's wrong in the world today, it's still...
And I picked up one from a $4 bin at a show in January. It was the only one left. That, like the ones you found, was what I would classify as a...
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