I can't find any text to go along with this graphic, but it's still interesting. The objects around the perimeter of this cube of all the (mined) gold "in the world" are a long semi-trailer truck, an extended-cab pickup on top of the cube, and a good-sized but not particularly stylish house in the foreground. That's a B-2 bomber (wingspan, 172 feet) in the background. I'm not sure what the two smaller cubes in front of the house represent ("maybe" this year's production).
I found this blurb here. If all the gold ever mined was melted into a solid cube, the cube with sides of 20.5m would fit in an Olympic Swimming Pool. The small gold sphere, in front of the cash couch, weighs 1 metric ton exactly, with a value over $50 Million dollars. I don't understand the swimming pool statement.
I found the source, the website www.demonocracy.info , which creates graphics to illustrate economic and other trends. Some of their other stuff is interesting; looks like another bookmark for my list. One of the other subjects on their Home page is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: "This article visualizes the illusion of safety. There is ~370 times more money in deposits at US banks than the size of the Federal Deposit Insurance Fund..." ========== Dougmeister's "here" is in fact the demonocracy website...
If you look carefully, the giant cube of gold (along with house, etc). are sitting in the swimming pool in the picture. It is just to give you a size comparison.
But isn't that saying that "all the gold ever mined" would fit in the swimming pool? How is that possible? What is the "HUGE" cube of gold with the truck on top then?
Not sure if you are being serious.....I sure hope not. The huge cube of gold represents all the gold ever mined. If you melted it all together and made a big cube, that would be the size of it. And it is saying it would sit down in the pool.... but obviously it is taller than the edge of the pool.
I missed the swimming pool!!!!!!!!!!!!! But here's the stats from Wikipedia: The Federation Internationale de Natation regulates the design, layout and overall measurements of Olympic-size swimming pools. FINA functions to create consistency between different pools to ensure they meet the required measurements and is recognized by the International Olympic Committee. FINA also oversees swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming. The committee has a written set of rules that includes every required measurement for the pool. Volume Olympic-size swimming pool are approximately 50 m or 164 feet in length, 25 m or 82 feet in width, and 2 m or 6 feet in depth. These measurements create a surface area of 13,454.72 square feet and a volume of 88,263 cubic feet. The pool has 660,253.09 gallons of water, which equals about 5,511,556 lbs. ================= So actually if reconfigured, the gold would be completely underwater, well below the surface. The cube 38 feet on a side = 38 x 38 x 38 = 54,872 cubic feet, compared to the 88,263 cubic feet cited above. The pool in the original graphic is out of scale (in depth), obviously.
Its debatable, what about the ancient Egyptians, they never kept records of how much was mined 6000 years ago. How much has been lost or hidden ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21969100
