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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
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To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (81255)1/30/2002 10:30:17 AM
From: Richnorth  Read Replies (4) of 116752
 
Since that ancient star (BD + 173248) has plenty of gold, platinum (which are very dense metals) and silver, its gravitational pull will be rather high. As a consequence, spaceships are likely to have a hard time landing there. Lift off, especially with heavy pay loads of the precious metals, may well be impossible???

But I suppose that where the PGMs are concerned, there's no obstacle so great that it cannot be surmounted, eh? Ah! but times have changed! Now gold is considered a "barbaric relic" of a bygone era. Why bother to sweat for it when it is easier to print unlimited amounts of fiat money, eh?

By the way, in Prescott's "History of the Conquest of Peru" there's a line, presumably borrowed from the Spaniards:-

"There is no mountain so high that an ass laden with gold cannot pass................."
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