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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

But property is theft, so now you are under arrest

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Just imagine placing this in the front yard as an ornament and watching it sink into the ground from its weight.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

God, I want to drop this thing from orbit on a populated city so much.

Edit: Just as a prank tho.

[–] skibidi@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dropping anything in orbit just means it is still in orbit.

You'd need a lot of fuel to deorbit that cube on a steep trajectory.

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be easy to account for the forwards momentum and just lead on the shot?

[–] skibidi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The issue isn't forwards, it is down.

You have a tungsten rod held in a clamp on a satellite in a nominally stable orbit. Releasing the clamp just means the tungsten rod is now in essentially the same nominally stable orbit as the satellite.

To deorbit it, you need to meaningfully change its velocity. As tungsten is very dense, that takes a lot of fuel. The more fuel that is used, the sooner the rod will hit the ground and the higher the angle.

Simply dropping it means you have to wait months or years for the orbit to naturally decay, a lot of energy will be lost to atmospheric friction, and there is little control over the impact point. Not exactly what you want in your WMD.

[–] Squeezer@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have a cube of tungsten at work that is 40mm x 40 mm, it is comedically heavy. This thing would be nuts.

[–] AugustWest@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I have a cube

That is 40mm x 40mm

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Just to be a troublemaker, everyone is assuming this a solid cube, but what if it was something like 1/4 inch tungsten plates and hollow in the middle?

What would it weigh? Would it float in water?

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago
[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I need tungsten to live!

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 144 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] JayObey711@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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).

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hmmm.

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 55 points 1 week ago (14 children)

2/10 Prize 8/10 Prize if delivery is included

I can put it in the front yard, spray paint it gold, and start a neighborhood cult around The Cube.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You ain't putting it anywhere. It's getting delivered and staying where they put it.

A single 5 foot cube of tungsten would weigh about as much as an above average sized single family home.

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy shit Tom is rich now! If he can move it though.

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How did they put it on the stage?

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They built the stage around the cube.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They grew the Earth around the cube.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

The Cube has always been there. The Cube is eternal. All hail the Cube.

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

This could possibly be the worst possible prize. Raw tungsten isn’t actually that expensive. What’s expensive is working with it as it melts 3,410c (6,170f) isn’t very malleable and is heavy like really really heavy to move this block you will probably need larger equipment than standard industrial moving equipment, bigger trucks and loaders also you’ll need to get the city's permission to haul it on the roads , that alone is probably going to cost more than the cube is worth you will then have to pay a monthly storage fee until someone wants to buy it. Shouldn’t be that long right? It’s a valuable metal… well good luck finding a company that works with tungsten outside of china, and you absolutely can not ship it. But let’s assume you find someone who wants it(at a considerable discount) well now you have to higher the specialized movers again.

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Actually I just did the math and plugged in all the known values I could find and assuming you could sell it within the first year you could probably make $700,000, so it would still be well worth it. But a lot of trouble.

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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Assuming that's a meter cubed it weighs 19 tons, or 65 tons for 1.5m³

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[–] merari42@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NCD would probably be delighted to have something that can be turned into multiple rods from god

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

It's being teleported to your location as we speak. I hope you don't mind it would redesign a couple of floors below you.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago

If I had one of those in my living room, my house would collapse.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I really wanted to use Tungsten as the base ballast for a custom narrowboat, for better headroom. Other than the cost you also have the problem of tungsten’s melting point being so high you can’t pour it into a boat hull without melting through.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

You also can't melt it in general outside of some high tech magnetic field induction chambers, as doing so would melt the furnace in most cases.

Almost all industrial applications of tungsten involve electrochemistry or otherwise the mixing of fine tungsten dust.

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[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd want to put this in front of the house. No one would steel it ever. lol

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Of course not. It's tungsten. Not steel.

[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a Peter Molyneux game. "And if you click on the cube, you might win another cube"

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