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.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Hmmm.
So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.
About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.
Typically people take the cash value on prizes like that. Because not inly do you have to figure out what to do with what you won, you also have to pay taxes on the value of it.
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Melt it.
Wait....
Eat it!
Bop it
Flick it!
Pull it!
Suck it! (¬‿¬)
Twist it!
Yank It!
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Unless there is some clause talking about time to receive or "only the participant", then I would sell this thing at a fraction of the price and frolic into the sunset. Let someone else deal with the logistics, I just made an easy Mil.
It's about letting go...
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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.
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.
Aircraft use tungsten ballast plates. I know it requires hardware, but would that have been viable?
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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.
Holy shit Tom is rich now! If he can move it though.
How did they put it on the stage?
They built the stage around the cube.
They grew the Earth around the cube.
The Cube has always been there. The Cube is eternal. All hail the Cube.
The cube came from the skies, the visitors brought it.
Spawned it in with a console command.
I unironically want this
Me too. It’s worth over $1 million.
But the guy above said fif... You know what, I'll give you $1 million.
To be fair, these estimates here are just guessing the actual size and composition of that cube. Still, that’s a lot of tungsten.
Assuming that's a meter cubed it weighs 19 tons, or 65 tons for 1.5m³
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The cube is so heavy, it presses a hole into the floor.
Throw it in the water! I want to se what happens!
It sinks.
Tungsten isn't reactive with water, it's not an alkali metal.
Sodium, lithium, potassium etc (alkali metals) would react violently with water though.
A frankium cube that big would be neat. Only downside is, that half of it is decayed after like 7 Minutes(if I remember correctly)
I was remembering it wrong. Oops. In chemistry class, we had a professor who put a cube of some material into water and it skidded along the surface making very angry noises. Can't remember which element that was.
Good luck retrieving your giant tungsten payday from the murky depths now.
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