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[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 120 points 13 hours ago (8 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.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 32 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Hmmm.

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 9 hours ago

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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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago
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[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] ThelittleDoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

It's about letting go...

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (2 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 13 points 8 hours 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.

[–] Jon_Servo@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Aircraft use tungsten ballast plates. I know it requires hardware, but would that have been viable?

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 hours 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.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How did they put it on the stage?

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 33 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They built the stage around the cube.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They grew the Earth around the cube.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 hours ago

The cube came from the skies, the visitors brought it.

Spawned it in with a console command.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Me too. It’s worth over $1 million.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

But the guy above said fif... You know what, I'll give you $1 million.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

To be fair, these estimates here are just guessing the actual size and composition of that cube. Still, that’s a lot of tungsten.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] Zwiebel 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago
[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

The cube is so heavy, it presses a hole into the floor.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Throw it in the water! I want to se what happens!

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cows_are_underrated 3 points 6 hours ago

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)

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Good luck retrieving your giant tungsten payday from the murky depths now.

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