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WarrenPuff_It t1_j30cta8 wrote

Reply to comment by fredsam25 in TIL that all the gold that has ever been mined in all of human history could fill about three Olympic-sized swimming pools. by westondeboer

Do you understand how easy it is to recycle gold off electronics? What makes you think a tennis court would be a difficult surface to separate gold from?

You dont need to remove it from the tennis court, you can dig up the whole tennis court and dissolve the gold in a solution and reconstitute it as a purified ball of gold. You can just shovel the whole thing into a smelter and melt it off. Everything not gold will float to the top.

This is a non-event, if people are willing to dig a mile underground through quartz and granite using explosives and mercury baths to get gold dust out of the ground, why do you think a tennis court will be any type of obstacle? It would be picked clean that day.

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fredsam25 t1_j30df40 wrote

The wind would blow half of it away.

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WarrenPuff_It t1_j30e4us wrote

People pan for gold dust in the streets of NYC. You are underestimating how quickly that wafer thin gold will be pulled up by whoever is working it.

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fredsam25 t1_j30fb5l wrote

You're better off not putting it on a tennis court in the first place.

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