yeah, after impact, quite evenly. last time it happened, it was called iridium anomaly. there’s not that much gold in electronics and other platinum group metals are more useful from material engineering perspective
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snoons@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
At least everything would be covered in gold then. Electronics would be cheaper too.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There is no much specifically because it is expensive.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
there’s not much because it can be plated real thin and more is not necessary
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The accountant vs the engineer
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. If it were as cheap as steel, we wound make whole packages from it. Completely new things.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
? Gold would be a big upgrade over copper
ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Would it? Perhaps it wouldn’t oxidise as fast, but copper is more conductive.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
yes for corrosion resistance and ductility. no for hardness, electrical and heat conductivity. you can’t use gold or its compounds as catalysts where copper makes sense
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
For what? Gold is a shit conductor compared to copper.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s not shit, it’s top 3 behind silver and copper. But those oxidize and gold doesn’t. So a gold coated silver core is what you want.
gnutrino@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It has ~70% the conductivity of pure copper, it’s not “shit”
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
swagmoney@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
i suppose i could duck it, but is gold more conductive than copper or silver? i thought gold was used because it resists oxidation but not because of its conductivity.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’d be cheaper to make.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
Then we kill all the billionaires and then they’re cheaper to have
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
With gold bullets and a gold guillotine. I think they would like that.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Gold plated isn’t actually hard I think I could to that in my bathtub
krisevol@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
It wouldn’t make anything cheaper. We owe more on national debt that all our billionaire could even come close to playing, and that is if China have us market value for the after we would need to sell from the billionaire to extract the value.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Money is fake do you not understand that its like a placeholder an idea of obligation it doesn’t exist materially even these round metal things are just round metal things the money of them is just calvinball