Melt it.
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Sestren@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nobody doesn’t like molten tungsten!
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
Sestren@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Didn’t calculate the price by weight. Just took the number from the 6" cube here and extrapolated from that since it was the easiest math.
shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/
The 5’ cube is 1000 times the size of the 6" cube and the 6" cube is $15k. The prices don’t scale up linearly though. The smaller cubes are better value by weight.
Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
I’ll make my own cubes! Will a sawsall get through that motherfucker?
Skjolle@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Of course! It’s “saws all” not “can’t saw tungsten”!
Xanis@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s about letting go…
superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
this would be worth about 15 million dollars
But where and to whom?
JayObey711@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Hmmm.
So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Welcome to another exciting episode of CAN! YOU! FENCE THIS?!?!*
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.
Machinist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d watch the fuck out of that.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think I’m going to pitch it to the History channel. Maybe see if I can get Jason Murphy on board.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Best I can do is a copy of Battletoads
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 weeks 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.