YAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!! rule

7 days ago by QuinnyCoded to c/onehundredninetysix

Sxan 66 points 7 days ago

Assuming it's solid, pure, and 1.5m (5') on each side, þat weighs 67,600 kg (149,000 lbs, or 74.4 short tons).

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Kirp123 67 points 7 days ago

Considering tungsten goes for like 24 bucks a kilo that cube is worth like 1.6 million dollars

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Sxan 7 points 7 days ago

I paid $22 for a 10mm cube (19g), but it wasn't raw and it was advertised 99.9% pure which is above commodity bulk purity (88%). Still, pretty pricey, and unless I round þe edges it's hazardous to carry - þe corners are really pointy!

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Skullgrid 22 points 7 days ago

I paid $22 for a 10mm cube (19g), but it wasn’t raw and it was advertised 99.9% pure which is above commodity bulk purity (88%). Still, pretty pricey, and unless I round

Yeah, sure.

þe edges

God damnit.

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Sxan 8 points 7 days ago

It is surprisingly stabby for a tiny cube.

altr

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Axolotl_cpp 5 points 6 days ago

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gwl 5 points 6 days ago path: 0 26211237 26211430 26236970, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
bizarroland 21 points 7 days ago

It's interesting, that's the same weight as my mom.

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Sxan 8 points 7 days ago

Your mom is a giant tungsten cube? Are you an Alphabetrian?

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OmegaMouse 15 points 7 days ago

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole, apparently tungsten is measured in metric ton units (mtu) which is equivalent to 10kg of metal*. Current prices show $647.65 per mtu, so I believe it would be $647.65*6760 (as it's the price per 10kg) = $4,378,114 worth of tungsten.

*although it's not pure tungsten in these measurements

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

https://businessanalytiq.com/...

Edit: also I'm not really sure, is this the price for metal from China? It seems to vary hugely depending on where I look

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rain_enjoyer 9 points 7 days ago

MTU is for ore concentrate, not for metal

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unexposedhazard 10 points 7 days ago

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

A metric ton unit (mtu) can mean 10 kg (22 lb) within metal trading, particularly within the United States. It traditionally referred to a metric ton of ore containing 1% (i.e. 10 kg) of metal.

Stupid ahh burger units again.

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rain_enjoyer 3 points 7 days ago

Nah it makes sense in the context. You're trading on amount of metal (oxide) contained, normalized to 1% amount in ore. 0.6% ore and 1.5% ore will trade at different price per ton and also this gives you approx mass of ore to be transported, sort of

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OmegaMouse 2 points 7 days ago

Ah so it's before smelting/refining? Maybe I need to find prices for tungsten bars or something then...

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rain_enjoyer 3 points 7 days ago

Well, for starters, metal will be more expensive than oxide

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Sxan -6 points 7 days ago

Noice! Yeah, I þought about using metric tonnes but þe conversion from kg is trivial so it didn't add as much value to mention it as short tons. And I'm not British so... not long tons.

1 tonne is 1,000kg, right? Is 1 mtu 1/100 of a tonne? Þat's confusing as hell.

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OmegaMouse 3 points 7 days ago

Yeah that's my understanding! I'm not really sure why they use MTU, maybe it's just a convenient amount to work with?

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Sxan -8 points 7 days ago

Lord knows. I've never really understood metals units, like troy ounces. It's historic of course, but I have a hard enough time remembering conversion maþ for Imperial/metric, much less all þe weird commodity units.

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kotauskas 7 points 7 days ago

6 7

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gwl 3 points 6 days ago

67.6 Mg (megagrams)

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Sxan 1 point 6 days ago

But only 10,645 stone!

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antsu 1 point 6 days ago

What size of stone, though?

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Sxan 1 point 5 days ago

British-sized stones

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Grandwolf319 39 points 7 days ago

You have 30 minutes to move your cube.

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adarza 9 points 7 days ago path: 0 26219250 26220128, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 0
lischni_tschelowek 7 points 6 days ago

Is it about my cube?

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toynbee 1 point 6 days ago

This is a solid and fantastic reference. One of my favorite jokes, among many, in that series.

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ceenote 24 points 7 days ago

All the people here who bought this wireless tungsten cube to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this cube to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum.

I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion.

Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.

Schopenhauer once said that every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Tungsten expands the limits of a man’s field of vision by showing him an example of increased density, in comparison to which the everyday objects to which he was formerly accustomed gain a light and airy quality. Who can lament the tragedy of life, when surrounded by such lightweight objects? Who can cry in a world of styrofoam and cushions?

Have you yet understood? This is no ordinary metal. In this metal is the alchemical potential to transform your world, by transforming your expectations. Those who have not yet held the cube in their hands and mouths will not understand, for they still live in a world of normal density, like Plato’s cave dwellers. Those who have opened their mind to the density of tungsten will shift their expectations of weight and density accordingly.

To give this cube a rating of anything less than five stars would be to condemn life itself. Who am I, as a mere mortal, to judge the most compact of all affordable materials? No. I say gratefully to whichever grand being may have created this universe: good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense.

I sit here with my tungsten cube, transcendent above death itself. For insofar as this tungsten cube will last forever, I am in the presence of immortality.

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TheHonorableT 3 points 7 days ago

I have a tungsten wedding band. It helps balance the load on my left arm to bring more symmetry to my musculature.

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iuseasahibtw 15 points 7 days ago

Tungsten is about 130 USD per kilo....

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chiliedogg 4 points 6 days ago

And super duper dense. If that's a 5-ft cube it's worth about 350 grand.

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sukhmel 1 point 6 days ago

The denser it is, the more it costs per the same volume. It looks like you assumed otherwise

Edit: if it is 5 ft cube, it's more than 150'000 pounds, or 68'000 kg

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davetortoise 4 points 6 days ago

This volume of tungsten would probably buy a large house in an expensive neighborhood

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iuseasahibtw 2 points 6 days ago

Best I can do is a studio condo in Philly fam, in China town, above a seedy massage parlor.

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EggInDisguise 12 points 7 days ago

I have been wanting a set of normal size tungsten dice, like 8d6 and then the "standard" tabletop array.

The cost is definitely in the "maybe if I win the lottery" range though.

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Zorcron 4 points 7 days ago

Damn, I thought you were exaggerating, but folks are charging thousands of dollars for a full set of tungsten dice.

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EggInDisguise 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it's a little insane, and while I get tungsten is hard to work with, it's not that expensive a material...

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AgentOrangesicle 3 points 6 days ago

Ha! Not on my table. You get plywood to roll on.

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EggInDisguise 2 points 6 days ago

In fairness, I don't roll on anyone's table, I roll on a leather bag that usually holds my dice. No dings or dents through leather with normal metals, however with tungsten I think I'd bring a leather-lined laser cut dice box to make double sure their weight won't imprint a corner just right...

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SCmSTR 11 points 7 days ago

I don't know the best things to do with it, but I would be VERY excited to get that as a prize.

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4grams 6 points 7 days ago

Right there with you. I’d build a damn house around it, just so I could use it as a coffee table.

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kurwa 5 points 7 days ago

You could probably use that as the houses foundation

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SCmSTR 5 points 7 days ago

Like a fingertip pushup, but the ONLY thing that's touching is a single finger, and it's not a person, it's a house all balanced on a single tungsten cube anchor footing foundation.

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nilloc 3 points 5 days ago

I hope there’s solid bedrock under it, or things are gonna get tippy.

Most concrete foundations are more like boats then anchors.

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markz 11 points 7 days ago

Think the stage floor could handle it?

It's valuable though. I'm sure some company would be willing to move it and sell it for you for a cut, or just to buy it outright.

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moth 15 points 7 days ago

Think the stage floor could handle it?

most assuredly not. for that matter, something that heavy in that small of an area would likely require some special construction in the foundation to prevent it from sinking into the ground, moth supposes. but moth is not a structural engineer, so moth cannot say for sure.

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0ops 8 points 7 days ago

One could make a huge lamp bulb with all that tungsten...

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samus12345 10 points 7 days ago path: 0 26212984, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0
Skullgrid 10 points 7 days ago

Goddamnit Nile Red

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AI_toothbrush 7 points 6 days ago

That cube prolly wheighs like 40+ tonnes. At the 150€ per kilo price that i could find that would mean the vube is worth 6 million euros.

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toynbee 3 points 6 days ago

You might enjoy the ongoing Alec Steele series of videos on what's involved in preparing a workspace for a multiton workload in a limited area!

I don't have much experience with the YouTube web interface, but unless I'm wrong, he hasn't made a relevant playlist yet. However, his homepage is https://youtube.com/@AlecSteele

And pretty much every video that is relevant to this topic features the word "dream" in the title.

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AI_toothbrush 2 points 5 days ago

Hah, jokes on you, ive been watching him for years at this point. Yeah the dream power hammer restoration this time has been really cool.

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tanisnikana 6 points 7 days ago

I have exes I need to gift this to.

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rumschlumpel 6 points 7 days ago

Kinda impractical, but very valuable!

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BreadOven 5 points 7 days ago

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Wildmimic 4 points 7 days ago

Need a few more of those to slow time down enough through gravity!

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AgentOrangesicle 4 points 6 days ago

Can't exactly reforge it, so you'd be chopping pieces off of it like a stick of butter.

Or just leaving it somewhere and admiring your giant tungsten cube, which is more likely.

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Ceruleum 3 points 7 days ago

I want one in pink.

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DangerNooble 3 points 7 days ago

If that were mine I would treat it so well. Who's a good giant tungsten cube yea you're a good giant tungsten cube

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einfach_orangensaft 2 points 7 days ago

Cube content good, but i prefer concrete cubes in the woods

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Translucide 1 point 3 days ago

God I wish that was me
altr

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