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.
I have a cube of tungsten at work that is 40mm x 40 mm, it is comedically heavy. This thing would be nuts.
I have a cube
That is 40mm x 40mm
Holy shit Tom is rich now! If he can move it though.
How did they put it on the stage?
Spawned it in with a console command.
They built the stage around the cube.
They grew the Earth around the cube.
The Cube has always been there. The Cube is eternal. All hail the Cube.
Assuming that’s a meter cubed it weighs 19 tons, or 65 tons for 1.5m³
I’m seeing $30,000 per ton there (as of 2018) so wouldn’t the cubic meter cost about $645,000?
They misplaced the comma or used a weird system distinct from the Western or Indian one
I unironically want this
Me too. It’s worth over $1 million.
But the guy above said fif… You know what, I’ll give you $1 million.
To be fair, these estimates here are just guessing the actual size and composition of that cube. Still, that’s a lot of tungsten.
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.
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.
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.
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.
https://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.
I’ll make my own cubes! Will a sawsall get through that motherfucker?
Of course! It’s “saws all” not “can’t saw tungsten”!
this would be worth about 15 million dollars
But where and to whom?
It’s about letting go…
Melt it.
Wait…
Eat it!
Bop it
Flick it!
Pull it!
Suck it! (¬‿¬)
Twist it!
Hmmm.
So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.
Best I can do is a copy of Battletoads
About the same as me winning a giant-ass dinette and patio set for my moderate-sized apartment.
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.
Welcome to another exciting episode of CAN! YOU! FENCE THIS?!?!*
Alright contestants, this week your prize is: 600 tons of wood chips! Whoever earns the most money selling your prize will be our lucky winner and move on to round 2.
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.
I’d watch the fuck out of that.
I think I’m going to pitch it to the History channel. Maybe see if I can get Jason Murphy on board.
“Welcome to Can You Fence This, the game show about finding buyers for valuable yet burdensome objects. Ordinary contestants will compete to unload their consignments for the most money without destroying public infrastructure.”
Shoot it in Nevada, lots of establishing shots of the cast standing with their arms folded in very orange light.
Throw it in the water! I want to se what happens!
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.
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.
Good luck retrieving your giant tungsten payday from the murky depths now.
Catmium
Probably Potassium
K
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)
The cube is so heavy, it presses a hole into the floor.
I see why he’s smiling
Why the heck are you giving an llm a math problem?
Lazy
LLMs can’t actually do math…
Well that seemed to be perfect, doesn’t chat gpt outsource its math to Wolfram Alpha or something now?
That I don’t know. But regardless, the LLM can’t do it :P
Turns out it managed to do it right this time, so, maybe!
Wolfram is Latin for tungsten so I’d trust it more than anything else
I just asked it and it says that it can.
Checkmate.
Ask it if it can write instructions on how to multiply those numbers without a calculator
It said “yeah”.
Double checkmate.
Damn yo
I can’t debate that
Yep, read it and weep, haters:
I find it to be very annoying to use for linear algebra, statistics, finance, and differential equations. Mostly because it often makes rounding errors or halucinates a number/process.
They can do it better than I can at 7 am. I just sit there and drool looking at my screen
Yeah pretty sure everything people are using llms to calculate can be calulated easily with wolfram alpha.
Edit: ive checked yes you just type it in and it does it for you, and it says 3million instead of 2.6 and i will trust wolfram not chatgpt
But property is theft, so now you are under arrest
I need tungsten to live!
Just to be a troublemaker, everyone is assuming this a solid cube, but what if it was something like 1/4 inch tungsten plates and hollow in the middle?
What would it weigh? Would it float in water?
Just imagine plackng this in the front yard as an ornament and watching it sink into the ground from its weight.
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.
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.
Aircraft use tungsten ballast plates. I know it requires hardware, but would that have been viable?
Possible but the expense ruined my plans in the end… I did consider collecting broken tungsten end mills and inserts from machine shops and throwing them in molten lead, like croutons in a lead soup.
If I understand it right, you’d get mostly cobalt that way. Carbide tooling isn’t solid tungsten or silicon carbide but carbide powder embedded in cobalt.
