Olympic Gold Made of Recycled Circuits
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I think you missed the point I was making.Darth Pope said:
Steel is an Alloy.
An Alloy is made up of several different metals.
You can not have a 'Pure Alloy'.
Much like, you can't have a 'pure-bread mutt'.
Pure implies, Pure Iron, Pure Copper, Pure Zinc.
Theres a reason we have varying grades of steel, because it IS an alloy, so there really is no such thing as a 'pure' steel.
Course, this arguement is entirely semantics on the defintion of 'pure'.
Yeah probably, why they hell did they give the 2012 to us? We Brits have a reputation for being terraible planners for a good reason you know.Pyromaniac1337 said:
And afterwards we are going to have billion dollar sports stadiums that will never be used ever again, for anything, ever.
Makes you wonder...
How much porn could have been on those old drives and circuits. A medal with porn on it, that might actually be worth working out.
How much porn could have been on those old drives and circuits. A medal with porn on it, that might actually be worth working out.
It's happening exactly as Lord of the Rings predicted!Marq said:
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Three Medals for the Americans under our kingdom,
Seven for the Europeans in their halls of polished glass,
Nine for the continent of Asia, doomed to grind (in MMOs, that is!),
One for the dominion of Canada on its dark throne.
In the Land of Canada where the Shadows lie.
One Medal to rule them all, One Medal to find them,
One Medal to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Canada where the Shadows lie.
...We are so frakked.
I find that very interesting since I work in a scrap yard and there is a very slight chance that I may have seen the gold before.
Here's what happens: My family's company (the place where I work) buys used cars. The used cars are taken to a massive car shredder (think of a wood chipper, just a hell of a lot bigger) in San Diego. The cars are chopped up and taken to the yard in Santa Fe Springs (not Santa Fe, Santa Fe Springs is in Southern California) and they sort out the different medals, plastics and everything else in the piles and then treated. The piles of scrap are then shipper to China. After that... ummm... I don't know... God only knows what the fuck the Chinese are doing with all that scrap. Probably making electronics out of them.
A lot of times, when I look at a wire or something else with medal in it, I can't help but to wonder if I have seen the medal before.
My job isn't to exiting... But at least I have all the materials needed to make an Iron Man suit!
Here's what happens: My family's company (the place where I work) buys used cars. The used cars are taken to a massive car shredder (think of a wood chipper, just a hell of a lot bigger) in San Diego. The cars are chopped up and taken to the yard in Santa Fe Springs (not Santa Fe, Santa Fe Springs is in Southern California) and they sort out the different medals, plastics and everything else in the piles and then treated. The piles of scrap are then shipper to China. After that... ummm... I don't know... God only knows what the fuck the Chinese are doing with all that scrap. Probably making electronics out of them.
A lot of times, when I look at a wire or something else with medal in it, I can't help but to wonder if I have seen the medal before.
My job isn't to exiting... But at least I have all the materials needed to make an Iron Man suit!
In NY, we got two or three useless things created way back in the early World's Fair. In the times since, we have not been able to re-use the darn things and it just sits there rusting away. Every few years the city sends teams to brace it from falling.... Just imagine the same fate happening to your beloved cities. And the real estate crews moaning or even bankrupting b/c of that albatross.johnman said:
Hey! these medals will be unique to each other? Would that drive up their prices depending on who owned them?
Oh, great, then the athletes who are under the power of the Canadians willMarq said:
Well, you already typed if for me.Beefcakes said:
Oh they have that event, it is the review process for becoming an IOC chairperson.MaxTheReaper said:
Considering their bodies are recycled junk, they may just take it personal. Seriously, has any athlete that won a medal in the past 5 summer games NOT used illegal enhancers?Leonite7 said:
>>Okay, maybe Michael Phelps, but I have my doubts he is even human. Someone might already have an important clue:
Deleric said:
Dammit! Stop revealing our plans, or else I will send my Cyborg Polar Bears after you!Marq said:
Hey, at least you have it! Torontoinians have been trying for the Olympics since Montreal, (1976) and we got screwed over in 2008, when we lost it to Beijing. Oh well, there is always 2018...johnman said:
It's a nice sentiment, but it's not really going to do very much with just them doing that little bit, is it?
Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I heard that in Japan, because of the rate of turn over of cellphones (one generally lasts 3 months), the have factories there that are just to extract the micrograms of gold in each phone. Partly to reduce waste, and partly because if most people in the major cities of Japan are getting a new phone every three months, the amount of gold adds up fast.Beefcakes said: