On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Philip Pemberton wrote:
  and commercial uses) though the only use I could come
up with for gold
 was the plating on edge connectors... 
or anything else that needs to be inert
  could think of for that. Didn't manage to think of
a single commercial
 or industrial use for silver at all... 
remember photographic film?
  Then my thoughts moved towards "so what's the
point of the universe?". 
must have been a helluva bus ride!