27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
6:46 p.m.
> There is gold at Fort Knox? [...]
Or do you mean the gold ingots cast around a tungsten
core? Hey, if
you never have to use it for anything, other than to show that you've
got *lots* of gold, what's the diff if everyone believes you?
It's interesting that no one tries to fake
rhodium, as it has
commercial use and would be quickly found out.
So does gold. You may note that nobody speaks of fake gold in cases
where there's a commercial use for it (gold-plating high-reliability
contacts, for example), only for cases - like Fort Knox - where there
is little-to-no operational difference between real gold and something
that looks like gold but isn't.
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