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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just imagine placing this in the front yard as an ornament and watching it sink into the ground from its weight.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I need tungsten to live!

[-] Squeezer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I have a cube of tungsten at work that is 40mm x 40 mm, it is comedically heavy. This thing would be nuts.

[-] AugustWest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I have a cube

That is 40mm x 40mm

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

God, I want to drop this thing from orbit on a populated city so much.

Edit: Just as a prank tho.

[-] skibidi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Dropping anything in orbit just means it is still in orbit.

You'd need a lot of fuel to deorbit that cube on a steep trajectory.

[-] vinyl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't it be easy to account for the forwards momentum and just lead on the shot?

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I'd want to put this in front of the house. No one would steel it ever. lol

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Of course not. It's tungsten. Not steel.

[-] Sestren@lemmy.world 133 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Hmmm.

So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

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[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 52 points 2 days ago

2/10 Prize 8/10 Prize if delivery is included

I can put it in the front yard, spray paint it gold, and start a neighborhood cult around The Cube.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

You ain't putting it anywhere. It's getting delivered and staying where they put it.

A single 5 foot cube of tungsten would weigh about as much as an above average sized single family home.

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 2 days ago

How does one join the cult for The Cube?

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 9 points 2 days ago

One must simply gaze upon the glory of The Cube. The Cube will invite you in, keep you warm, keep you safe. The Cube welcomes all. The Cube just wants to share.

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[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That cube would be in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars of tungsten

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[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This could possibly be the worst possible prize. Raw tungsten isn’t actually that expensive. What’s expensive is working with it as it melts 3,410c (6,170f) isn’t very malleable and is heavy like really really heavy to move this block you will probably need larger equipment than standard industrial moving equipment, bigger trucks and loaders also you’ll need to get the city's permission to haul it on the roads , that alone is probably going to cost more than the cube is worth you will then have to pay a monthly storage fee until someone wants to buy it. Shouldn’t be that long right? It’s a valuable metal… well good luck finding a company that works with tungsten outside of china, and you absolutely can not ship it. But let’s assume you find someone who wants it(at a considerable discount) well now you have to higher the specialized movers again.

EDIT:

Actually I just did the math and plugged in all the known values I could find and assuming you could sell it within the first year you could probably make $700,000, so it would still be well worth it. But a lot of trouble.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I wonder if there's a foundry in the world with a crucible that can hold, melt, and pour that much tungsten? To make a 5 foot solid cube.

Then imagine trying to machine the damn thing square.

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[-] merari42@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

NCD would probably be delighted to have something that can be turned into multiple rods from god

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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 days ago

If I had one of those in my living room, my house would collapse.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago
[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 2 days ago

Holy shit Tom is rich now! If he can move it though.

[-] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

How did they put it on the stage?

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 35 points 2 days ago

They built the stage around the cube.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.

That’s an impressively sturdy floor.

Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.

The block weighs 54.7542 tons.

So this is indeed a decent prize at $18,616 USD.

All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.

Edit: corrected to a less whelming but still difficult to transport prize thanks to chiliedogg.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

My immediate response was to do the same calc. But using SI units, because I don't live in Myanmar or the USA.

I figure that it's a cube, and judging by the size of the lucky winner, I would guess that the sides are 1.5m. 3.375m^3 at 19.254 g/cm^3 is roughly 65 tons. According to https://www.metal.com/Tungsten/202212260004 tungsten bars are trading for 49USD/kg. IDK where you got 340 USD/ton, but we seem to differ.

65 tons at 49 USD/kg is 3'185'000 USD.

I'd say that a solid homogeneous of tungsten should probably fetch a fair bit more than my price. Casting a cube like that is not going to be easy. Tungsten is rather reactive in the molten form, and has to be kept from air. Just alone keeping 65 tons of molten tungsten under a protective layer of inergen gas is going to be challenging.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No idea why the difference in price. I checked again and it still shows $340/ton on a UK site, another shows $335/ton, some higher for powders or carbide, some way lower for scrap.

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[-] dan@upvote.au 9 points 2 days ago

I like how there's so many comments about the value of the cube, and no two comments have the same value.

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[-] donuts@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

I unironically want this

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Moah 13 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a Peter Molyneux game. "And if you click on the cube, you might win another cube"

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Assuming that's a meter cubed it weighs 19 tons, or 65 tons for 1.5m³

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Please deliver this to my moon base

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