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  • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

    @Horace said in Dudes posting their Ws:

    I brought a 100 ounce silver bar to work to show it to people because I thought it was cool, but I sensed people thought I was trying to show off. I work with a bunch of poor trash PhD scientists and engineers, so I guess they probably hadn't seen 2000 dollars all in the same place ever before. So I stopped showing it to people. You need to be an upper class high status type like me in order to appreciate the beauty separately from the monetary value.

    Maybe you can move on to Platinum

    The warehouse retailer (COST) has started selling one-ounce platinum bars priced at $1,089.99 apiece, which is slightly higher than the metal's current value of roughly $1,000 per ounce on the commodity market. Costco's foray into selling gold bars started last year and has proven a huge success, with the company reporting that sales reached $100 million in 2023.

    https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20241003254/are-the-costco-platinum-bars-worth-buying-heres-what-finance-pros-have-to-say

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    @taiwan_girl said in Dudes posting their Ws:

    @Horace said in Dudes posting their Ws:

    I brought a 100 ounce silver bar to work to show it to people because I thought it was cool, but I sensed people thought I was trying to show off. I work with a bunch of poor trash PhD scientists and engineers, so I guess they probably hadn't seen 2000 dollars all in the same place ever before. So I stopped showing it to people. You need to be an upper class high status type like me in order to appreciate the beauty separately from the monetary value.

    Maybe you can move on to Platinum

    The warehouse retailer (COST) has started selling one-ounce platinum bars priced at $1,089.99 apiece, which is slightly higher than the metal's current value of roughly $1,000 per ounce on the commodity market. Costco's foray into selling gold bars started last year and has proven a huge success, with the company reporting that sales reached $100 million in 2023.

    https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20241003254/are-the-costco-platinum-bars-worth-buying-heres-what-finance-pros-have-to-say

    That silver bar is $3150 now. Doubled since I bought it. I'm thinking of cashing them in for a nice grand piano.

    Education is extremely important.

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      jon-nyc
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      That’s probably 800lbs or so.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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        Horace
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        I guess there's a chance he grew up on a farm and has done that before. Lots of technique involved in that.

        Education is extremely important.

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          George K
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          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            Mik
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            A big W

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              That’s cool

              Only non-witches get due process.

              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                That room would pass no DEI standards today.

                The Brad

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                • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                  That room would pass no DEI standards today.

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                  @LuFins-Dad said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                  That room would pass no DEI standards today.

                  Which is, in part, why they figured it out and not NASA.

                  Please love yourself.

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                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                    @LuFins-Dad said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                    That room would pass no DEI standards today.

                    Which is, in part, why they figured it out and not NASA.

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                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                    Which is, in part, why they figured it out and not NASA.

                    NASA's approach has been make it perfect the first time.

                    SpaceX's approach is make it fast, cheap and learn from mistakes.

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      Last week I was able to visit Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

                      If you ever go, you pay like $75 to get in (includes a bus from the visitor center to the Saturn V building), but for $25 you can upgrade the bus to a 1.5 hour "explore tour" of the property.

                      LISTEN TO ME, PAYING THE EXTRA $25 IS THE BIGGEST NO BRAINER ON THE PLANET IF YOU EVER GO THERE.

                      It was AMAZING, the tour guide on the bus was fantastic, lots of trivia, a few jokes, and amazing facts. The bus lets you out 3 times to take pictures, and you see so much. You get awfully close to the launch pads for the Apollo and Shuttle launches, and now Artemis, as well as a new Space X "tower and chopsticks". You get to see the Vehicle Assembly Building, the crawler, the actual places where the Apollo astronauts got ready, the countdown clock, the stands, the CBS building where Cronkite watched Apollo launches from, you drive the very same road the Apollo (and other) astronauts took back in 1969...

                      Anyway...............what struck me, as I saw a SpaceX falcon rocket being refurbished after a launch, was how incredibly routine this has become. The day after we left, there were 2 SpaceX launches, where the rocket returned (one to a drone ship, one to the launch pad).

                      I didn't get to see a launch unfortunately (I was hoping, but weather scrubbed one launch) but did get to hear/feel the rumble from one later that week from 10+ miles away. It was great.

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                        Can you tell I enjoyed the visit?

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                            The last time I was there was when my daughter went to Space Camp, maybe 20 years ago. It took me about 1 second to answer when she asked if she could go.

                            Fun place

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                              Nice. I was there in April and right after we arrived there was a Falcon launch. Total surprise for me.

                              I did the bus tour in 2018 with the boy. Awesome indeed.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                blondie
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                                Great photos! I wish I’d visited there.

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                                  Easily in the Top 5 coolest fucking things my dad ever did:

                                  He was down in Florida, walking around, viewing the Rocket Garden at Cape Canaveral. It wasn't too crowded, just some tourists, but he saw this one guy looking up at the Mercury rocket. Just by himself, staring at it.

                                  He walked up behind him and said, "that was your ride, wasn't it."

                                  Dude was Alan B.

                                  Afterwards they got a photo together that my dad still has on his bookshelf.

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                    I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                                    When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

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                                    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                      Easily in the Top 5 coolest fucking things my dad ever did:

                                      He was down in Florida, walking around, viewing the Rocket Garden at Cape Canaveral. It wasn't too crowded, just some tourists, but he saw this one guy looking up at the Mercury rocket. Just by himself, staring at it.

                                      He walked up behind him and said, "that was your ride, wasn't it."

                                      Dude was Alan B.

                                      Afterwards they got a photo together that my dad still has on his bookshelf.

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                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                      Easily in the Top 5 coolest fucking things my dad ever did:

                                      He was down in Florida, walking around, viewing the Rocket Garden at Cape Canaveral. It wasn't too crowded, just some tourists, but he saw this one guy looking up at the Mercury rocket. Just by himself, staring at it.

                                      He walked up behind him and said, "that was your ride, wasn't it."

                                      Dude was Alan B.

                                      Afterwards they got a photo together that my dad still has on his bookshelf.

                                      That is great.

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                                      • CopperC Copper

                                        I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                                        When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

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                                        @Copper said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                        I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                                        When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

                                        Didja beat her?

                                        Only non-witches get due process.

                                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                          @Copper said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                          I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                                          When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

                                          Didja beat her?

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                                          @jon-nyc said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                          Didja beat her?

                                          This was way before Trump, so at the time that was not allowed.

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