First you start with lead blocks!

I read a little while ago in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" that the most likely event (theoretically) that could've created the element, gold as we know it. Is the direct collision ograterwo neutron stars. Apparantly that's the only thing that could generate the required heat.

Since I read that, I find gold much more interesting. I mean, we can create diamonds in a lab now but we might never, ever, ever find a way to create gold.

(incidently, this is a great way to make your wife think that she'd rather have gold than diamonds.)

*dupeof=http://www.videograter.com/video/The-Process-of-Making-Gold

Invocations (dupeof=http://www.videograter.com/video/the-process-of-making-gold) cannot be called by MrLips because MrLips is not privileged - sorry.

They're mining 6ppm ore and probably creating thousands of grams of pollution for every gram of gold they produce... This, and all other sources of pollution, should be taxed heavily.

There goes my dreams of falling down a hole and finding rich deposits of pure gold.

the title needs an apostraphe

It's not a dupe. The other one has some of the same footage with a different narrator, and a more annoying overlay graphic.

That's because this post is the from the American "How It's Made", while blankfist's is from the European "How It's Made"

This clip is actually from the original Canadian version of the show. It's my understanding that the primary difference with other localizations is that different narrators are used.

this lady's voice is extremely irritating to me.
what the hell is gould?
i suppose it could be the past tense of "goul"
a synonym of goul is spirit
past tense of spirit would be spirited
spirited synonym is lively

How it's Made: Lively.

@Ryjkyj
We can actually use particle accelerators or nuclear reactors to create it, it's just not worth it given the required energy

*canada

Adding video to channels (Canada) - requested by syncron.

"That's gold, Jerry! GOLD!"

one gold bar = $370,828 at current prices.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
I read a little while ago in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" that the most likely event (theoretically) that could've created the element, gold as we know it. Is the direct collision ograterwo neutron stars. Apparantly that's the only thing that could generate the required heat.

Actually, and incredibly, nearly all elements formed inside gigantic stars billions of years ago. The sun, whose massive internal pressure fuses 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium every single second(the remaining 5 million tons are released as pure energy) isnt powerful enough to generate any other elements, they all formed in absolute massive explosions and collisions in the early universe.

When Carl Sagan said that we are all made of star-stuff, he wasn't being metaphorical, he was literally right.

And this is how gold is mined in Congo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsJCHW1lowk