On Fri, 16 May 2008 12:06:30 -0700 (PDT), ErictheTolle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On Apr 16, 2:56 pm, Phillip Thorne <petho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Consider the gold vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
>>
>> It's 80 feet below street level (but also 50 feet below sea level,
>> which may mean it's vulnerable to flooding), and rests on Manhattan's
>> bedrock because it's so heavy. How heavy? It contains around 8000
>> tons of gold. The three-story bunker is made of steel-reinforced
>> concrete. The entrance is a 90-ton steel cylinder (airtight and
>> watertight when closed) set in a 140-ton steel and concrete frame.
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>> Thoughts?
>I'm pretty sure that in a few thousand years, a party of adventurers
>would completly remove all the gold, after disposing of whatever nasty
>critters are sitting around on it. Whether this will involve the
>incidental destruction of the vault will seriously depend on the
>overeagerness of the adventurers.
Don't be silly. There's a small band of gnomes living in sub-vault 15A
whose job is to come out every night and reset all the spring-loaded
dart traps, recover the bottomless pit, and put that giant spherical
boulder up on its perch where it belongs. We can't disappoint the
*next* batch of adventurers, after all. Where's the adventure in just
wandering into an undefended, empty vault?
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