On May 17, 10:56=A0am, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 16 May 2008 12:06:30 -0700 (PDT), ErictheTo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On Apr 16, 2:56=A0pm, Phillip Thorne <petho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Consider the gold vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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> >> 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. =A0How heavy? =A0It contains around
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> >> tons of gold. =A0The three-story bunker is made of steel-reinforced
> >> concrete. =A0The 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. =A0Whether this will involve the
> >incidental destruction of the vault will seriously depend on the
> >overeagerness of the adventurers.
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> Don't be silly. =A0There's a small band of gnomes living in sub-vault
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> 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. =A0We can't disappoint the
> *next* batch of adventurers, after all. =A0Where's the adventure in just
> wandering into an undefended, empty vault?
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Actually, with a high-tech ancient society, self-maintaining and self-
restoring automatic traps are quite plausible, they wouldn't last
_forever_ but they might last a good while, and they might still be
operational even if some previous batch of tomb-robb-er heroic
archaeologists has already removed the goodies.
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