Comments on: HOWTO re-create the Scrooge McDuck "Gold Coin Swim"

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Swimming in solid hurts. ;)

By: Sam Pourasghar

Sam Pourasghar — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:09:00 +0000

If Scrooge McDuck were in fact the T-1000 I expect he’d be heavy any strong enough to blade-hand swim through the loose metal.

By: ambiguator

ambiguator — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:31:00 +0000

I stopped reading at “Given that 1 ounce of gold is roughly $5.00″

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:56:00 +0000

This.

I poked around and it looks like someone posting and reposting articles they found slightly amusing. It looks like it wants to be a serious site, but has no focus.

By: bagoombah

bagoombah — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:32:00 +0000

Peter Griffin’s analysis of this concept was the most accurate I’ve seen so far, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMyk7MXsseg (Not Safe for Toons)

By: citizen

citizen — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:25:00 +0000

As long as it’s not a Dothraki golden shower…

By: Joel Phillips

Joel Phillips — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:57:00 +0000

… and at what point did he fail out of chemistry class in order not to realise that a cubic inch of gold is going to weigh a lot more than an ounce?

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:25:00 +0000

I found the site and its articles to be very odd. Not sure who the audience is. But it does, actually, seem like a good reflection of the daily finances of typical Americans, sadly enough.

The worst part is when you realize that these apparently are people who feel compelled to write about personal finance, meaning there are huge numbers of people who are much worse than the people on that site with their money. There’s a weird acceptance and even pride in having poor financial habits on there.

By: cservant

cservant — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:46:00 +0000

No offense, but reading the rest (well a good portion) of the site, The Billfold, just makes me even more depress.

Is this a good reflection of the daily fianances of typical Americans?

By: woid

woid — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:40:00 +0000

Scrooge looks upset because he’s just heard he might be only the world’s second-richest duck, edged out by Flintheart Glomgold. It finally comes down to their respective giant balls of twine, which they unroll across the African plains…

Ah, just read the comic. It’s still only 10 cents (as of 9/56).

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:12:00 +0000

Now THIS is the type of investigative journalism I’ve come to expect from our commenters!

By: relawson

relawson — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:27:00 +0000

Right, just try pressing your hand into a jar of pennies. I would not be the first to try such a feat. I’d bet someone else that they could do it, first ;)

By: Leo Cortens

Leo Cortens — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:06:00 +0000

That integral makes me cringe it’s so wrong. Cubing the area? What?

By: Ken Williams

Ken Williams — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I thought it would be physics-based, explaining how [much gold you'd need] to dive actually into it somehow.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:34:00 +0000

You can’t dive into gold. You can only dive onto it and bust your ass.

By: woid

woid — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:09:00 +0000

Documentary proof!

By: woid

woid — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:56:00 +0000

As of Uncle Scrooge comic #15, in September 1956, his fortune totaled one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents.

Accounting for later profits and inflation… Ah, just do the math.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:48:00 +0000

Would you settle for a golden shower? Note: You must click the link, not the image, to get to the correct time stamp. Thanks, Disqus, for forcibly embedding videos and then stripping out the time marker. You're a real pal.

By: aaronmhill

aaronmhill — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:18:00 +0000

Definitely read the comments section.

One person quotes the “Duck universe” article on wikipedia to establish the ACTUAL volume of the money bin.

Another person quotes the specific quantity (some absurd Disney fake-number string) of dollars/coins that Scrooge has.

Multiple commenters correct (and snarkily chastise) the OPs very unprecise math.

By: Max Kingsbury

Max Kingsbury — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:11:00 +0000

Obviously fake math. So fake that at the end: ”
Matt Powers is in his early twenties-ish. _He is also good at making up fake math._”

Math is srs bsnss!

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:08:00 +0000

I can’t say whether or not it’s mathematically precise, but gold isn’t the rarest metal:

http://www.curiousnotions.com/home/metals.asp