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Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts (www.popsci.com)
submitted 7 months ago by oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to c/weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
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Go to all that work and then get found out by using shitty spray paint.

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[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Isn't gold also heavy?

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Is iron not heavy?

[-] runeko@programming.dev 15 points 7 months ago

Gold is 2.45 times heavier than iron by volume. https://www.theworldmaterial.com/density-of-metals/

[-] GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

I mean, recently someone found the mother of all software vulnerability attacks because their login took half a second longer than it should. Steel being 2.5x heavier than usual sounds like an easy spot compared to that.

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