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Arrive back twenty to two hundred years later to print money via gold

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ithekro said:

Arrive back twenty to two hundred years later to print money via gold

I counted the marks on the wall and I think you mean "Arrive back 320 million years later."

Best case scenario is a Twilight Zone ending.

You'd have to time it correctly though. Go too far out and humanity might have already developed the ability to efficiently mine asteroids, essentially rendering all gold and other rare metals on earth worthless.

DarkSlushie said:

You'd have to time it correctly though. Go too far out and humanity might have already developed the ability to efficiently mine asteroids, essentially rendering all gold and other rare metals on earth worthless.

Unless traditional gold jewelry of the ancient times somehow remains popular in the far future.
And it probably will, given humans have always had an unhealthy obsession with this soft yellow metal.

DarkSlushie said:

You'd have to time it correctly though. Go too far out and humanity might have already developed the ability to efficiently mine asteroids, essentially rendering all gold and other rare metals on earth worthless.

We're *this* close to using particle accelerators to manufacture gold practical. We can make synthetic gold, but it costs too much energy and infrastructure.

or we find an even rarer earth like liquid latinum in-cased in worthless gold

Steak said:

We're *this* close to using particle accelerators to manufacture gold practical. We can make synthetic gold, but it costs too much energy and infrastructure.

just call up Gelt, he should be vacationing in Spain.