Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Why Do People Want Gold Anyway?


I am so overwhelmed by the size of this shovel that I can't lift my arms up to cheer!

Well, gold looks pretty, like for jewelry and stuff. Its also a really good conductor or heat insulator for, like, computers chips and UFOs and stuff. But the real reason why gold is so valuable is because people really have a lot of fun getting it out of the ground. The Superpit, an open cut mining operation, for example, is a schoolboy's dream come true. First you get to blow up HUGE swatches of rocks. Then you get to load the rocks into HUGE trucks with even HUGER loaders. This results in a HUUUUUGE pit in the earth which I think is really just the way some miner's compensate for something else...
No camera tricks or photoshop.
Same trucks as above are located in the upper right corner and center 2/5 of the way down.

1 comment:

  1. Amazing shovel. Looks like one of those super movers featured on the History Channel series. Nice work. Keep it up. I came across your blog while "blog surfing" using the Next Blog button feature on the Nav Bar at the top of my blogger.com site. I frequently just check out the blogs of others out of curiosity. It's amazing all of the different ways in which people express themselves.

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