COULD THIS BE THE GOLD?
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Every 100 bars of gold weigh 2,700 lbs. If you're moving fourteen quadrillion dollars of gold you ain't doing it in minivans.
I am a student of hauling heavy loads in passenger vans. Before I even knew what this thread was about I watched the video. The FIRST thing that JUMPED OUT was the suspensions of those vans were ‘flat springed’ … meaning the leaf springs that act as backup to the shocks was damn near maxed out. Then I watched for ‘wobble’ when the vans turned.
I am not supporting the “Gold on board” premise … but I can tell you with 100% certainty every single one of those vans were loaded down with something heavy as fuck … look how deep the tires were inside the rear wheel well. Dude, I was just waiting for a tire to burst or an axle to snap.
Its ppl like you with this level of knowledge and expertise in an area such as this that keeps me coming back to GAW. Greatly appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. THX!
Except for the fact that leaf springs (or coil springs) don’t act as a “backup” to the shock absorbers. The shocks prevent the sprung (and unsprung) weight from oscillating. They work together. There are big rubber buttons called bump stops that limit the suspension travel. Now, if the vans were down on the bump stops, they were indeed heavily loaded. I would be very leery about putting a 3000 lb load in the average grocery getter. Odds are the load would distort the chassis and body of the vehicle, possibly causing it to collapse. Tire loading is another problem. The tires would also be severely distorted. The max load for a passenger vehicle is well under 2000 lbs.
These are Mercedes Metris vans. They dont use springs. They use Airmatic suspension systems. I was using the term ‘leaf’ in the generic context. You are 100% correct in the general sense.
The max cargo capacity for the Metris is 3000lbs. If, they are actually hauling gold (big if) they would likely have made modifications to support the added weight.
Yes…you could see the way they took they turn. Heavy s@&$ loaded inside.
It not to say they took ALl of the gold out by mini van…just enough to make it visible to those in the know…had to tip off the black hats too…
Still waiting to figure out the Israel for last part of things…
The gold they were hauling out was kept in a tunnel which ran to Jerusalem.
It looked like they turned unusually wide to keep body roll down.
As my brother would say, "It was like driving a bag of water".
I was thinking the very same thing.
I don't have any specific knowledge about such things, but as I watched the video, before I read your post, I was thinking, "I wonder if someone could calculate how heavy those vans appear to be." Wild
Thanks for the technical input!
...just wondering if there are tunnels under the Vat, big enough for a semi
Allegedly, there is a tunnel that runs from the Vatican to Jerusalem that is sixty feet wide and forty feet tall. That's where the gold was stored.
and 1400 miles long???
There are 5,000 mile long tunnels under Tibet. I would not be surprised if there are similarly long tunnels under the Atlantic.
I should have read this first. I just made this comment.🤪
Bullshit! Where did the hundreds of cubic miles of spoil go?
Do the math…
I did the math. A 1400 mile tunnel 60x40 feet is 12,670,000 cubic feet. It would take over 11,000 tunnels that size to create a single cubic mile of waste. Spread over a good sized area, it wouldn't be noticeable.
Why do people say "do the math" when they never have, and their answers are so utterly wrong?
Qeq!
Close but a little optimistic. There's about ~$12-13 trillion in gold on the planet
Anyway, even for a few trillion It would take a lot of airplanes. Or so I've read.
I remember reading about a US Navy battle group that was in the vicinity-lot's and lots of displacement capacity availible, they returned to home port in the US.
Q uadrillion eh?
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Can we just do this already?
Tomorrow would be fine. Whatever it takes. Let's go!
If each van had 100 bars, that's $86 million (rounding up to $2K/oz). For every $1B, you need 12 vans. How much gold were they getting from the Vatican?
I've seen stories of thirty four quadrillion dollars in value. That's fifteen zeros!
LOL. 650 of our biggest transport planes couldnt haul 34 quadrillion dollars of gold. That is 34 million trillions. There isnt that much gold in the world.
Ive seen 6 trillion.
There is that much gold in the world.
When the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and the Inca, they spent over 100 years bringing back all the gold. Tens of thousands of ships, laden with gold. The Inca alone were estimated to possess 15,000 cubic meters of gold, with the majority of it covering government buildings, temples, and some of the main roads. The Aztecs had so much gold they stored EXCESS in enormous underground pits that the Spanish tried to loot but realized that they weren't going to be able to get all of it because by the time they started Mexico was beginning to clamor for independence and they had to focus on maintaining stability (which is hard when you are devoting 80% of your navy in the area to looting).
The Mali and Ghana Empires may have had even more gold. Mansa Musa, nearly a legendary figure, was said to be so wealthy he would give bags of gold to every single person he met traveling from Timbuktu to Cairo and back. Via North Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Oran, Marrakech, etc)!
Some medieval authors who showed more knowledge of Sub-Saharan Africa than the norm, indicated that Ghana was a land covered in Gold, and that the Niger River (then called by a different name), had so much gold in it that it shone in the day time like a thousand Suns (that is most likely a historical embellishment, since they also liked to preface such descriptions with "don't go there, you will burn to ashes."
it would take weeks....kek