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mc32 on July 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight s...

Some elements are kind of well distributed but not others: gold for example, or minerals or hydrocarbons, or even wind.

mr_toad on July 7, 2022 | [–]

There’s a huge amount of gold (and other stuff) dissolved in seawater. Something like 20 million tons of it. The trouble is that it’s too evenly distributed.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gold-ocean-sea-hoax-sc...

joebob42 on July 8, 2022 | [–]

> elements

> Wind

I know you know and this is just stupid pedantry but it made me cackle

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