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wait how has noone thought of this?
Yeah I think there were some folks who thought about splitting the atom right? I forget who.
Anyway, now I am become wealth, buyer of worlds.
What do you mean "no one". There is a wikihow guide on this: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Gold-from-Mercury
Seems easy enough. Off to the nuclear reactor store to get started.
Aw man, all we have near us is IKEA.
Just buy your Nuclear Reactor from IKEA: Stråhlå
Could always build yourself a fusor for a weak neutron source. Lots of guides for that on YouTube.
Step two is fiddly
This was the idea by alchemy. They thought you could change one element into another. Lead to gold and so forth, but not so easy in medieval Europe
Yeah they didn't have tweezers back then
Don't be daft, of course they have tweezers back then.
They don't have plastic yet.
But eletricity didnt exist at the time, so no risk of being electrocuted.
you can make gold from platinum! however this is a net loss as platinum costs more
You can make gold from hydrogen too! Just gotta put enough of it into one place so it forms a large star, then wait for it to go supernova.
Yeah but it would cost more and take an exorbitant amount of time (like billions of years) to produce anything of value, let alone profit.
Step 2 is expensive :( tweezers ain't cheap!
Zircon-encrusted
Where am I gonna get a pygmy pony at this hour?
They have they all died tho cos it makes hydrogen gas and the die and suffocate please like to spread awareness
just hold your breath ???