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• jacquesm 11y ago
  Post apocalypse I think we're going to be down to mail-order rather than that we'll use the internet, unless those carrier pigeons will be used to implement tcp/ip as well. I'm half tempted to figure out what the amount of gold is that a carrier pigeon could carry. Storing $10M in cash would guard against a short duration (3 months?) collapse of the banking system, storing it in gold is to guard against something of a completely different order.
• jordanb 11y ago
  In the event of the apocalypse I think cheap cookware will be more valuable than gold. Consider all the things you can do with a pot post-apocalypse: * Cook in it, clearly * Use it as a shovel * Sit on it * Drink out of it, or eat out of it * Use it as a toilet (might want two pots) * Use it to collect fruits and berries you gather * Use it to collect rainwater * Conk people/animals/zombies over the head with it * Sharpen the lip by rubbing it against some rocks and use it as a knife * Use it as a helmet during the radioactive hailstorms That's just what I've come up with in a few minutes of thinking. Other than conking you can't do any of the above with a gold brick.
• smcl 11y ago
  Perhaps the ordering procedure can be performed by plain old TCP/IP-over-pigeon: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt