A gold official-size Basketball would only be a hair over 300lbs
That's what I figured, just for funsies, but didn't feel like checking my arithmetic. I got 313 lb for a regulation NBA basketball.
Don't know the approximate dimensions of the "block" of gold he hefted around, not having seen that particular episode. (ETA: posted before I saw the photos above.)
However, it was like figuring the weight of Thor's Hammer in cartoon depictions of Thor.... i.e., kind of pointless.
I liked the show, but I always had trouble with how they managed to plan that stuff out so exquisitely in (usually) less than 24 hrs. That always challenged my "suspension of reality" neuron-set.
I mean, like all of a sudden Greg Morris is inside the antagonist's building tinkering with wires and chips and valves and pipes and whatnot... how'd he get in there?
On thing I saw which I did like (if it was from MI) was them freezing some piping to stop some kind of flow or other by spraying either CO2 or LN2 on the pipes from outside the fence. I thought that was cool. <micropun
The show was pretty enjoyable except for the occasional extreme stretching of my imagination muscles. Ow.
Well, they didn't call it Mission "Impossible" for nothin', doncha know.
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Terry. 230RN
