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Moridin920 posted:Israel is demanding any gold be turned over to them Source? quote:"Our geo-radar images show that there is a train with vehicles on it," Focken said, suggesting that the vehicles could be tanks. If they find some mint condition German tanks, they're almost worth their weight in gold to private collectors. Haier posted:This sounds fun, but hopefully those decades of soggy tunnel humidity didn't warp all the cool stuff. The Nazis were pretty good at hiding their poo poo in locations where it would be protected from the elements. Salt mines were really popular, but if they picked a rise in the tunnel, and it's sealed up well, it could possibly have really good characteristics for preserving stuff. I'm always amazed how well preserved stuff is in bogs. Don't know how many tanks they've pulled from swamps in Russia and Poland that all they needed to do was hose them out, change the fluids, and they started up.
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dookifex_maximus posted:actually now i'm wondering what would happen if you introduced a bunch of oxygen to a bog, like get a series of tubes with punctures along the side and an air compressor and really aerate that goop up Something that smells like a Magic the Gathering Convention?
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Moridin920 posted:just a joke but it seems plausible doesn't it? I'm picturing the last scene from Schindler's list where Oscar is lamenting how he could have saved more people, but in reverse. "A bar of gold, I could have bulldozed 300 Palestinian homes with a bar of gold. . . a missing Monet! I could have JDAM'ed a school in the Golan Heights with the money from that painting!"
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Aug 15, 2016 23:44
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:Came here to make this joke Guessing that they didn't have the capital themselves to get this search and excavation off the ground and had to get other parties involved who wanted a little publicity. Publicity can also get you even more backers in short order, and I would not be surprised if there were other teams out there closing in on the area and this crew decided to go for broke and get as much attention and money as possible to get digging before someone else gets there first.
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Aug 16, 2016 02:24
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spud posted:Pretty loving convenient to find an entire train full of gold. "Give me back my loving gold assholes!" 
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The Biscuit posted:I bet they would prefer to find tanx. It would be more likely for no one to gaf about them and they would get to keep/sell them. I guess it depends if the gold/tanks are on private property or government land, and what types of salvage rights people have. Some places have limits on found treasure, so anything over "X" amount of dollars (or whatever the local currency is) goes to the government. A tank like a Panther/Tiger or something even more rare like one of those odd Flak Guns would be going in the tens of millions of dollars, while something like a Panzer IV might only go for a few million. Anything more than a bar or two of gold would probably revert to the government, and the finders would probably get their expenses covered and either a percentage of the find or a capped lump sum. I don't understand Polish and don't know what their laws are, but I'm pretty sure previously scavenged WWII tank have required large fees to the government before they could be sold to private collectors.
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Gold is cool from a monetary point of view, but sort of boring. I'm hoping it's something really outlandish or unique. - Pristine tanks - V-2 rockets - A massive amount of paperwork on secret Nazi projects - Hitler's mobile S&M dungeon - A few cattle cars of priceless art and artefacts - The amber room - Goering's model train set (because it's on an actual train) - 20,000 Rogue One blue ray disks. 
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