Or what?

No I got it, and it has nothing to do with the misinterpretation but rather the "1 in 20" being a "majority". Nice try though, claim it was the intent all along.

No I think you're confusing the decimal for a comma.

So how do you fix reading comprehension? One of the 20% is not one in 20. It's one of the 20 out of 100 people. Sigh.

It would make sense if it was a Sith saying...

Look at the exe file with a hex editor. All you will see is numbers.

171,000 tonnes. Worldwide. Since we started mining gold. I'd say that's pretty rare, especially considering how dense gold is you don't need many m3 to reach that mass. That's only around 9000 cubic meters.

To be fair, I wouldn't mind storing my wealth in diamonds and rubies and silver, either. The problem with the stones is that the price is artificially kept high. The mark-up on jewelry is ridiculous. And of course diamond mining is an effective monopoly. So you pay what DeBeers wants you to pay - which is too much. But short of them dumping loads of diamonds and flooding the market, diamonds could be a fair way to store wealth as well. The problem with diamonds though is you either get a whole diamond or you don't. Gold can be cut up, shaved, powdered, and a precise weight handed over. Silver and aluminum are far too common. Although silver has also been a store of wealth, its value is always less than gold. And platinum is just too rare.

The planet is not moving at all. It's the rest of the universe that is spinning around us.

No, the other materials tend to corrode or react over time. Gold does not. It will be exactly the same in 100 years as it is today, no matter where you put it, unless it's raining aqua regia for some reason but then money is the least of your worries.

It's rare. It doesn't rust. It barely reacts with anything at all. It's highly malleable. It's ductile. It conducts electricity. It has plenty of desirable properties. The fact that it's a rare metal that will never corrode makes it perfect as a store of wealth. You can argue all you want with thousands of years of human history. You're still wrong.

Right. So if you see a gold nugget or a piece of gold jewelry on the ground I expect you not to pick it up because it has no value.

And bits of Hadrian's wall can be found in the stone walls of cottages and farms all over Scotland...

As a doctor I am allowed to do many things that you are not allowed to do. Does that make me into another "class" of citizen? A journalist who studied journalism should certainly have both the rights AND responsibilities that go with his earned degree.

DoJ is not allowed to go on fishing expeditions, which is what this was.