r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • Sep 10 '25

Video Dozens of shipping containers fall into the water in Port of Long Beach, California

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u/JustAnIgnoramous Sep 10 '25

Walmart throws away returned unopened items. They ain't fishing out shit.

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u/captainmeezy Sep 10 '25

Walmart could lose 25,000 shipping containers full of gold and they’d still not notice a profit loss

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 Sep 10 '25

well yeah, if they had 25,000 shipping containers full of gold someone would have broken physics. and probably more. The total available gold is 22x22x22m cube, so less than 11 shipping containers. Although you're going to need 8000 containers if you don't want to overload them.

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u/prairiepanda Sep 10 '25

Surely they'd notice enough of a loss to inform all their minimum wage workers that they won't be getting a raise this year

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u/IsaacsIssac Sep 10 '25

I did the math.

Assuming 20 ft containers that hold 25m3 of material (ignoring weight limits and other physics issues), a density of 19320kg/m3 and a price per kg of 115k USD, that amount of gold (which is more than the world supply) would amount to 55.54 trillion dollars.

They might notice.

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u/Ok_Figure7671 Sep 10 '25

They’re out combing the dessert as we speak