The Holy Prepuce if you had absolute proof that it was the genuine article.
At the current rate of production it’ll be millions of years to get a single gram.
Schmucks, they probably haven’t tried reversing the polarity of the dilithium crystals.
I’ve had trouble (Googleing casually) finding limits set out in “radiation allowed to own/have at your disposal/cackle maniacally over”; rather, I’ve found out in “radiation allowed people can be exposed to from radioactive materials you are responsible for.” An index to on-line guides to limits to those situations in different industries and applications (more than I had thought) is here: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/rpp/rms/agreedown/SpecificLicense.pdf
About specific stuff–that is, if you don’t want to do the math from the radiation level and work backwards, for starters, I found Appendix A, (Connecticut), for differing materials in 10 to 10,000 micorCuries permissible.http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/regulations/19/19-24-1through14.pdf
For Uranium ore (don’t know about the pure stuff), SD came to the rescue. For no paperwork, Down Under you can bathe in the stuff, as far as the US government is concerned:
NRC 40:13:
40.13 Unimportant quantities of source material.
(a) Any person is exempt from the regulations in this part and from the requirements for a license set forth in section 62 of the Act to the extent that such person receives, possesses, uses, transfers or delivers source material in any chemical mixture, compound, solution, or alloy in which the source material is by weight less than one-twentieth of 1 percent (0.05 percent) of the mixture, compound, solution or alloy. The exemption contained in this paragraph does not apply to Australian-obligated source material, nor does it include byproduct materials as defined in this part.
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http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part040/part040-0013.html
Uncited, but sourced from **If put this uranium ore down my underpants what would happen?
** If I put this uranium ore down my underpants what would happen? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board
RivkahChaya, I doubt that any Roman coins would make it onto the list-- There are just too many of them.
Just came to me. The codes in the presidential football.
OK, I know this is arguably software, but having stolen them, I choose to hide them in a shoebox under my bed. How much am I bid?
Yeah, the critical mass of Californium is less than plutonium as well, so if you filled a shoebox full, it would immediately explode.
Not a penny. Once they realize they’ve been stolen, they’ll be changed. They probably change them every week or two anyway, just to be on the safe side.
I feel like boffking’s rules or spirit thereof rule out things like rare isotopes or antimatter. You actually have to make the stuff, at a cost that (by definition of their cost) cancels their on-paper worth. For Cf-252, for instance, I’m not sure the world’s GDP could even produce a shoebox full within the time it takes for it to decay away.
I have never bought bitcoins but could that come into play here somehow? Although it is digital, it is also fungible.
I found this part of the xkcd explanation strikingly weird. You could fit enough SD cards in a shoebox to hold 1.5 billion songs. But there aren’t 1.5 billion songs for sale. There’s not anywhere near that many songs that are actually commercially valuable. Even if a person wanted to own every song you could possibly pay for, the number available for sale is maybe 30 million, and will not reach 1.5 billion in our lifetimes.
Kindle books would probably get you to a higher number because, as you point out, they’re pricier, but from what I can find there are also fewer books for sale than there are songs.