British designed £ 3 billion yacht for Malaysian businessman?
Jul 26th 2011, 9:39 pm
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British designed £ 3 billion yacht for Malaysian businessman?
Has the DailyMail ,Mirror and Sun been had, is this story legit? A £ 3 billion yacht sounds rather far fetched for any country let alone Malaysia which while no doubt has its share of supr wealthy, still not on the same level as Saudi.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...sells-3bn.html
Talk about splashing out – an anonymous Malaysian businessman has spent £3billion on a yacht made from solid gold and platinum.
The History Supreme was assembled using a staggering 100,000kg of the precious metals.
The History Supreme was assembled using a staggering 100,000kg of the precious metals.
The hefty price tag is also the result of an amazingly luxurious master bedroom. It’s adorned with platinum and has a wall feature made from meteoric stone and a genuine T-Rex dinosaur bone.
Jul 27th 2011, 6:03 am
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I’ve always wanted to be a pirate, now I’ll know where to start 
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Jul 27th 2011, 7:10 am
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Heres a 1.5 million dollar Russian SUV with whale penis leather interior. It should fit quite well in Dubai.
http://jalopnik.com/5380680/15m-russ...-penis-leather
http://jalopnik.com/5380680/15m-russ...-penis-leather
Jul 27th 2011, 7:35 am
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base of the vessel – which is wrapped in solid gold
not that it matters much as if you have 3bn you can buy some sharks with frikkin laser beams to protect it
Jul 27th 2011, 8:02 am
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oh, and its fake anyway
Jul 27th 2011, 8:36 am
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Obviously bollocks. Its not April 1st and I've missed it, is it?
Average current price of 1kg of gold and platinum is 33,500, multiply that by 100,000 and you get just over GBP 3 billion. You can't build a yacht out of gold and platinum, you can only furnish it with them, so you've got to add the price of the yacht. And "a yacht made out of solid gold"? That'll float, then.
Average current price of 1kg of gold and platinum is 33,500, multiply that by 100,000 and you get just over GBP 3 billion. You can't build a yacht out of gold and platinum, you can only furnish it with them, so you've got to add the price of the yacht. And "a yacht made out of solid gold"? That'll float, then.
Jul 27th 2011, 8:42 am
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Jul 27th 2011, 9:34 am
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Using cement for boat hulls is not a common yacht building technique - but it has been used very sucessfully in the past - Ferrocement.
http://www.ferrocement.org/
and a little cheaper than gold at 1,500 US$ and ounce!
http://www.ferrocement.org/
and a little cheaper than gold at 1,500 US$ and ounce!
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It was. My point was about "solid" gold, but I guess there's no essential difference between a hull made from "solid" steel or "solid" gold if "solid" is taken to mean "not having substantial voids" rather than the hull not having a void in the middle.
Steel balloon: I suppose if the steel is thin enough and the ballon big enough it'd work.
I didn't fail physics, but I was pretty crap at it.
Steel balloon: I suppose if the steel is thin enough and the ballon big enough it'd work.
I didn't fail physics, but I was pretty crap at it.
Jul 27th 2011, 9:47 am
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