Herb & Ivy 4: Unimpressed

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A comic strip about a normal day in the lives of Herb & Ivy.

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Herbert Glarner

Unimpressed

Ivy: Interesting! gold.org says, that all gold ever mined amounts to 161,000 tonnes. – Herb (typing): Ah.
Here's the External pagepage on www.gold.org referred to. 		      Ivy waits for a reaction. Herb is still typing. – Comment: Until now it was just small-talk. It could have remained so, but no, she had to ask, of course...
 
Ivy: Impressing, don't you think? – Herb (stopped typing): Hmm. Let's see...     Herb (using PC): Having a density of 19.3 kg/l, all that gold fits into a container holding 8,341,969 liters.
 
Herb: If one of these liters is brought into cube form, the edge length of such a cube is 0.1 meters.     Herb (using PC): And if all these 8,341,969 mini-cubes at 1 liter each are arranged in a cube themselves, the edge length of the cube consists of slightly less than 203 mini-cubes.
 
Herb (using PC): Hence, all that gold ever mined fits into a cube with an edge length of 0.1 times 203 equals just a bit over 20 meters.     Herb: Not that impressing, don't you think?
 
Ivy stares at Herb.     Ivy still stares at Herb. – Herb: What...
 
One sees Ivy think. Something appears over Herb.     Ivy's thoughts appear clearer now: The thing over Herb's head is a giant gold cube with an edge length of just over 20 meters.
 
Ivy's thoughts come to a dramatic end: With a giant WHAM! the gold cube rams Herb into the floor.     Herb thinks: Sometimes I Think she hates me...

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