Gold Bullion Vault - Periodic Table of Videos
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- We're INSIDE a Gold Bullion Vault.
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The Bank of England protects about £197 billion ($315bn) worth of gold, according to the mostly recently published figures.
Film by Brady Haran. Featuring Professor Martyn Poliakoff.
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my man commented on his own 7 year old video.
But u are best .......
Ye
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that this man's first words in the video wasn't "WOAH CHECK OUT ALL GOLD! I'D LIVE LIKE A KING WITH THIS!" It was along the lines of "It's a shame we can't use this vast quantity of an interesting element for scientific purposes." ......A true scientist. Well done.
that is the very reason he is inside that vault and we are not
He is a true scientist. He does not see the value as what he could buy, but what could be accomplished.
PsychoSpider
A lt of us would at least grab a coule before we go.
Not a bank robber man.
ش حسين 😄👍
i like that room of gold looks so casual. Just like any warehouse of things.
It is just a "thing."
What else would it look like? It's a place to store Gold.
@@fostercathead we are simply just concious "things"
They should return it back to India
I absolutely adore how he sees all that gold not as something with monetary value, but rather from a a quite interesting chemical point of view. We need more people like this, guys. People passionate about science and not greedy.
“Cash for gold” would give them $6.97 for all that gold.
Eoah dude why so much overpay???
Best I can do is $3.50 and a stick of gum, and I'm taking a huge risk here.
$000.50
Lol I don't know what people hate them for..I found a gold bracelet in a restaurant parking lot.. took it to cash for gold and got around 189 dollars American for it.
@@THEBOSS-vn2ky you do know 000.50 & 00.50 & 000000.50 are all the same amount right?
"If he was worth his weight in gold..."
People like him, with great knowladge, are worth far more for the human race.
Well said.
I'd still take a brick of gold over him to be honest haha
Virtualgod2009 ya hes worthless to me haha
Colestercamps Virender Sehwag Yes. You guys as individuals would, but what I implied was that I think that he is worth more for the human race than the 75kg of gold in that room that he would represent (assuming he was worth his weight in gold). Clarification: Having gold equal to his weight in that room, or having him research topics like chemistry for the 40 or whatever years he has done so?
Colestercamps Now you're being an asshat about it. What are you even trying to imply? Never mind, don't answer, I've had enough of you.
My dear Professor Poliakoff, I', entirely certain that everyone who watched these videos will agree that you are worth so much more to us than your weight in gold, believe me. These enthusiastic periodic videos are invaluable!
Now the oldest gold bar has been there for an exact century.
Happy centenary Goldie Bar!
Happy birthday Goldie
I would break into there just to organize the bars
random-stuff Na just to stack em.
Ill make a gold bar brick wall.
🤣🤣, you need help?
yep love to use it as Lego
Built a gold box Fort
For so much gold you think they would stack the bars in a consistent pattern. Smh
I know. SMH. That's more than 10$ worth of gold.
Not paid enough.
Magister R'yleth Average worker makes £3m over their lifetime, apparently.
Lol yes. Is a bit unorganized but... and just speculating here... but as the bars they showed were heavy and varying size/weight, probably dedicate a certain amount of shelf space to a certain weight moreso than stacking them up nicely when they may not even be the same size or shape.
Darmok Jalad
Lol
“I’ve never seen so much of any element”
Nitrogen-“am I just a joke to you?”
can you see nitrogen? interesting
I dare you to collect tons of nitrogen in tank and look at it and say "ahh all the nitrogen i collected, I've never seen so much of any element"
@@NiGGaZtcz well you can see liquid nitrogen, but the gas form of course that's a different story
Metal
@@NiGGaZtcz Look at the sky
"For those of you that use imperial units, thats two stone."
Now I get it
Steins;Gate is the best
KURISUTINA
Well you can see nitrogen but I mean have they ever been to an ocean?
I respect this man more than gold.
Ss Ss you should... the gold and money are worth nothing without people... money is just a paper and gold is just another element worth nothing to other animals... It is humans that made gold what it is...
@@stenky02 Global warming, pollution, animal abuse, drug abuse, alcoholics, rapists, murderers, cannibals, overpopulation, scams, illegal pornography, arsonists, terrorists, kul klox klan, ISIS, corrupt politicians, greedy people and etc.
That's the gold?
Nothing is perfect.
No one is perfect.
He couldve walked out with at least 3 bars in his hair and noone wouldve ever known...
+CantonOhio 330 I would not be surprised if he stashed a couple of bars in his hair.
😂😂😂😂
+CantonOhio 330 considering each bar weights 13kg. All security had to do is get him to step on a weight scale before leaving...
Sigh @ all the serious reactions, he is just making a joke about the professor his hair.
Damn dude, the guy just made an offhand joke about the guys hair, and you go all serious on him. Chill out man. Do you know how?
A common man sees economic value in Gold, a scientist sees the gold as a precious element.
soulassassin0g what does a hair dresser see ??
@@mikerodriguez6003 golden opportunity :)
@@mikerodriguez6003 Goldilocks?
Gold is just a metal, nothing special or precious about it? rarity? who cares?
I wouldnt say a common man I'd say a smart man lol
“It could be doing exciting reactions...” omg! I love that professor
He's a true scientist, not caught by simple monetary value.
He might be able to smuggle out one of those bars in his hair.
@underhill918gaming5 he's too old
I can't decide which is more amazing--the insane amount of gold or home boy's hair.
P. Brady Fish you don't have to choose between the two
theyre both totally awesome, and for the same reason
Yes too that. he must have try ed, to put one bar at least down his pants . After all, of the checks.
+Teagan Smith
...they're... both worth a lot of money?
...
Be right back. *grabs electric razor*
+Krusty Kraken share some hair with me?
if i rob a bank i'm gonna blame this video for inspiring me.
Johnny Blood you gonna need some muscle
He sayied he have never seen so much of any element but he is still breathing air, and if you say you can't see it then look at the buildings
@@nistorionut7132 There's so much wrong with this statement, but for the sake of brevity: air isn't an element
I wonder if they searched his hair before leaving.
Haha 😂😂😂
+Zoltán Marosi pls
Probably has metal detectors
I assume they weigh you very accurately before you go in and after you leave.
Well I suppose it is fine to leave lighter than you entered. It is if you magically gain weight in a bank they'd be suspicious.
"and for those who use imperial units, that's two stone"
what a legend
I'm from South Africa, and when we visited the gold mines there, there was a lecture all about gold and they had a single gold bullion on the table. The guy said that if you can lift the bar with just your fingers, you can have it. Everyone tried including me, and it just was not possible. Those bars you see are intensely heavy
there are a lot of viral videos about tungsten cubes on the internet. density wise, gold is basically softer, malleable, and yellow tungsten. if one ever watches one of those videos, dropping a golden cube would basically have the same effect (but it would probably damage the gold a bit)
Sadly, those bars won't make very durable mining tools. They can make some wicked powered rails though.
+Miguelin Chavarria They do.
Minecraft confirmed!
+Miguelin Chavarria ever seen an electric subway?
they usually use powered rails
+Miguelin Chavarria Don't pee on the third rail!
+nick Kan they are powered from the top not the bottom...
"It could be doing exciting reactions", only a true chemist can utter those words when talking about a precious metal.
Alchemy is an exciting reaction
The color and energy of pure gold is amazing. The only metal that can super conduct at room temperature. Cover it in acid and its still right there looking at you. Will not corrode after a million years.
Sweet! All that gold could almost pay my student debt.
SAME
XD
i can relate lol
OldSoulPortal It's an american joke, A lot of colleges in US have a ridiculous fee you have to pay to get in.
I'm personally not american, it's just something I found funny on reddit and decided to post here since a lot of people are.
All that gold :|
may be a couple of bars will do.
They should use one of those gold bars to invest in some fancy shelves.
lol
ahaha
My OCD is going off that the bars are arranged seemingly haphazardly. I want to break into that room, not to steal anything, but to just spend some time fixing the bar alignment.
Rip ur back lol
+Michael Moore That's not OCD. lol
+Michael Moore I would build a fort. Who is in? Break into that place and build forts!
That's what I was thinking
Yep. Me too.
"I've never seen so much of any element"
Oxygen: Am I a joke to you?
@John F ok boomer I guess jokes are illegal now
Actually, if you stand on top of the tallest of mountains, or look out the highest of planes, I'm sure you can see tons of oxygen. Maybe tons of carbon as well. It'll be spread out of course.
Nitrogen: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?
@@thespelsheepington6664 Nobody cares for Nitrogen.
Actually, we can't see oxygen in the air because it's a gas! (dramatic music royalty-free sfx)
While no one was looking, he was able to snatch one and hide it in his hair. To this day no one knows the mystery of the missing gold bar. Now you know.
He was preparing his whole life for that day,
that would hurt your neck really bad :(
Hircine I wouldn't mind a hurt neck for 400k pounds!
Genius...
4:27 "...rather miserable loaf of bread, but pretty fantastic lump of gold"
sounds like something said by the Discworld dwarves
That feeling when you leave that room without even taking one.
Like YA!!
Not Real gold..
Yeah, your right
Feels giggling
Not a nice feeling
Mr krabs would go crazy in there
This guy looks like science
If you look up the word science in the dictionary you see a picture of him next to it.
ROFL this made me laugh irl and had to let you know, thank you
Old and useless???
>science
>useless
Albert Einstein's brother you ain't know?
well, you know this guy is serious about science when he's in a vault of gold, and is more amazed at the fact of it being an element than how much it's worth
What if it isn't gold, and is extremely dense and hard chocolate?
Kazoo whale 🤔 hmmm...
Kazoo Whale, better yet!
I would be happy either way.
Chocolate smells
Advocatus Diaboli how do you know he’s white?
That guy's strong lifting those gold bar at this age!
Thorin's gonna get crazy about this.
Smaug would be wrapped around them shelving units with one eye open.....this guy has got gold fever
Wow if I was in that room my hair would look like that too.
that's gotta be at least 7$ worth of gold...
no no it must be at least $8.
I think you guys are forgetting about inflation.
you're right.... it must be $8.01!
The best i can do is 30dollars
$30? you must be loaded
Incidentally, I've visited an Australian mint & their tour includes a demonstration with Gold, quite the show.
I think solid gold has a beautiful color, I love it
SS (Solid Silliness) - you can't see - color inside - a few atoms on outside - same effect
That’s really clever with the serial numbers. “I’ll sell you some gold, but you have to keep it at my house”
it is sad to see a room that is worth more than the country i am from
Canada lol
The stacking of that gold got my OCD going crazy
You dont even have OCD
@@bartvanloo3261 stop he is just joking. and how do you know he doesn't have OCD?
@@bartvanloo3261 wat?
@@TheDeadMeme27 yea, its actually pretty bad lol
@@amistry605 please stop misusing the term ocd
I watch these videos periodically
63 likes, well i didn't expect much of a reaction anyway...
Sweet
This comment make me React
Professor you are amazing, I really enjoy all of your videos. Thank you for taking the time to publish the videos sir!!
I'm slowly coming up with a plot that involves three British mini's and a bus... Watch this space.
funny movie. loved the ending.
and the car breaks down cos its to damn heavy.
SirNerrad
what money?
I love gold man. My great grandpa was a runaway boy from a prestigious nobel family in Portugal. He had this gold necklace around his neck with his enitials on it for his entire life, which now a family heirloom passed down to the oldest son of every generation. First son, first grandson etc. I so happened to be the inheritor of the necklace and it is now the most precious thing I own. Gold is a wondrous material... So beautiful and so valuable. One of my goals in life is to have my family crest inbeded in a signat ring, to make a new heirloom for my future family to remember me by.
I don't know why but when I see a gold ingot I get the urge to bite it
+ForeverOfTheStars Chocolate?
more like butter
How many gold ingots have you seen?
Omfg, someone finally gets me.
looks like butter or cheese
Those are some hella strong shelving units. I guess they're not IKEA?
Those are METAL shelves
All I can think is what would happen if someone were trapped inside a vault like that in an earthquake...
I would build a fort out of the gold. A really big one too, And when somebody found me I would say, (welcome to my money kingdom!!) steal it and I'll throw these at you.
+Logan Lafoe During an earthquake? And have the most unstable roof ever made out of heavy gold bars? Or is it a really crappy fort without a roof?
+IoEstasCedonta
I don't think an earthquake will do much to a vault that strong. As long as you stay away from the falling shelves and blocks of gold, you will be quite safe!! And considering the value of the gold in there, you will be rescued pretty soon when the authorities come by to have a check to make sure the gold is safe.
England doesn't have earth quakes apart from very small after shocks from earth quakes far away if their large enough
jeez I'll just die in there, when I need food and water better..
The gold room of the US Federal Reserve in NY had bars of gold stacked from the floor to the ceiling and locked in lockers labeled with each country's name (that stored their gold there).
I went there on a field trip in college but not sure if they give tours to just anyone.
subbed just for the hair.
Look at 3:28, the cameraman has stolen a bar of gold in his pocket
lol
Pricop George u wot m8
The Gixxerman The gold ingot is so heavy, so it could tear off his pocket.
***** ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The Gixxerman Thats not a gold bar. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
once you get in that room i bet the first thing that goes through your mind is how can i get one of these out of here^^
Kilr Debario OMG sameeeeeee
Man :brings all the gold bars in that vault to gold and silver pawn shop
Rick: " the best I can do is $5 I'm taking a huge risk here"
5:34 diversion achieved, window small. Now or never!
I could not control myself in there.
Just one of those is enormously heavy. Their best security feature is the weight of the gold itself
***** but could you fight off the armed guards while carrying that weight? There's no way a place like this *doesn't* have armed guards
2bit MarketAnarchist
okay if we're going with a realistic scenario i'd bring a cart for the gold bars and i wouldn't be alone. and also i would never get inside in the first place.
***** but let's not be that realistic :-)
2bit MarketAnarchist have you finished GTA5? do it that way xD
"That's disappointing. I thought I was worth more."
I love this dry humor :)
''You could buy two nice houses from a block like this''.
2021 enters the chat
Epic afro professor, very useful in smuggling one of those bar out...
xD
jeeze thowe shelves are strong
Its also about weight displacement. They may carry a tonne each, but the bars are spread out across each shelf, so that the actual weight stress is no where near a tonne.
Rockstar Games would made the final Heist in GTA V much better with this instead of "Union Depository" xD
Celestial Archangel Phoenix yes!
The question you should ask is who buildt the stands holding the gold bars?. Those are very solid.
To me it seems like a terrible waste to store all that gold in vaults, while not doing anything with it. Just think of how many people lost their lives over this heap of metal.
Do they do public tours though these vaults... I wonder!
@jaue82 when polititians emptied
They do public vault tours in the United States (in NYC). I toured it about a year ago. It's absolutely amazing! It's a shame they weren't giving any samples out...
@@chrism6904 where?
Lol
@Amaan Ahamed Sure they could. Ticket price for the tour: 300,000 USD
“I’ve never seen so much of any element”
Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen: am I a joke to you?
How much oxygen and nitrogen do you SEE regularly? haha
. Well you can’t see those elements ..... so
Charles Kopcho well what about carbon then
I think he means pure elements
SEEN!
I love this man. He explained it very natural
At 4:38 it would of been awesome if he picked it up and started running
+tac540 Hahahaha
Lol I watched for it! Yes that would have been hilarious
haha starts shuffling off
+DeclanBurger haha yep! nice and calm then picking up speed
Not Real gold..If it was,he'd never make it 10 step's.
Thanks RUclips for showing me a video I’ve seen a few times.. but I guess I’ll just watch it again.
That is truly a beautiful sight to behold, to see an entire countries worth inside a vault physically represented. That is really amazing.
+Marth That isn't the only gold vault in England. That's but one bank's worth.
+bayushizero Although I'm sure that bank in England probably contains a larger amount compared to some of the other banks. But it's also really amazing some of that gold is a hundred years old, it's like that gold is a piece of history. Through two world wars, Vietnam, Cold War, and so many other events, but that gold has been through it all. If only it could talk.
+Marth would be great except that it's been holed up in a boring vault for a lot of its life
I'm feeling sort of like the possession of the ring from LOTR.. I just want to curl upx surround myself in the gold and lie in it for a while.
Letting someone dubbed 'The Professor' into the Bank of England vault is a huge gamble
1st thing when he sees this much Aureum: Think of the reactions we can do!
Aurum*
i'd rather have 10,lbs of lobster, (smoked / dried) 1million bullets, 750,000 bottles of cabernet sauvignon, 100,000 head wagyu beef, 2,000,000 mill acres of iowa / washington/ oregon farmland.
Imagine the strength of the vaults floor and shelving system!!
Yes may be 2 mts thick
Yeah
They’re made of Gold
one day they will find that some of those amazing bars are with Tungsten core....... (unless they are implementing ultrasonice tests)..... might be interesting to know thier quality control procedure.
A notch apple has 8 gold blocks 1 gold block=9 gold bars 1 bar=435 000 pounds thats $615525 so 615525x9x8=5538725x8=$44317800 or $44.3 billion for 1 apple
+CrazyMarkSRB A more accurate number would be 1 meter cubed of gold. So 19.3 g/cm^3 * 1 000 000 cm^3/m^3 * 8 m^3= 154 400 000 g. 154 400 000 g * $40.11/g= $6,192,683,905.61
If i was a "jumper" , i wud wipe this place clean.
Emer Gencyexitsonly थैंक यू धन्यवाद थैंक यू
This Vault is a Job for the Payday Gang
Imaging robbing just a shelf of this gold you would be set for life
dannyboiiidead just 10 of em and youd be set for life
This reminds me of the over drill Easter egg more like it.
+Mehmet Özbolat I'll be okay with one lol I don't need much to live.
Guys. The thermal drill. Go get it.
I'd be a little nervous standing next to those shelves. If they happened to fall over, you'd be squashed lol
The UK only has 310 tonnes of gold... The U.S. has 8,133.5... Wow... I would pay 200 dollars just to walk through the U.S.'s gold rooms in utter amazement.
Except here in the U.S. even the owners of the gold aren't allowed to see it, just ask Germany :p
You couldn't pay a million to see it. Its all in fort knox
MadMarcusProductionz try going into the most heavily defended vault. ever.
+VideoGameChimp5 I believe most of the gold in the US is in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
+Connor Skudlarek I believe most of the gold of the US is in China
"I've never seen so much of an element"
Oh, if only you could see the nitrogen in the air...
Or the carbon in a burnt forest
Nitrogen in air is N2 which is NOT an element.. Gold stays as Au lol
Joonghyun Lee Nitrogen is a diatomic molecule and only exists purely as N2. It's not in a compound with any other elements in that state
+MAD “SKRILLABOYZ” SKRILLA He may simply mean a pure element, which would be believable.
+Team Fortress Poo There isnt actually that much of air surrounding him. All the air or nitrogen in the room still weights much less than the gold stored there.
Those are the strongest shelves I've ever seen
I'm convinced that if the professor were to be given all this gold, he would use them all for experiments instead of selling them
New drinking game : take a shot everytime he say gold
Wonder how many man crew you would need to rob the bank of england would be the best bank robber of all time lol
bill gates would find this vault down the side of his sofa
This little vault actually holds +3x the worth of Bill Gates entire net.
@@Bongodudeguy sArCaSm
Bill Gates doesn't have this much money though.
I never thought I would catch a Gold fever in less than 7 minutes!!
*The professor would like to know your location*
He took 0.325 oz of gold in his hair 😂
thats why he goes to these metal refineries you're exposing his secret
Would they notice you bringing a big bucket of aqua regia?
+arjenbij That made me giggle
Haha, he could accidentally spill it on one of the shelves
2022, We sure are remembering gold now! To us, you ARE worth your weight in gold.. thank you
Great , I am finally able to see all my ancestor's Wealth at one SPOT !!
I feel you bro
58 billion and 1 million dollars worth of gold. If this place ever got cleaned out i bet every jewelry shop would stop buying gold and assume it's all stolen.
I like his hair more than those gold bars
brilliant. Sir Martyn Poliakoff was the perfect person to do this with!
Finally I found something that jeff bezos can't afford.
Thankachan Samuel he still can afford these
@@Rohandutt no he can't
Brendan Griffith maybe a fraction of it , if not all
Oh yes he can...
He can afford 2.6k shelves of gold, so yeah he can probably buy that
It’s painful to see so much riches and not having any
Au
Seeing all that wealth hoarded and stored away
@@Polivart that's a bank's job
Nice, see what you did there
It's crazy being given even one of those bricks would be life changing to so many people.
111 likes.
5:00 "those Damned imperials"
I noticed the removal of the Manhattan project references. I suspect that was not your decision. Love your vids and watch them all, some more than once