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- jkaiser, on 10/12/2007, -14/+339I would pay about $2,878 for that
- coolian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+171"Yeay! I just built a crazyass pyramid with 287,820 pennies!"
"Now what?" - N1NJ4hippie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+170Just think how bad your hands would smell.
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -10/+171@jkaiser
"I would pay about $2,878 for that"
I'm sure that they couldn't bear to part with it for at least $2,878.20 - ethon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+107god, i want to knock that over...
- directedition, on 10/12/2007, -1/+83Without a penny, how would I get lucky for a day?
No, I'm not talking about one-cent hookers. - directedition, on 10/12/2007, -5/+79+shipping?
- sluggoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+59I wonder if a tiny little Abe Lincoln is buried inside.
- jshapiro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48I wish he was talking about one-cent hookers.
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47Some assembly required.
- ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44He should have made a model of the Lincoln Memorial instead.
- silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42see why we can't eliminate the penny? we would lose an important art form
or something - Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44You could melt it all down and sell the raw metals for profit, if you don't' mind breaking the law. I recall recent stories about a new law banning the melting of pennies.
- huber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38verizon would pay $287,800. Sell it to them.
- mccargo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+412 words... ass pennies
- pominviller29, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36bring it to a coin star machine
- crackedplastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Looking at the picture, buying a better camera with that money might be a better idea.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I don't think coinstar takes pyramids anymore.
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31My god I just have the biggest boyish urge to destroy that pyramid.
admit it, all guys like breaking stuff.
Edit: ahh ethon just saw your comment. respect - po43292, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29New front page headline: "Best ever AMAZING HDR photo of Pennies."
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Yep, you can't melt down pennies and nickels for all that valuable zinc, copper, and nickel anymore:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-12-14-melting-ban-usat_x.htm - gyrfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30@jkaiser
Zinc is worth around $3400 a ton. 1 ton is 987104 grams. 287820 pennies are 701561 grams.
Not including the 2.5% copper in each penny... They have a melt value of atleast $2400. - jimic79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Yeah, get one of those turbo-highspeed cameras and record it getting knocked over... That would be awesome. I'd pay like $5 to see that.
- Kronos6948, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26@lordofthetrons:
Pennies are no longer just copper...I don't remember what the copper is sandwiched with, but you'd have to separate the metals after melting the pennies down... - Cimlite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24My thoughts exactly... Seeing that picture all I want to do is go "This is Sparta!" on it.
- owais, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24that must be really boring to make.
- Ransomowris, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24"You could melt it all down and sell the raw metals for profit, if you don't' mind breaking the law. I recall recent stories about a new law banning the melting of pennies."
US Law has always prohibited the destruction of paper money/coinage. I'm not sure what the penalty is, but I think it's pretty ridiculous, with a fine into the tens of thousands of dollars, and up to 10 years jailtime. - po43292, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Make sure you use the famous Coinstar hack first though. Unplug the inter-web tube from the back of the machine?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/1.asp
- Broman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Someone check my math, but doesn't that weigh approx. 1586 lbs? No wonder they needed the 4 inch casters under the table.
- ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16You can tell they are not pet owners.
- swiftekho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16http://www.fincher.org/Misc/Pennies/
- radarx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'd like to see Chris Farley take a SNL dive into while talking about a van down by the river.
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Ok, I'll say it....
Someone needs to get laid... He just needs to hope the hooker takes pennies.... - darzeecompany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15If you look at the site this came from, they want to raise awareness for colorectal cancer. So, they really are ass pennies.
- AnotherThought, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14personally, if the title was "Penny Pyramid [Pic]" i think it would still be just as amazing.. but that's just me, cuz i have become so numb to the words 'amazing' and 'ever' on digg
- omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Judging by the estimated value of 1.12 cents (that's .0112 dollars) per penny (from the USA Today article that Otto linked to), that pyramid would be worth $3,223.58. The problem is, can you melt and separate the metals efficiently enough to cover the $350 net profit?
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15It weighs almost a ton. You're not going to knock it over by sneezing.
- bezos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Dear Diggees! I enjoyed reading the comments, honest and to the point. Just thought you guys might want a bit more to eat up....
The pennies used were from my personal collection of over 35 years. Most of the pennies are made of copper and dated pre-1982. The Penny Pyramid Project I founded is a non-for profit educational organization. Our signature penny pyramid fundraiser is used in school grades 3-8 and teaches how to raise money that they (the children) in turn are then empowered and responsible in distributing to other charitable organizations. A full size replica of the pyramid will be toured from school to school down here in Florida. The cool part is that the story and the building of the pyramid will be featured in Ripley’s Believe it or Not! 2007 book "The Remarkable Revealed" (release date August 2007). Check out the recent write-up
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/cities_neighborhoods/miramar/16340043.htm
Finally, for those curious minded on how this was built, well, just check out the time-lapse on youtube.com......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDJ3sor2oQ0
thanks for the diggs!
Marcelo Bezos, Founder
Penny Pyramid Project
contactus@pennypyramidproject.com
www.pennypyramidproject.com - terribly1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Be neat to run a bit of current through it all and weld it together.
- Brucetheshark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Oh man, put that on the train tracks...
- DeepV, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8ya know.. he spent all that time working on that pyramid, and decides to take a blurry picture of it using a horrible camera whose resolution sucks!
otherwise pretty cool! - DickyMcPhallus, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18"Make everything round to the nearest 5 cents and get rid them already"
That is such a retarded thing to say. Taxes are the reason we need pennies. If you rounded up or down the price of stuff after taxes to the nearest nickel, every year either the consumer would be losing billions of dollars or the state and federal governments would be. A penny here and there multiplied by billions of transactions. The oil industry plays that game with gas prices. Think about it, every gas station in the world has the price of gas ending with 9/10 of one cent. If you buy a gallon of gas, do you pay 9/10 of a cent? No you pay one cent. Do this for 20 gallons of gas a week for one year and it starts to add up when you're dealing with 200 million people. 4 Million dollars from American consumers a year that we are giving them for free. And that is a very lower bound estimate. Digg me down for pointing out the blatantly obvious. - dlowx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I'll be damned if this guy calls me a Diggee again...
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Actually it is exactly where I'd expect to see it. In the living room of a 65+ year old woman. I am sure she asks her son every day how much longer it is going to be there.
- redforty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9What about http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/beeramid/beeramid/a7.JPG ?
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@stevenvh
1,000,000 grams = 1 *metric* ton. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Google agrees with you: http://www.google.com/search?q=287820++*+2.5+grams+in+pounds
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If that isn't a symbol of the Illuminati, I don't know what is!
- robman8023, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@dickymcphallus
You sir, are a moron. We'd save lots of money by eliminating the penny, based purely on the fact that it costs more to make them then they're worth...not to mention the fact that they annoy the hell out of me.
By your brilliant logic (which is in doubt based on your sub-par rounding skills), we should advocate the creation of the 1/10 of a cent coin. -
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