03-18-2009, 12:22 PM
Warren Buffet Wrote:"It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
Actually gold and silver besides being fairly rare both have very special properties that set them apart from more common metals, and give them great utility.
[should not have shot the dolphin]