What if some alien civilization had the technology to strip not just the earth of all gold but also from satellites surrounding the globe in space? Think like Bad Guys 2 movie near the end.
I didn’t write “should” because my first thought goes to tech that we use already that relies on gold being a part of the equipment. It gets worse when I imagine people having gold teeth and then gets even worse when I think about health tech that could also be using gold for some reason (fake hearts?).
Anyway, it’s kind of a nightmare scenario in my mind.
Plot Twist, you input the target as “Gold”, but the alien’s universal translator was made in China, therefore it converts into the character 金… they get confused and wiped out the entire Kim Dynasty (Kim is written as 金 in Hanja)
Now you have a bunch of angry generals with nukes…
Good Luck.
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