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Movie Cliche - Money in a Case has no mass or Volume


Stallone goes to the bank to collect his $20 million dollars in CASH. Even with the banks 20% fee this leaves $16 million. Assuming he was paid with all $100 bills - the largest US bill in circulation, that amount of money would weigh over 300 lbs. and would have a volume of a couple cubic feet. In spite of this Stallone leaves the bank carrying a bag barely large enough to carry $2-3 million waving it around as if he holding a loaf of bread. To have been realistic he would have to have had a large foot locker so heavy that he would have barely been able to drag it out of the bank -- either that or many more cases of the type he had weighing 40-60 lbs each.

Just in case you might think that he got gold instead of cash. That would be even worse, since $16 million in gold weighs almost one ton.

I wonder what the technology is that causes money carried in a briefcase in a movie to have neither mass or volume? Maybe I could get a wallet using that technology so when I go shopping I can keep pulling money out of it like circus clowns out of the clown car.

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All this talk about the size and weight of money, and no one is asking how they fit 100's of MB's of data (according to the file list shown briefly on the laptop screen) on a 1.44MB floppy disk? lol!

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that the monorail was on-time is even more a fiction. and that two people planned an event/meet-up around it being on-time was highly unlikely bordering on absurd. tho, rath jumping out probably has happened considering it breaks down all the time.





sake happens

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