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I think the episode of Speed Racer with the solid gold giant race car might qualify. (The race car that was basically a road-going train.)
I don't know if the Gatchaman episode "The Great Mini Robot Operation" qualifies, since that's about moving a massive amount gold in an inordinately short amount of time. Twice. With a shorter deadline the second time around.
Then there's that the team replaced the gold with gold-painted concrete bricks. The way the show runs, it's reasonable to presume that the Cot W was the one on the original mission. And he didn't notice the difference in the way the sub handled?
Sims 2: Does the ability of a Sim to carry forty bottles of vampire cure and love potion in personal storage count?
"Density is a plot point in the Thundercats episode "All That Glitters", with the fuel source Thundrillium being stated to be denser than gold. Granted, the Thundercats are all pretty strong (even those whose skills don't have anything to do with power still have a ridiculous amount of musculature for someone never shown pumping iron), but for something to be that dense and still of use as anything but a permanent doorstop..."
Panthro picks up a chunk of purified gold two-thirds the size of his fist and molds it into a thick wire, then a near-oval, handling it like clay. Pure gold is soft, but it's heavy. Then Cheetara wears the oval as a necklace for most of the episode! (12 to 18 karat gold is used in jewelry.)
Edited by Candi Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
We seem to have a lot of science buffs here. I've always wanted to know, exactly how heavy would Stitch have to be to be unable to swim? It seems like a few extra pounds of weight could make the difference.
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This is over a year later, but here's my uninformed opinion anyway. When it comes to life forms, density is tricky because it varies a lot within a single body. Creatures with lots of fat and little muscle may float while another one with the same total weight would sink; it's all a matter of comparing your volume with the weight of an equivalent volume of water.
When it comes to swimming, that's another matter altogether, because you are actively "cancelling out" your density with the force of movement, so you just have to be stronger the more "dense" you are (in terms of your body's average density). Since additional density often comes from muscles, it can thus cancel itself out.
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GTA Five, despite dealing with $200 million dollars worth of gold, and the characters holding a single brick with both hands, still get it wrong when they think they can haul it away from the Union Depository with *2 common helicopters* or *3 cars*. That's 2688 kg of gold or 5927 lbs. in today's money. Lester screwed this up, big time.
1 - Find me a Bell Jet Ranger style helo that can haul 1,34 tons or 2963,5 lbs confortably. The max T/O Weight of said Jet Ranger is 3200 lbs while the operating weight is 2382 lbs. Which means you can only carry 236,5 lbs of fuel and pilot and you'd probably crunch the skis when you land. Nope. You'd need a Chinook (Cargobob) for that mission, available in-game.
2 - A bit more believable, a car that can lug 896 kilograms around. A Brazilian ute, sold by Ford called Ford Pampa, was equipped with leaf springs in the back like a semi-truck, and was rated for 500kg or nearly 1000 lbs. of payload. You are almost doubling that for each car. You'd need pickup trucks, again, available in the game, that could in theory haul that payload (1975 lbs when a F-150 can haul 2470) and still have oomph left to avoid the cops, and be chucked inside an actual semi truck's back. "But the cars were reinforced by Franklin". Yeah, handwaving turning 3 cars into 3 reinforced pickup trucks with chunky tires, instead of getting 3 unremarkable pickup trucks already.
I had to run the numbers to find that out, though, which means they almost got it by chance.
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