If you could turn everything you touched into gold, how soon would your life become unbearable? Why would this superpower not make you rich? Why could things around you explode? And how could one touch end all life on the planet?
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00:00: Turning everything into gold00:33: You now have a superpower!02:49: The reality of turning things to gold04:13: Gravity05:22: Becoming really rich
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