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27 meter diameter in fact. A 27-meter sphere is about 150 times as voluminous as a 5-meter sphere.

It's still a mind bogglingly small amount considering that humans have spared no toil, sweat and blood on industrial scale gold mining ever since the dawn of written history - and since gold is so valuable and hard to destroy, most of it should still exist to this day in form or another.

Yet, if you smelted it all to a single object it would fit on a typical single family housing plot.




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