[Osmf-talk] Chairperson's Report for the AGM

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2016-12-10 9:09 GMT+01:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:

> I would also suggest to issue ten years membership card in pure silver
> with a name of a member. There are companies which produce such metal
> membership cards [2]. The current price of Sterling Silver is $14.18 per
> Ounce (oz), or $0.5 Per Gram (g). Sterling silver is defined as 92.5% pure
> silver (that is why there is a tiny stamp "925").
>
> One membership card from pure silver weighs 24 grams [3]. It means the
> price of the precious metal itself for one card is only $ 12.00. On this
> particular website a silver membership card costs really a lot, because it
> is plated with white gold and rodium. Such a plating is not necessary in
> our case.
>


I had a look into Osmium, unfortunately it is very, very expensive ;-) 30gr
are around 22000 EUR.

Depleted uranium on the other hand is very cheap but impressively dense,
almost twice the density of lead, imagine how breathtaking it would be to
issue hand engraved uranium membership cards, given the same size I'm sure
they would feel incredibly heavy and precious. They could be delivered
molten into a glass capsule in a nice lead containment, and could be passed
on from generation to generation, surely a glimpse on eternity (given a
half-life of 4.5 billion years). I haven't yet received the detailed prices
for materials and production but at this point I am still confident it
would be competible to your solution, and hardly beatable in uniqueness.

Just some food for thought ;-)

On an even more serious sidetrack: if we were to make "special" membership
cards, what about a hologram with some map stuff? Those silver plates tend
to oxidise ;-)
And why limit them to 10 years?

Cheers,
Martin
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