[varmintman]

Gold was originally valuable as an electrical conductor used for things like the ark of the covenant which was basically a primitive capacitor and thought to serve as a sort of a radio receiver to the spirit world, as you read in Exodus.

It has no rational use in our present world other than the one possibility which some have noted, i.e. the stuff is soft, half again as dense as lead and totally inert, and would be the ideal metal for waterfowl shot. You could kill geese all day long with 2.75" shells and #7 shot. You'd have to alloy it with something hard enough to withstand the acceleration.

[LibLieSlayer]

Modern computing and all that goes along with it would be impossible without gold... ask anyone that works in the industry. They mine old computer equipment... for the gold and other precious metals.

LLS