No joke. Serious. I worked in the DoD industry and was a Principle Quality Engineer in materials technology. I specialized in silver vapor deposition for electronics and germanium for infrared microbolometers. My cousin is a pHD in geology and specializes in geo-economics. He made all his money on gold and silver partnership deals, many foreign even as far as Mongolia. We both agree silver will surpass gold as a commodity and this is due to a lot of non reclaimed LOST silver. Save this post and read it again ten years from now. You will say, that freaken guy has to be loaded by now. Guess what? I already am. I read a lot and too well traveled and informed. bank on what I said, it is the truth.