Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get Ron’s presentation but I did get the subsequent panel discussion between him and Tom. I will try to get that up next. Ron’s presentation was one of the highlights for sure. The biggest thing in it was he summarized the amount of water force needed to displace items of varying scales and he essentially said you can displace sand without more easily displacing the money at the same time. He said it’s theoretically impossible for the river to bury the money. He had like a graph of all kinds of items and basically said the ones that required more force to displace than sand could self bury but everything under it couldn't. Also he poured cold water on Tom's diatom assertion by saying that the diatoms could have penetrated the sand and gotten to the money post burial. I don't think he's technically right but after a lot of AI powered research I think it is technically possible but extremely unlikely. The sand would have to be extremely coarse which I understand to not be typical for riverine sand. He agrees the diatoms Tom found (astrionella formosa) were 80-100 microns and you'd need to have a crazy pore throat in the sand filter to get through. He accepted the push back pretty well but wouldn't fully give in.

Here is Tom’s talk from the conference.

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