Mission: To The Moon - Ted Butler (1999)
This is a small clip from an article that Ted Butler wrote in 1999. At that time, silver was trading around $6.00 and gold was trading around $300. I remember reading this article back then and dreaming of the day this would happen. I believe we have had lift-off, but we have only just cleared the launch tower.
Full article here:
https://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_99/butler100499.html
Gold is a multi-stage rocket that has maybe used up its first stage - there's a lot more to be ignited on this journey. Silver is different. Silver is not any rocket. Silver is the Saturn V used in the Apollo Mission to the moon. The biggest, baddest, most awesomely powerful rocket ever produced. The masters of manipulation can't let this baby lift off - it will knock them out of the game forever. But the countdown is over, ignition has been activated, and the fuel is starting to burn. We're in that twilight zone that only lasts a few seconds, but seems an eternity - the time between when we see the flames and the rocket starts to move. The engines are pouring out flames and billowing clouds of steam - yet the rocket doesn't budge. Despite the greatest creation of thrust ever developed, the mass of the rocket is so great it seems to defy the laws of physics and does not move. But you know it will. That's where we are in silver. Those few seconds of delay in the Saturn lift-off may translate into a day, a week, a month in silver. But don't be fooled by any twilight zone appearance of delay in lift-off. Get your ticket and pack your bags - we're going to the moon