Gold is extremely important for the construction of space craft. And we are going to the stars, just not with Tom DeLonge and his bullshit disclosure project, but they were right about one thing, the importance of meta materials.
If one can nanoscale engineer various metals into their monatomic forms, especially gold, and then layer them in different combinations one atom in thick you could build a great number of things. Materials that are very very strong, antigravity conferring, definitely metas that are radar absorbment, possibly stuff invisible to the naked eye, capacitors of a whole new type, radiation proof, highlly efficienciet batteries, the list is endless. Especially once you combine nanotechnology, monoatomics, and various crystals.
Gold also = code for drugs according to Sterling and Peggy Seagreave in ‘’’Gold warriors’’’ (all about the Japanese hiding their gold throughout the Phillipines post WWII and the US recovery of those funds)
There were the Gold Backed Bearer Bonds scandals of recent years. People were found trying to cash huge sums of money in so called bearer bonds. Researchers have hypothesized these sums were drawn from the collateralization of local space, i.e. asteroids planets and their mineral compositions.
There is also a possibility that we ‘’were’’ just a slave species created by the gods to mine gold. (For some reason Minecraft and other mining games seem very appealing to huge swaths of the population.
It’s also possible that we’ve realized gold is extremely rare in the universe and our solar system, for whatever reason.