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Super flawless diamonds now made by machines
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| 08/18/03
| Staff Writer
Posted on 08/18/2003 9:12:19 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: veronica; Bernard Marx
Diamonds are death. ~ Bernard Marx
Wrong. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. :) ~ veronica
Since you've clearly never been a guy going through a divorce you fail to appreciate a girl's best friend (or favorite hobby) is causing a slow painful death...
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posted on
08/18/2003 10:30:42 AM PDT
by
null and void
(I learned all I needed to know when a møøselimb co-worker objected to my cubicle Flag. On 9/12!)
To: harpseal
Good point, maybe like a composite using molten diamond instead of resin, or a laminate, like you suggested. I have a Seiko watch with a Saphelex(sp) crystal. It's synthetic saphire over plastic (I think). The theory is that the saphire protects from scratches and the plastic makes it shatter resistant.
82
posted on
08/18/2003 10:30:45 AM PDT
by
NYFriend
To: narby
This is why I stopped reading WND. What, do you deny that diamonds have evolved? Their hardness genes give them good survival characteristics so they can hook up with diamonds of the opposite gender and reproduce.
83
posted on
08/18/2003 10:31:49 AM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: Soliv123
I wonder if the moralistic hippies of the liberal left will tell women to stop wanting diamonds? After all, it is the hippy chicks who are against fur coats for women. If it is wrong to kill a mink for a fur coat, is it OK for 15 year old kids in Africa to kill each other in a rebel diamond mine region, for the diamonds? The moralistic hippies happily falsified DDT data resulting in the death of 10's of millions of Africans. I doubt diamonds will bother them.
84
posted on
08/18/2003 10:31:51 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: dfwgator; HamiltonJay
Technology puts an end to the endless african civil wars and cruelty... film at 11. The leaders of these companies are liable to get a bullet to the brain if they don't watch out.
This is nonsense. Check out the link in my #66 above.
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To: NYFriend
If you smack a diamond ring wrong, it will shatter. Not what you want from armor. You'd rather it be soft but not brittle. They won't make good kinetic energy projectiles, because they'd fragment on impact (if they could survive being accelerated) without penetrating. They would also wear the barrel down.Ah, but a matrix of diamond in steel will grind a penetrator to powder before it gets all the way through. Diamond provides the hardness, the steel provides the toughness, and keeps the grit in contact with the projectile...
87
posted on
08/18/2003 10:34:01 AM PDT
by
null and void
(I learned all I needed to know when a møøselimb co-worker objected to my cubicle Flag. On 9/12!)
To: r9etb
"Diamonds: aluminum for the 21st Century?"
Transparent aluminum. - Star Trek
88
posted on
08/18/2003 10:34:07 AM PDT
by
Chewbacca
(Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
To: null and void; veronica
I didn't say what you say I said. "Diamonds are Death" was posted by wtc911 in #46.
To: LostThread
Heads-up . . .
90
posted on
08/18/2003 10:35:44 AM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: Bernard Marx
Thanks for the correction. :)
91
posted on
08/18/2003 10:37:16 AM PDT
by
veronica
(http://www.petitiononline.com/KN50711/petition.html - Confirm Daniel Pipes to USIPF ......sign this!)
To: Bernard Marx
Take a deep breath and re-read my post. I said that DeBeers maintains control over diamond value by controlling the tap. I said that the media (NYT) is complicit in DeBeers maintaining control by repeatedly calling for governmental controls over what they have decided is the illegal trade. Then I said that they define illegal as any selling going on outside the SA/Amsterdam/Israel/47thSt cartel. You think I'm wrong? Show me where please.
92
posted on
08/18/2003 10:38:22 AM PDT
by
wtc911
To: boris
Wow. That IS amazing. I had no idea diamond conducted heat so well.
93
posted on
08/18/2003 10:38:56 AM PDT
by
lafroste
To: BushCountry
I can't wait for a 100 or 200 gigahertz machine. There's a joke about patience in there somewhere . . .
94
posted on
08/18/2003 10:40:01 AM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: boris
Higher [thermal conductivity] than gold? Surprising if true, which I doubt.Yep, much higher than gold. And if you make diamond out of all C12 isotopes it gets even better.
for electron pushers this is a VERY BIG DEAL.
If we could just dope it for N-type, we'd be all set!
95
posted on
08/18/2003 10:40:12 AM PDT
by
null and void
(I learned all I needed to know when a møøselimb co-worker objected to my cubicle Flag. On 9/12!)
To: aruanan
It's ironic to see your comment on this (diamond related) thread, because methane can be converted into long chain hydrocarbons using high pressure and temperature in the same way that diamonds are made.
Of course you are correct that it's much cheaper to pump it from the ground.
To: Tax-chick
"You must have read "Blood Diamonds." No, I have not, but thanks for the tip, went to Amazon.com and found the book. 8-)
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posted on
08/18/2003 10:44:34 AM PDT
by
etcetera
To: Bernard Marx; DPB101
The NYT sunday mag's cover story is an expose on Victor Bout, who is touted wide and far as the world's largest arms trafficker. His preferred method of payment for the tools of death? A sack full of cash or a sock full of diamonds.
You seem to have a dog in this fight Bernie.
98
posted on
08/18/2003 10:48:21 AM PDT
by
wtc911
To: bedolido
I guess now is not the time to invest in diamonds.
To: webwizard
Gadzooks! You've found DeBeers guilty of...marketing!! How diabolical. Off with their heads! Following your logic, Ford is largely responsible for all the problems associated with automobiles around the world.
As a jeweler and gem-cutter I'm pretty familiar with the history and marketing strategies of DeBeers. Did you know that the Soviet Union marketed its gem diamonds through DeBeers all during the Cold War?
I don't particularly like diamonds and prefer to cut and sell colored gems that thrive in a true free market. I wouldn't care if DeBeers ceased to exist tomorrow morning but I have a problem with the massive amount of mythology associated with the company. The truth is out there, as the TV show says, and it's easily available to anyone who can still read books and do rigorous on-line research. It's a bit difficult to separate the truth from the anti-diamond (read anti-capitalist) propaganda these days, however.
As a cartel I'm much more worried about OPEC than DeBeers. Diamonds are optional, like AIDS. Oil isn't.
I adorn my lady with alexandrites, rare garnets like malaia, Tsavorite, mint grossular, demantoid, chrome pyrope and gorgeous spessartites; lovely white stones like colorless sapphire and a range of other colored beauties much rarer than diamonds.
You mention diamonds losing value the minute you buy them. Have you ever bought a new car and tried to sell it back to the dealership after driving it around the block? I'm amazed that people posting on Free Republic don't seem to understand that businesspeople -- even jewelers -- have to make a profit on what they sell.
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