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Diamond Age Coming Soon
Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'The many facets of man-made diamonds,' Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) writes that synthetic diamonds are getting bigger and cheaper. An example: for Valentine's Day, you can buy a yellow colored man-made diamond, visibly indistinguishable from a natural one, for $4,000 per carat. This is a 30% discount when compared with a natural diamond. This very long article also says that if synthetic diamond makers are targeting the jewelry market first, these new products will have an impact on many other industries. Not only is it now possible to grow bigger diamonds, you also can choose their color. 'Colored diamonds, which are valuable and very rare, can be created by introducing carefully controlled elemental impurities into the stone,' says C&EN. For instance, nitrogen produces a yellow stone. Infusing boron into the growing diamond produces a blue gem. This overview contains some details, references and photos of men-made diamonds, but read the original article for even more technical explanations if you have the time."
They're also sending hundreds people here to mine the diamonds for them.
...that I can't even afford the knock-off diamonds on this V-day, you insensitive clod!
-Valiss
$4,000 a karat sounds a bit higher than a natural diamond.
"Look...I got you this overpriced diamond...and its all nice and yellow"
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The next girl who fakes an orgasm with me will get one of these. Then we'll see who's a fat jobless loser.
I also reply below your current threshold.
Aparently I'm not the only one that can't afford a knock-off diamond.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
I understand it is time to sell my bag of diamonds before they still have some value :)
M.
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That would save me some bucks this Valentine's Day...
Way to go, slashdot! This is just what the few geeks who actually have significant others want to hear...ON VALENTINE'S DAY AFTERNOON!!!!!
Perhaps last week or before would have served us a bit better, eh?
"visibly indistinguishable from a natural one"..suuure buddy, let me introduce you to a new and sofisticated tool for certifying the authenticity of a diamond, the girlfriend. Somehow they always know...damn it
This can applied to the gold industries a well, nobody actaully knows how much gold there is because no one is particularly interested for various obvious reasons.
Jonathanjk.com
Tommy: What's got him creased?
Kev: It's a diamond
Tommy: The fuckin' thing's brown.
Paul: It's called champagne; it's a trend
Tommy: Oh right, they were calling it "piss", but they weren't moving any units
Dude, this is Slashdot.
Our imaginary girlfriends would be more than happy with a cubic zirconia. ;)
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Open Source diamonds! Yay!
isn't that offensive? perhaps they prefer to be called diamonds of color?
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
My boss has been diamonds sythethically between his ass cheeks for years.
Find a way to get BPM 37093 or just a large part of it returned to Earth, and you'll have DeBeers out of business instantly...
Yeah, they won't let them call the artifical ones LinDiamonds (tm) :)
Here's something: Literally give your significant other the sun . . . A white dwarf diamond that is!
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Cambridge, and UFSC Brazil have identified in the constellation Centaurus what is likely to be the fate of our own sun. With a rhythmically harmonious core and a 'suface' of hydrogen and helium this carbon-predominant cellestial body is known as BPM 37093. It is the largest diamond ever indentified in the wild at Twenty-five hundred miles across and weighing 5 million trillion trillion pounds!". Artistic Representainions and Videos are available here.
The Catto Diamond
A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.
He asked her about it.
"This is the Catto diamond," she said. "It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse that goes with it."
"Oh - what's the curse?" the man asked.
"Mr. Catto."
Stuff that matters.
I say enough of this. I'm tired of diamond being the best at everything. Let's all surround diamond after posting, and set it straight. Maybe we can go all Orwell on this holier-than-thou tetrahedral structure, and erase it from history. Now who's the hardest, huh?
Diamond thinks is so tough....
A diamond ring needs to cost about twenty bucks.
Until then it's cubic zirconia and $3980 worth of food and heating oil for you, my sweet.
KFG
Hey! Those are fake! (diamonds)
Dumping into the ocean, you say? Got some GPS numbers for me?
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Scientists to DeBeers: FUCK YOU!!!
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
"so I have they"
Jesus christ, lay off the booze.
...call it "DaBrews".
If you live in Chicago, you could call it "DaBears"... although you might get sued by someone else
Are the miners in a union? Because that would perfectly explain why they'd have to dump them instead of stop mining. Then again, union miners would probably never mine enough to create a surplus; they'd be too busy filing grievances against their bosses.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Considering that most people have brown eyes....
Ya, and the biggest marketing scam of all is the notion that you don't love your wife if you don't send a suitcase full of money to some billionaire in South Africa. What a farce.
I watch Brit Hume on Fox News
One of my favorites was a girl (who I worked with at the time) who said that if *her* (hypothetical) boyfriend asked her to marry him, he'd better have at least a 2-carat ring for her or she'd break up with him immediately.
I'dlike to pull a Churchill on her. Tell her you don't have a diamond ring, but you would give her $50 to sleep with you once. "We already know what kind of girl you are, we're just haggling over the price."
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Typical Slashdot comment.
The rest of us, who actually want a wife and kids..
If you're going to have an imaginary girlfriend, you need to learn to do it right. My imaginary girlfriend was quite happy with a new copy of Metroid: Zero Mission.
I mean, hell, may as well go for broke.
But you can buy gold jewellery... it may not be so heavily marketed as 'romantic' compared to diamonds, but it can be just as expensive and that's the important thing.
Gold mining is not a cartel, and I don't think artificial gold will be made in large quantities any time soon.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Hell! I'm still trying to understand why anyone would buy a diamond, real or otherwise.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
not if you're using it as gambling collateral
Oh man, those guys in Iraq were actually trying to make diamonds and not A-bombs, so the explosives were wrapped around graphite instead of uranium. No wonder the WMD search squad didn't find anything. Thanks for the explanation.