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A Step Toward the Diamond Age
An anonymous reader writes "Carnegie Institution researchers have learned to produce 10-carat, half-inch thick diamonds at rates of about 100 micrometers per hour, which in the diamond biz is blazingly fast. And these aren't cruddy, yellow diamonds either, but gem-quality stones. The goal: A 300 carat beast in whatever shape they want."
Eventually they'll be so common that they'll be pretty much worthless!
Viva la fight against capitalism!
My other processor is big-endian.
Some of us could finally get lucky.
You have been eaten by a Hurd of GNU.
We can finally end world hunger with an ampel supply of artifical carrots for everyone!
- python_kiss
Diamonds actually don't last forever, actually. Thermodynamically, it's in the favor of the graphite form of carbon. So all diamonds will eventually turn into graphite.
So whenever you go into a jeweler's shop, try to use that fact to bring the price down.
Gonna make me a "glass" house, and then I'm gonna throw me some STONES, oh, yeah.
Yeah, but who's gonna remember "Jigyasubalak's Law"?
'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
It figures... 3 months after I choke on the cost of a rock for my fiancee they release a diamond the size of her head... is there anything these days that doesn't go obsolete?
Next you'll be telling me my new computer is obsolete.
There's always something biger, faster, more sparkly.
I would rather be ashes than dust!
if anyone tells my girlfriend, they'll die a slow and horrible death.
Free as in mason.
You call that a diamond?
This is a diamond.
Hah. What about the plaids?
For a cultured diamond, men just gave their time. For a blood diamond, men gave their lives. What can be more romantic than men dying for your jewelry?
What can be more romantic than men dying for your jewelry?
:)
</sarcasm>
Sarcasm? Clearly, you've never met a woman.