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Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band?
mbutala writes "I am getting close to popping the question, and I've been racking my brain for an idea for a cool and unique wedding band. I've been thinking of contacting a company that can (possibly) fabricate a ring from pure Iridium (Ir) or a nearly pure alloy. It is the most corrosion-resistant metal known — it cannot be dissolved in aqua regia like gold or platinum. Iridium is extremely rare on Earth, and the high concentration of it at the K-T boundary in the Earth's crust is what suggests a meteor took out the dinosaurs. I am positive that the symbolism of the permanence of Iridium, the reminder that we are star-stuff, and the fact that the ring would be one-of-a-kind would really strike a chord with my girlfriend. It's a really geeky idea, so I thought I would run it past you all — what do you think? Any other ideas?"
If it's made out of Platinum-Iridium, you can make a wedding band which weighs exactly one kilogram.
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That way, your wife can say, "It's very, very dense. Just like my husband."
Yes, nothing says eternal love like something that caused one of largest losses of life the Earth has ever seen.
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I had a friend years ago who had been married 9 times when we lost track of him. Each time, he would disappear for months at a time to Alaska in order to kill a grizzly bear from whose bones he would hand carve a wedding ring for his wife-to-be. After the 4th bear, it became pretty clear that his marriages were an excuse to go kill go bears. They were all crazy hippy chicks, but none of the wives seemed to find it any less romantic that they were (nth) to have received a hand-carved wedding ring from the bones of a bear killed by the bare hands of their man.
Go north, to Alaska . . . you know what you need to do.
I nominate this as the best advice ever posted on Slashdot.
Every woman dreams of the perfect "fairy princes" wedding. Even the ones that say otherwise have that dream. If you are in any way responsible for that dream not coming true, you will pay for it for the rest of your life. It's nearly impossible to pull off that kind of wedding. Just don't be the fool who screws it up.
My baby sisters wedding was screwed up by the bakery. They completely screwed up her wedding cake order and delivered a lovely green Irish derby cake.
My wedding was in a castle in Europe (Buda Castle, Budapest). The women in my family have yet to forgive me for outdoing them.
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... and she gave me a Token Ring.
Honest.
I get resizing offers in my e-mail all the time.
SlashDot is up to almost a million for uid. Statistically, there's got to be at least 10 user's that are/were married at some point in their lives. Hell, I'll go out on a limb and say 15.
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The ring could always be upgraded with an additional core, a co-ring or a front-end ring to give the extra capacity required. Alternatively, they could run a copy of the ring on a virtual finger.
One final possibility is to switch the larger unit for a thinner client.
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There you are! That was a helluva night.. shame we never saw each other since. :(
Also, keep in mind that fingers do get larger during the normal course of life, so you will need to resize it anyway at some point in the future.
Why resize the engagement ring? In marriage there are three rings:
Engagement Ring
Wedding Ring
Suffering
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