Gem-quality artificial diamonds
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this dude may have put De Beers out of business, put a stop to the lunacy and civil war in Angola, Sierra Leone and other banana republic African countries...
Man-made diamonds sparkle with potential
(source: USAToday)
Dude just made jewellery quality diamonds in his own backyard... this has potential to cripple the diamond industry..
however, with such diamonds available because of the potential of mass production, things may never be the same again... computer makers can create computers that run so fast that they would melt the materials available today...
other things that can be made out of diamonds like that are car parts that are essentially frictionless, and prosthetic parts for humans... the potential is endless!
i hope this invention gets out, makes this dude rich through a lot of royalties he earns for everything that is invented because of the availability of diamonds...
and most of all, put a stop to the conflicts being fought for the control of the diamond fields in Africa... -
Men of the world, rejoice!
The price of diamonds could be on the way down.
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heh .... you think so ? ....Originally posted by Kuali Baba:Men of the world, rejoice!
The price of diamonds could be on the way down. 
what would a woman prefer ? ... a real Gucci bag ... or a fake pasar malam knock off ? ...
the only way you perhaps save your pocket i reckon ... other than to look for a low-maintenance wifey .... would be perhaps to look for one allergic to precious metals and gems (thankfully, some women do have such allergies ... really !) -
You can get a nice, decent branded bag that doesn't cost an arm and a leg like Gucci.Originally posted by Fatum:heh .... you think so ? ....
what would a woman prefer ? ... a real Gucci bag ... or a fake pasar malam knock off ? ...
the only way you perhaps save your pocket i reckon ... other than to look for a low-maintenance wifey .... would be perhaps to look for one allergic to precious metals and gems (thankfully, some women do have such allergies ... really !) There are also non-branded bags available at stores here that are pretty and not available branded. I believe that having one or two branded bags is more than enough, you can purchase the rest from neighbourhood shopping malls.
Given $5,000, I'd rather stretch it as far as I can by purchasing a whole lotta nice clothes, shoes, accessories, bags, etc etc etc, then just get ONE Gucci bag!
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:Men of the world, rejoice!
The price of diamonds could be on the way down.
Well, women rejoice too... it's now going to be much cheaper to own one of 'em sparkly thangs!! -
actually, i don't give a damn about the snob appeal things.. i'd rather buy Mrs Bear sapphires or her birthstones
but more excited by the potential of prosthetics... imagine.. the people who were brutalised in Sierra Leone, getting the prosthetics using the artificial version of what the maniacs there mutilated them for!
the world may become a better place if people saw beyond the bling factor of this wonderful discovery -
ACtually i was thinking more along the lines of "weaponry" .. they mentioned powerful lasers... can you diamonds being so cheap that they are fitted into small arms capable of firing lethal lasers? ok.. a bit far fetch but why not? -
nope.. they'll be outlawed outright by the Geneva Convention...
lasers blind more than kill..
p.s. try to think more on ways to help humanity.. it's easier to destroy than to create.. and like JFK challenged the people: we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard..
do the right things.. no matter how difficult they may be...Originally posted by DriftingGuy:ACtually i was thinking more along the lines of "weaponry" .. they mentioned powerful lasers... can you diamonds being so cheap that they are fitted into small arms capable of firing lethal lasers? ok.. a bit far fetch but why not? -
I wonder if theres a chance diamond prices will plummet in the future? Maybe down to the price of sapphires.. If Apollo were to take control of the market companies like De Beers are going to take a plunge?Originally posted by the Bear:nope.. they'll be outlawed outright by the Geneva Convention...
lasers blind more than kill..
p.s. try to think more on ways to help humanity.. it's easier to destroy than to create.. and like JFK challenged the people: we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard..
do the right things.. no matter how difficult they may be... -
They also mentioned about diamonds in computers... Imaging, real-life holographic projections.. even virtual reality..all of this require insanely powerful computers... all of this might even become possible in our lifetime
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i have terrible news for you.. good sapphires are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE!
i like white sapphires.. they're almost indistinguishable from diamonds.. and almost as hard..
on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being diamond, sapphires come in at 9 -
dang.. my mineralogy or gemology sux....Originally posted by the Bear:i have terrible news for you.. good sapphires are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE!
i like white sapphires.. they're almost indistinguishable from diamonds.. and almost as hard..
on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being diamond, sapphires come in at 9
ok but I do know that topazes are definitely cheaper.. right?
anyway i was expecting rubies to be more expensive than sapphires.. i.e. a flawed ruby worth more than a flawless sapphire -
brute power.. you know what ray tracing games would be like?
that's when the computer calculates rays of light hitting surfaces and bouncing off to create a picture...
currently, some university tried to turn Halo into a ray-traced game instead of using the polygon morphing like they always do for 3D games...
they needed 30 AMD running at their peak in parallel to get it to run at playable speed...Originally posted by DriftingGuy:They also mentioned about diamonds in computers... Imaging, real-life holographic projections.. even virtual reality.. all of this might even become possible in our lifetime -
the real things are different from Maple and DiabloOriginally posted by DriftingGuy:dang.. my mineralogy or gemology sux....
ok but I do know that topazes are definitely cheaper.. right?
anyway i was expecting rubies to be more expensive than sapphires.. i.e. a flawed ruby worth more than a flawless sapphire -
I love love love opals! You can glance in one, and see the shimmery 'fire' of colours in it, and be mesmerised for a looooong time!
OK, recently, I had an encounter at the shop where I had my 2nd pair of earholes pierced. The salesgirl was trying very hard to sell me a pair of diamond earrings, which cost almost three times the cost of the pair of zircon earrings which I had chosen.
She exclaimed, "Look at how lovely the shine of the diamond is!"
I looked at my friend, my friend looked at me... we couldn't tell the difference. OK, so it sparkled. So did the zircon!
So, she placed the pair of diamond earring beside the zircon earrings. Aaaahhh... yup, the diamond ones sparkled more brilliantly. But you could only tell when you place the diamond and the zircon ones together. Apart, you really wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
So, I smiled and said, "I don't see the necessity for getting a pair of diamond earrings."
As a last-ditch attempt, she said, "All women love diamonds! Give yourself a treat!"
So, my lovely pair of zircon earrings now take pride of place above the pair of earrings in my first pierced earhole.
I refuse to be a slave to the diamond obsession... especially when Swarovski crystals and zircons and what-not now sparkle just as brilliantly, and cost just a fraction.
But hmm... all said, I think the wedding ring should still have a diamond and not the other stones. Afterall, that's the 'Mother of All Rings' that a woman owns! -
Diamond is Carbon.
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If we could efficiently turn the carbon in soot and carbon dioxide from industries and cars into diamonds that'll be even better.
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just tell the people who push diamonds...
"and how many hands of children did the maniacs in Sierra Leone need to hack off to get this diamond here?" -
Well, no wonderOriginally posted by Rhonda:I love love love opals! You can glance in one, and see the shimmery 'fire' of colours in it, and be mesmerised for a looooong time!
OK, recently, I had an encounter at the shop where I had my 2nd pair of earholes pierced. The salesgirl was trying very hard to sell me a pair of diamond earrings, which cost almost three times the cost of the pair of zircon earrings which I had chosen.
She exclaimed, "Look at how lovely the shine of the diamond is!"
I looked at my friend, my friend looked at me... we couldn't tell the difference. OK, so it sparkled. So did the zircon!
So, she placed the pair of diamond earring beside the zircon earrings. Aaaahhh... yup, the diamond ones sparkled more brilliantly. But you could only tell when you place the diamond and the zircon ones together. Apart, you really wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
So, I smiled and said, "I don't see the necessity for getting a pair of diamond earrings."
As a last-ditch attempt, she said, "All women love diamonds! Give yourself a treat!"
So, my lovely pair of zircon earrings now take pride of place above the pair of earrings in my first pierced earhole.
I refuse to be a slave to the diamond obsession... especially when Swarovski crystals and zircons and what-not now sparkle just as brilliantly, and cost just a fraction.
But hmm... all said, I think the wedding ring should still have a diamond and not the other stones. Afterall, that's the 'Mother of All Rings' that a woman owns!
She was so fussy with the wed ring -
Hmm... yeah, it is!!Originally posted by shade343:Diamond is Carbon. 
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you are basically carbon and water..
what's your pointOriginally posted by shade343:Diamond is Carbon. -
actually, i would not buy Mrs Bear a diamond ring...
diamonds have the blood of innocents on them...
i would never ever want her to have that hanging over her head... -
Em.. I thought that was already a fact when we studied chem many yrs back?Originally posted by Rhonda:Hmm... yeah, it is!! -
the "mother" of all rings won't be a mother if Apollo diamonds are able to mass market CVD diamonds..Originally posted by Rhonda:I love love love opals! You can glance in one, and see the shimmery 'fire' of colours in it, and be mesmerised for a looooong time!
OK, recently, I had an encounter at the shop where I had my 2nd pair of earholes pierced. The salesgirl was trying very hard to sell me a pair of diamond earrings, which cost almost three times the cost of the pair of zircon earrings which I had chosen.
She exclaimed, "Look at how lovely the shine of the diamond is!"
I looked at my friend, my friend looked at me... we couldn't tell the difference. OK, so it sparkled. So did the zircon!
So, she placed the pair of diamond earring beside the zircon earrings. Aaaahhh... yup, the diamond ones sparkled more brilliantly. But you could only tell when you place the diamond and the zircon ones together. Apart, you really wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
So, I smiled and said, "I don't see the necessity for getting a pair of diamond earrings."
As a last-ditch attempt, she said, "All women love diamonds! Give yourself a treat!"
So, my lovely pair of zircon earrings now take pride of place above the pair of earrings in my first pierced earhole.
I refuse to be a slave to the diamond obsession... especially when Swarovski crystals and zircons and what-not now sparkle just as brilliantly, and cost just a fraction.
But hmm... all said, I think the wedding ring should still have a diamond and not the other stones. Afterall, that's the 'Mother of All Rings' that a woman owns!
btw I read somewhere that the diamonds in rings will turn into graphite after a long period of time -
Western Australia is full of them. I have a small box full of stones containing streaks of opal of various sizes - they're what's left after the gem has been cut from the rock. I got it at no cost.Originally posted by Rhonda:I love love love opals! You can glance in one, and see the shimmery 'fire' of colours in it, and be mesmerised for a looooong time! 