Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds

On a sunny day (Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:14:33 -0400) it happened Ralph Mowery
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In article <v8cjsm$j8ps$1@solani.org>, alien@comet.invalid says...

 

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:46:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
https://www.space.com/mercury-diamond-layer-10-miles-thick-nasa-messenger#main
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Now there is an incentive to go!

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Diamond, like gold, is valuable because it's rare. Accessing cubic
miles of diamonds would trash its value.
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Diamonds are only valuable because of the De Beers convincing the women
they need them.  Almost all diamonds used to go through them and they
would only let a few out and if you tried your own mine and a store
bought some from you the De Beers would cut them off.
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They are like paint.  Anyone can get paint and put it on a canvas but if
you have the big name you get thousands or millions for the painting.
Diamonds can be cut and put into jewelry as an art form.

Yea, I would never even want a Rembrandt or Monalisa ...
I once had a Polaroid instant camera, paper pictures!

Now you need an expensive color printer and ink to hang your picture on the wall..
Oh well I have a Kodak electronic picture frame...
Shows sequence of sky views and stellar stuff, other fun things, runs all day..
been working fine for decennia.. Not very big..