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

On 1/08/2024 4:14 am, Ralph Mowery wrote:

In article <v8cjsm$j8ps$1@solani.org>, alien@comet.invalid says...

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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.

 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.
 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.

Somebody hasn't heard of industrial diamonds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
"Eighty percent of mined diamonds (equal to about 135,000,000 carats (27,000 kg) annually) are unsuitable for use as gemstones and are used industrially. In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s; in 2014, 4,500,000,000 carats (900,000 kg) of synthetic diamonds were produced, 90% of which were produced in China. Approximately 90% of diamond grinding grit is currently of synthetic origin."
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