Posted on 01/17/2010 3:44:54 AM PST by LibWhacker
Which is why I refuse to ever buy another diamond.
People should use common sense. Go to any mall and there are jewelry stores all over selling diamonds but yet they are supposed to be "rare".
I often expect good humorous comments from FR. But yours is one of the best in several years.
Listen to a group of Astrophysicists some time try to explain the unified theory. They are constantly making up the existence of particles they "think" exist to match the equations they come up with to explain the origins of the Universe, all the while acting as if these particles actually exist and have been observed. For anyone with an engineering background, it's downright comical.
You’re right, once it melts it loses its crystal structure and becomes just a bunch of carbon atoms doing whatever. I’m guessing it’s considered liquid diamond because of the pressure they’re melting it at, which causes it to form diamond again when it cools rather than disorganized carbon.
Are you in the business of manufacturing Twinkies by chance?
I used to work at U.S. Steel. We had graphite up to six inches thick covering everything in the BOP shop. It played havoc with the resistor banks on the cranes.
It’d be cool to go back there and take a couple of shovelfuls of graphite, toss it into your basic super-duper high pressure oven, and turn the graphite into a thousand caret diamond. Frustrating! We know how to do it. It’s just the technology getting in our way.
Who said anything about manufacturing, Twinkie?
Soooooo, lets all just jump into our George Jetson Mobiles and fly up, over, around there and just grab a handfull for the glovebox.
Oh yea, George Jetson Mobiles haven’t been invented yet and if anyone here thinks this government is going to fund any kind of new space technology soon has truely got their heads in some other place not of this planet. They are already doing everything they can to cut the Constellation Project which was originated to replace the Shuttle Program.
They are talking 11 million atmospheres and 50,000 degrees (C or F?).
My tire guage and outside temperature guage don't hold up under these conditions.
But it looks as if the scientists here could use some proxies and come up with 'value added' temperatures and pressures.
It worked for Jones.
Yeah...and they got flying pigs also.
Has DeBeers purchased the rights yet?
Yes, but these physicists are relatively harmless, and they at least follow the Theory > Hypothesis > Conclusion > Revised Theory flowchart.
The AGW 'priests' come up with a theory from incomplete or flawed observation; make little-to-no effort to create testable hypotheses; and yet 'demand' immediate reorganization of human civilization.
Yeah, they have their own boondoggles, like the 54 mile, $12 billion hole in the ground we paid for in Texas that Congress canceled in 1993, aka, the Superconducting Super Collider. There are many other examples. They just don't get as much press as AGW. Plenty of waste to go around, all in the name of "science".....
I would lay that boondoggle at the feet of Congress. The competing facility in CERN Switzerland has made significant scientific contributions — discoveries that would have been made in Texas if not for the cancellation.
Really? Like what? Last I heard they were having trouble with it tripping breakers every time they try to bring it to full power. I have not heard of any significant new discoveries coming from the Swiss LHC yet. Doesn't mean that there haven't been any, I just haven't heard about it. Maybe I missed something. What did they find?
Well, Twinkies immediately jumped to mind when you mentioned your line of work relied on science. Twinkies are as much a technology as a food, packed as they are with synthetic compounds that only scientists understand.
DeBeers will be building a Death Star to take care of this problem.
Y'know what? You're right. They haven't really done any experiments beyond power-level tests with the LHC. They've had problems with the equipment & their website says that they are shutting down in 2010 for a systems upgrade.
Have to apologize to you & eat a little crow here. I thought I saw/heard something on the News a few weeks ago about the LHC at Cern. One of those stories that blows past you when your attention is divided. Could have been one of those year-end, filler-stories (as in "not really News)?
>:0)
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