Neptune and Uranus may have diamond oceans

[Turbinator]

One thing that I really do not understand is how diamonds from nature continue to be valuable or important when you can now create 100% perfect diamonds with machines. At a very low cost, a lot lower than mining or buying.

[Ghostrider]

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Originally Posted by JamesG

 Since "we" are the only life we know. It is our baseline and what we will inevitably compare other life to.

Inevitable SF quote:

... Such repulsive creatures they were, with only two arms and two legs, ghastly white skins and no scales.

[tblaxland]

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Originally Posted by Turbinator

 One thing that I really do not understand is how diamonds from nature continue to be valuable or important when you can now create 100% perfect diamonds with machines. At a very low cost, a lot lower than mining or buying.

"100% perfect" is in the eye of the beholder. For many, especially those interested in fashion, the origin is as important as the final product.

[T.Neo]

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Why not? It worked for James Cameron. lol!

It may seem workable for the average moviegoer, but anyone with knowledge of how evolution works will instantly recognise the Na'vi as highly implausible.

The other creatures in the film, notably the flying creatures, were pretty good though.

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Since "we" are the only life we know. It is our baseline and what we will inevitably compare other life to.

That is a very valid point, but IMO if we ever want to understand the universe, we have to set aside our Earth-centric views and explore every possibility.

My case in point: Early reconstructions of dinosaurs that based them upon iguanas and monitor lizards...

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ghastly white skins

*ahem*...

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"100% perfect" is in the eye of the beholder.

What she doesn't know can't hurt her.

[Andy44]

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Originally Posted by Turbinator

 One thing that I really do not understand is how diamonds from nature continue to be valuable or important when you can now create 100% perfect diamonds with machines. At a very low cost, a lot lower than mining or buying.

It's marketing by deBeers. Seriously. Natural diamonds aren't even rare. They are just a cornered market. And deBeers made a bunch of commercials convincing women that if you don't buy them an expensive natural diamond it means you don't really love them.

And as long as women believe that, gentlemen, we must pay!

[T.Neo]

Buy Cubic Zirconia and hope she isn't an amateur gemologist.

[vonneuman]

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Originally Posted by T.Neo

 Buy Cubic Zirconia and hope she isn't an amateur gemologist.

[Ghostrider]

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Originally Posted by T.Neo

 *ahem*...

Hey, don't blame me. Fredric Brown wrote it.

[T.Neo]

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Hey, don't blame me. Fredric Brown wrote it.

As a pale-skinned person I am most offended!

[Ghostrider]

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Originally Posted by T.Neo

 As a pale-skinned person I am most offended!

Not as a scale-less person? Anyway, you can't be paler than me. I'm almost at the glow-in-the-dark stage of paleness.

[vonneuman]

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Originally Posted by Ghostrider

 ..... I'm almost at the glow-in-the-dark stage of paleness.

That is usually nuklear waste related.

[T.Neo]

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I'm almost at the glow-in-the-dark stage of paleness.

Get some sun.

[cjp]

Am I the only one who goes on 'liquid diamond'?

I thought diamond is a solid phase of carbon. How would liquid diamond be different from liquid graphite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...se_diagram.png

[T.Neo]

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Am I the only one who goes on 'liquid diamond'?

I actually had that thought too. But I was too busy trying to dispel nonsense about liquid hydrogen beings...

[Ghostrider]

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Originally Posted by T.Neo

 Get some sun.

Are you out of your mind? I should travel some 150'000'000 km to a darn G2 star and take a sample with a magnetic bottle only to improve on cosmetics? Not even Max Factor would go to that lengths.