World's 8 richest match wealth of bottom half of global population, Oxfam says

[Overnight]

vanz, why are you reading those English tabloid rags, The Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror? You a Brit? Lol, read The Guardian, now THERE's real news. ;-)

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

Probably millions of planets that have more valuable resources, there are supposedly planets made almost entirely out of diamond not too far from us.

I have heard about that planet...it is suppose to be blue, rain diamonds and have 400 mph winds. Sounds like a harsh environment.

But we don't have to leave the solar system.


Giant diamonds, big enough to be worn by Hollywood stars, could be raining down on Saturn and Jupiter, US scientists have calculated.

Experts from the US say new information about the atmosphere on the two planets, suggests that chemical reactions in certain weather conditions could result in thousands of tonnes of diamonds being created every year.

They think lightning storms turn methane gas into soot which, as it falls, hardens into chunks of graphite and then become diamonds.

Liquid sea
These diamond "hail stones" eventually melt into a liquid sea in the planets' hot cores.

Nasa scientist Dr Kevin Baines said the biggest diamonds would likely be about a centimetre in diameter - "big enough to put on a ring, although of course they would be uncut."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24525190

 

[Michael J. Fletcher]

Income inequality is a huge problem, but this is not the case. These men earned their cash fair and square.

 

[Michael J. Fletcher]

Hold on now... the Daily Mail says it'll collapse the world's economies LMAO...
gotta love the Brits. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4128582/Nasa-plans-explore-expensive-asteroid.html

Daily Mail is one of the worst newspapers in the U.K.

 

[newwurldmn]

If that is true and we could get there and mine it, then the value of earth diamonds would plummet, because now, with a planet-sized diamond to mine, instead of diamonds being really rare it would become as common as sand.

Diamonds aren't valuable now. It's a monopoly that controls the supply created a market that got women thinking your value is defined by the size of an engagement ring.

 

[Cuddles]

i mean synthetic diamonds could plummet the jewel's price. You just gotta convince your broad that it's better than some African kid digging them up.

 

[vanzandt]

Diamonds aren't valuable now. It's a monopoly that controls the supply created a market that got women thinking your value is defined by the size of an engagement ring.

lol

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

i mean synthetic diamonds could plummet the jewel's price. You just gotta convince your broad that it's better than some African kid digging them up.

Supposedly, the Russians can create synthetic diamonds that cannot be distinguished from the real ones.

I think I recall that they microscopically emboss the manufacturer's name inside the diamond to prevent fraud.

 

[DallasCowboysFan]

lol

I heard about this magazine cover this weekend. It's from 2011?

It's a cheap shot from an anti Trump crowd.

 

[Cuddles]

Supposedly, the Russians can create synthetic diamonds that cannot be distinguished from the real ones.

I think I recall that they microscopically emboss the manufacturer's name inside the diamond to prevent fraud.

There's an American company that makes them too. They add a yellow tint to make them recognizable I think. You can send them your loved one's ashes or anything carbon based really and they'll put it in some explosive chamber to make them.

https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit

Honestly; you're better off picking up a ring at a pawnshop, keeping the metal and setting the stone on a new band if she insists in a new ring.