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    Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them

    Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions

    The USB Thumb Drive Bracelet: Pure Class, Baby

    Artificial Diamonds Still Forever, Just Now Sparklier and Defect-Free
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    Someone gaffito-tagged your ice, baby.
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    Image of Worf Worf
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    Yeah, diamonds are actually quite plentiful, and the resale market being worth zip is correct.


    The only reason people pay so much for diamonds is because of DeBeers... if you want a case study on a global monopoly, there you go.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/25/09

    @Worf:
    It's not the diamonds that they have a global monopoly on. It's the people who are qualified to shape them. Or at least that's the way I hear it. Having a diamond mine is damn near worthless in terms of the jewelry market if you can't get it cut right.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    Sweet! Now we can get a photo of grandma on the diamond we had made from her ashes!


    [www.lifegem.com]

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/25/09

    @Barry99705:
    Actually...I was thinking that it actually made a certain amount of sense for that. That way you can keep track of who got turned into which diamond.
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    Image of wkm001 wkm001
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    If you want to ruin the resale value on a diamond, just try to sell it. It is so sad to find out what a ring is really worth.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @wkm001: And even more sad is what people will BUY that ring for after you sell it so cheap, and a store marks it "vintage".
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    I personally am waiting for them to perfect the 2+ carat synthetic diamond. The future Mrs. GitEmSteveDave has a ~2 carat marquise in a Ti setting in exchange for agreeing to put up with my stupid ass.
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    Image of henhen henhen
    03/25/09

    @Porntipsguzzardo_GitEmSteveDav...:


    is it me or is this the second time ive seen you displaying your diamond ring thing? either you have the ring and no one cares...or you dont have the ring and no one cares. (or you have the ring after she threw it back in your face....thats why you keep bringing it up).


    anyway it is a nice design...i admit

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @shalegac: I paid ~$65 for my Abyss replica. I think these are more expensive as they are tension rings and that takes a little more work.


    @henhen: Yeah, 2nd time I probably have brought it up. Great company either way. No, I don't have the ring and also currently no one cares about me as well. I fell in love with the design though, and really do hope they get the 2+ carat man made diamonds perfected. Last I checked 2 was the limit, and I don't think they were shaped to make a marquise.

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    Image of peter_kelowna peter_kelowna
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    A company in Canada has been laser etching serial numbers into diamonds for years (along with an image of a polar bear). Yep.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @peter_kelowna: MANY companies etch serial numbers into diamonds. The ones with the polar bear are probably from a specific mine. Candia diamonds have a maple leaf.
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    Image of Mac the Tard Mac the Tard
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    & don't forget the fact that Diamonds are not special or valuable.

    Diamonds Have No Actual Value!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @pabst: They don't? Not even in blood? I only purchase diamonds from areas of strife.
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    Image of Adam Reineke Adam Reineke
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    They say the only way you can see the etching it is with their viewer (invisible to the naked eye) and that they can remove it without hurting the diamond. I call shenanigans.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @Adam Reineke: We have a call of Shenanigans! Everyone get your brooms while we investigate the claim from a dubious source.
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    Image of LazyPanda LazyPanda
    03/25/09

    In reply to Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
    By the time you're ready to throw this on the resale market synthetic diamonds will push the price almost all stones to near zero anyway.


    I'm just waiting for the day I can get my ugly mug etched on a 10 pounder.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/25/09

    @LazyPanda: I don't know about those synthetic diamonds. People pay a premium to get "certified" natural diamonds. Sure, those certificates are written with the blood of child laborers, but it's a small price.
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    Image of Nutchromeo Nutchromeo
    02/18/09

    In reply to Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions
    Lonsdalite is a girl's best friend just didn't have the same ring to it...
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    Image of HonusWScruggs HonusWScruggs
    02/17/09

    In reply to Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions
    Still not a strong as Dolomite; the tough black mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about. It's Dolomite, baby!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    02/17/09

    @HonusWScruggs:

    Diamond's? Shiii-it. Ain't got no class!

    I squeeze diamonds out my muthafu***in' ass!


    Dolemite is the true rock's name.

    And fuckin' up muthaf***ers is its game!

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    02/17/09

    In reply to Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions
    Lonsdaleite. That will shut her up...for an even longer while.
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    Image of Ellomdian Ellomdian
    02/17/09

    In reply to Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions
    Copying, word for word, the entire text of the Discovery article = Bad editor!
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    02/17/09

    @Ellomdian: NOOO!! He left out the 'B' in the second paragraph.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/17/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: More than that. He left off the entire blockquote tags.
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    Image of balls187 balls187
    02/17/09

    In reply to Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions
    Waiting for the next Kanye West album to go double Wurtzite.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @balls187: That's the one that will feature him nailed to the cross with platinum nails, a crown of diamond thorns around his head, with him screaming into a vocoder over stolen recordings of monks chanting about how he's crucified every day in his life like Jesus because people keep denying him awards right?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @Lite: is dining in hell tonight.: Oh wait, that was his cover on Rolling Stone.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    02/17/09

    @Lite: is dining in hell tonight: Sounds about right. People underestimate Kanye's humility. While Lennon claimed to be bigger than Jesus with the potential of being treated like Jesus, and Jay-Z claims to be the J-HOVA, Kanye just claims to be persecuted like Jesus. He's such a nice young man that way.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Now, even in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff...Jesus didn't throw tantrums like that. Now, he did like to play a game with this brother where his brother would squash a lizard, and Jesus would bring the lizard back to life by sticking it in his mouth... But no known documented tantrums like Kanye.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    02/17/09

    @Lite: I never said he handled it with the same amount of equanimity. Kanye is really more of a Brian-like figure that way.
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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Good point.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    In reply to Materials Harder Than Diamond Formed In Asteroid Impacts and Volcanic Eruptions
    So, what's the name of the mineral formed when Bruce Willis nukes an asteroid to keep it from striking the earth?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/17/09

    @Lite: is dining in hell tonight.: The real Bruce Willis would have left Ben Affleck on that asteroid so he could never star in Pearl Harbor. Oh god...
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    Image of jackfrost132 is disruntled enough to stab an air jackfrost132 is disruntled enough to stab an air
    02/17/09

    @Lite: is dining in hell tonight.: Brucetanium, it will take down an entire office building... Shoes optional.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/17/09

    @jackfrost132: Yippekiyaynium I'm guessing.
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