Things are going to change around here
A company in Florida can now make diamonds.
I hope this means we can be rid of the third world horrors that people in diamond mines have to go through. And supposedly diamond sales support terrorism, according to Bill Maher.
Of course, the money making thing to do would not be to sell the manufactured diamonds as manufactured diamonds but merely manufacture some to sell at inflated prices, while you keep your invention a secret. Ahh, I love the smell of capitalism in the morning.
Bigwig has more.
August 13th, 2003 at 2:22 pm
I posted quite awhile back about a company that will take your cremated remains and make a diamond. GF says she would’t get much of a diamond out of my humming bird butt. I told her just add some ashes from the grill
August 12th, 2003 at 6:47 pm
An end to an evil?
Blood diamonds. Ever hear of them? Also called conflict diamonds, they are mined by children and slaves in Africa and serve as a source of funds for insurgent rebels and terrorists. Countries like Sierre Leone, Liberia and the Congo have undergone year…
August 13th, 2003 at 2:51 am
Making Diamonds
Wired has a story on the emirging methods to manufacture diamonds.