Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: amused

Oh Look, It's Dymondine

Locally known as Q-carbon.

Things like this?  Are why I stopped believing that anything is 100% guaranteed imaginary.  I keep finding  them later.
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arielstarshadow

arielstarshadow

December 4 2015, 15:11:47 UTC 5 years ago

If these are really as brilliant as "normal" diamonds, they could be another alternative to the ethical dilemma involved in buying diamonds these days.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

December 5 2015, 05:14:45 UTC 5 years ago

I'm not terribly interested in diamonds. They just aren't as pretty to me as colored stones. I love opals and iolite, for instance. But I am quite intrigued by these new stones. I should like to see if they look shinier to me. Given their description, I suspect this is true. Especially after I've put one on.
fayanora

Re: Yes...

fayanora

December 5 2015, 09:21:56 UTC 5 years ago

Me neither, for the same reasons. Then I found out that diamonds magnify energy (like empathic energy), whether positive or negative. Diamond rings for marriages are thus a VERY bad idea. You start fighting, the diamond is going to make things so much worse.
johnpalmer

johnpalmer

December 5 2015, 21:46:09 UTC 5 years ago

I've actually heard it said that it's possible to make artificial diamonds more economically than finding them loose. True? Not true? "Will be true in a few years"? I don't know. But they were talking about how diamond folks were marking stones as "known to be mined" with tiny imprints.

From my perspective, "it's a shiny rock!" makes me think "You mean this shiny rock was made using industrial processes? *COOL*! Before, people had to do a lot of work, often in slave-conditions! This is *far* more valuable to me, knowing that no one was enslaved to bring it to me."

Of course, the flip side of that is, if diamond mining is a valuable industry, then it is *possible* for a country to lift its citizenry out of poverty by selling diamonds. It doesn't happen - but if diamond mining becomes pointless because artificial is actually better, that's another industry where a country can't get its citizens out of poverty. Agriculture is already severely damaged - it used to be 30% of the US did some labor on farms/food production. Now I think it's like 3%. Which means 27% of the population is free to do other stuff, but what if that "other stuff" starts seeing similar compression? We're at a precipice, where capitalism is about to become far more dangerous.

(Um. Capitalism, in the sense of "capital should earn the majority of money" - not in the sense of "private property, free market where sensible". That can go from capitalist to pretty-damn-socialist.)