We're gonna be richer than De Beers!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11942451
QuoteA US-British team of astronomers has discovered the first planet with ultra-high concentrations of carbon.
The researchers say their discovery supports the idea there may be carbon-rich, rocky planets whose terrains are made up of diamonds or graphite.
"You might see land masses and mountains made up of diamonds," the lead researcher Dr Nikku Madhusudhan told BBC News.
If only we could get to all those diamond planets! Totally covered in diamonds! Then we would have more diamonds than chicken shit! We would ALL BE FABULOUSLY RICH!
Wouldnt that like, really screw up the market and make it really cheap?...
Obviously every competition would go bankrupt because they invested and bought them at higher prices, but the monopoly of a cheaper way to get diamonds would anyhow get the diamonds to be cheaper and more reasonable to use for more things.
Idk what the technological or scientifical uses for diamonds are other than diamond point tools, but it could promote some research i suppose?
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on December 09, 2010, 07:07:19 AM
Wouldnt that like, really screw up the market and make it really cheap?...
Um, yeah. Exactly. If there were actually some way to bring mountains of diamonds here from another planet, that is.
The diamond market is 80% memes and fairydust anyway....
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on December 09, 2010, 07:07:19 AM
Idk what the technological or scientifical uses for diamonds are other than diamond point tools, but it could promote some research i suppose?
If you replace your teeth with them it makes you rap better. FACT.
Oh you guys.
It doesn't matter about flooding the market with diamonds. Just think of the added costs for delivery.
IF I HAD A DIAMOND MOUNTAIN
YOU AND ME SHINING LIKE STARS
MANY CRYSTALLINE WHITE FOUNTAINS
A THOUSAND GHETTO CARS
Quote from: Cain on December 09, 2010, 07:47:19 AM
Oh you guys.
It doesn't matter about flooding the market with diamonds. Just think of the added costs for delivery.
This is why cain is clever. :lulz:
Aside from the fact that you could market these as "Space Diamonds" :lulz:
That sounds like it would have been a great prog rock song.
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on December 09, 2010, 07:07:19 AM
Wouldnt that like, really screw up the market and make it really cheap?...
Obviously every competition would go bankrupt because they invested and bought them at higher prices, but the monopoly of a cheaper way to get diamonds would anyhow get the diamonds to be cheaper and more reasonable to use for more things.
Idk what the technological or scientifical uses for diamonds are other than diamond point tools, but it could promote some research i suppose?
Diamonds are actually relatively abundant, they are only expensive because supply to the market is tightly controlled by De Beers. If we could travel to this planet the price would remain the same as the current market control over diamonds would ensure the supply is closely controlled.
Quote from: Sigmatic on December 09, 2010, 08:44:51 PM
That sounds like it would have been a great prog rock song.
I think David Bowie already did it.
Quote from: Persona Facade on December 09, 2010, 11:16:04 PM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on December 09, 2010, 07:07:19 AM
Wouldnt that like, really screw up the market and make it really cheap?...
Obviously every competition would go bankrupt because they invested and bought them at higher prices, but the monopoly of a cheaper way to get diamonds would anyhow get the diamonds to be cheaper and more reasonable to use for more things.
Idk what the technological or scientifical uses for diamonds are other than diamond point tools, but it could promote some research i suppose?
Diamonds are actually relatively abundant, they are only expensive because supply to the market is tightly controlled by De Beers. If we could travel to this planet the price would remain the same as the current market control over diamonds would ensure the supply is closely controlled.
I don't know who this "we" is you're talking about.
If *I* could travel to this planet and had the wherewithal to do so, I would dump (literal) tons of diamonds onto the market at bargain-basement prices, just to see what happened next.
^This.
Actually, I'd get a fall guy to do it for me, I suspect the people at DeBeers are the type to engage in revenge killings.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on December 10, 2010, 12:45:24 AM
^This.
Actually, I'd get a fall guy to do it for me, I suspect the people at DeBeers are the type to engage in revenge killings.
Preemptive orbital bombardment, use some of the diamonds to buy a clean up crew/death squad.
Jeez, usually it's me who's thinking small. You've already gone to another planet for tons of cheap diamonds. "Lock on phasers. Fire at will Mr. Worf."
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 10, 2010, 01:17:45 AM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on December 10, 2010, 12:45:24 AM
^This.
Actually, I'd get a fall guy to do it for me, I suspect the people at DeBeers are the type to engage in revenge killings.
Preemptive orbital bombardment, use some of the diamonds to buy a clean up crew/death squad.
Jeez, usually it's me who's thinking small. You've already gone to another planet for tons of cheap diamonds. "Lock on phasers. Fire at will Mr. Worf."
OMG IT'S AN ORBITAL BARRAGE...OF DIAMONDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Sir Coyote on December 10, 2010, 03:34:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 10, 2010, 01:17:45 AM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on December 10, 2010, 12:45:24 AM
^This.
Actually, I'd get a fall guy to do it for me, I suspect the people at DeBeers are the type to engage in revenge killings.
Preemptive orbital bombardment, use some of the diamonds to buy a clean up crew/death squad.
Jeez, usually it's me who's thinking small. You've already gone to another planet for tons of cheap diamonds. "Lock on phasers. Fire at will Mr. Worf."
OMG IT'S AN ORBITAL BARRAGE...OF DIAMONDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or diamond focused laser fire.
are you all out of your minds
Nigel is the only one who's even close to being on the mark here, with Cain in close second far as I can tell
if DeBeers didn't have the kind of chokehold that they have today on world gem diamond supply, diamonds would be way cheaper. It's all control of supply, and motherfucking MARKETING
I want you all to imagine me marketing goddamn SPACE DIAMONDS to the wealthiest people on Earth. Assholes will spend scads of money to have the incredible privilege of being the classiest diamond-wearer in the Rich Assholes Club.
And then, with the capital I've made by selling to the wealthiest 0.05% of the world, I'll up production and shipping from the Diamond Planet just enough to start lowering the price to something purchasable by the wealthiest 1%. This is where the cash and blowjobs really start coming in, and a whole separate industry arises around the appraisal and fapping over SPACE DIAMONDS.
Then, with all of THAT filthy lucre lining my intestines pockets, I'll up production to the level where the SPACE DIAMONDS can be sold in those advertising pages of SkyMall and similar magazines, the ones that try to sell you fancy-ass watches and sapphires for $299.99, so I can start lapping up the greasy, fatty MoneyDrippings from the upper middle classes and make WealthGravy.
Twenty years later, I use my massive capital to fund a minor media event, in which suddenly everyone becomes nostalgic for the old-fashioned Earth Diamonds... because while no one was looking, I bought up as many Earth Diamonds as I could with my incredibly deep pockets and now control the supply of THOSE diamonds as well.
Space Diamonds become passe, and the new thing becomes Retro Diamonds. A whole movement of idiots and bloggers emerges over the return to Earth Diamonds, and I will fleece everyone all over again.
Cainad,
totally not making a mockery of economics
I WANT A GIRL WITH A MIND LIKE A DIAMOND
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 10, 2010, 11:23:24 AM
I WANT A GIRL WITH A MIND LIKE A DIAMOND
Flawed and created from extreme pressure? Well, hello sailor. :wink:
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Just sayin'
Quote from: Cainad on December 10, 2010, 06:38:04 AM
are you all out of your minds
Nigel is the only one who's even close to being on the mark here, with Cain in close second far as I can tell
if DeBeers didn't have the kind of chokehold that they have today on world gem diamond supply, diamonds would be way cheaper. It's all control of supply, and motherfucking MARKETING
I want you all to imagine me marketing goddamn SPACE DIAMONDS to the wealthiest people on Earth. Assholes will spend scads of money to have the incredible privilege of being the classiest diamond-wearer in the Rich Assholes Club.
And then, with the capital I've made by selling to the wealthiest 0.05% of the world, I'll up production and shipping from the Diamond Planet just enough to start lowering the price to something purchasable by the wealthiest 1%. This is where the cash and blowjobs really start coming in, and a whole separate industry arises around the appraisal and fapping over SPACE DIAMONDS.
Then, with all of THAT filthy lucre lining my intestines pockets, I'll up production to the level where the SPACE DIAMONDS can be sold in those advertising pages of SkyMall and similar magazines, the ones that try to sell you fancy-ass watches and sapphires for $299.99, so I can start lapping up the greasy, fatty MoneyDrippings from the upper middle classes and make WealthGravy.
Twenty years later, I use my massive capital to fund a minor media event, in which suddenly everyone becomes nostalgic for the old-fashioned Earth Diamonds... because while no one was looking, I bought up as many Earth Diamonds as I could with my incredibly deep pockets and now control the supply of THOSE diamonds as well.
Space Diamonds become passe, and the new thing becomes Retro Diamonds. A whole movement of idiots and bloggers emerges over the return to Earth Diamonds, and I will fleece everyone all over again.
Cainad,
totally not making a mockery of economics
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Gems? Gems are truly outrageous. They are truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Quote from: Persona Facade on December 12, 2010, 10:00:17 AM
Gems? Gems are truly outrageous. They are truly, truly, truly outrageous.
:| Try harder.
Quote from: Persona Facade on December 12, 2010, 10:00:17 AM
Gems? Gems are truly outrageous. They are truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Have you seen the price of potato gems lately!? It's criminal!
Quote from: TGB on December 12, 2010, 10:22:39 AM
Quote from: Persona Facade on December 12, 2010, 10:00:17 AM
Gems? Gems are truly outrageous. They are truly, truly, truly outrageous.
:| Try harder.
It's sad, but you and I may be the only ones who got that so far. :lulz:
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 10, 2010, 11:23:24 AM
I WANT A GIRL WITH A MIND LIKE A DIAMOND
completely transparent and fingered by old women?
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 10, 2010, 11:23:24 AM
I WANT A GIRL WITH A MIND LIKE A DIAMOND
cold and lifeless?
Quote from: Faust on December 12, 2010, 04:43:04 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 10, 2010, 11:23:24 AM
I WANT A GIRL WITH A MIND LIKE A DIAMOND
completely transparent and fingered by old women?
Only able to be cut by other similar minds of equal or greater grade.