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Which billionaire is going to spend money on this rather than spending it on helping humanity?
If the money eventually gets to the people of Botswana then it could help them. Feels like a long shot though.
When was the last time a transaction involving a giant precious jewel benefited regular people?
Yeah, somebody in Botswana will benefit; somebody corrupt. Pennies on the dollar will trickle down, if it goes the way it normally does.
Maybe the diamond magnate will hire locals to build statues in his honour!
Jewelry stores get robbed sometimes lol
Look ma, a rock....
Please, I'd rather have man made stones as they are cheaper and require no slave labour
require no slave labour
Apparently this was mined in a Canadian-run "ethical diamond" mine with modern worker conditions, environment protections, and safety regulations. I was kinda surprised.
It was located using X-ray technology designed to find large, high-value diamonds.
Sounds like they're using tech at this mine.
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I just want to know what genius named carats and karats ostensibly the same thing, especially when both are related to jewellery, but one means purity and the other is just a measure of weight
It’s intentional to sow confusion. That way you just defer to the nice, good-looking sales person at your local jewelry store to tell you what is valuable and don’t question the cartel pricing and artificial scarcity.
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There's worse: 1 Calorie = 1000 calorie
Isn't that some American BS? Every non American food I've had was measured in Kilocalories
I'm from France. Food packaging uses kcal but I've seen articles about diets and stuff use Cal.
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Some poor person probably got paid the whipping sum of $20 for finding that thing
I doubt the poor person in question was running a high-tech X-ray diamond finder.
I wonder what percentage of people at least skim the story before forming an opinion.
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That is a cartoonishly large diamond. Cut it into that stereotypical cartoon diamond shape!
It belongs in a museum!
Some billionaire is probably gonna turn it into a door handle, unfortunately
Still better than cutting it into a large set of boring-ass baubles IMO.
Meanwhile the largest uncut synthetic diamond weights 150.42 carats (30.084 grams).
That's big enough for pretty much any usecase
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Good lord. I wonder what kind of saw that put that on
Oh that's mine I dropped it
DO NOT BUY this when it's new! It's gonna be 1/10th the price when it gets pawned.
Oh… okay!
Someone once described diamonds as nothing but space poop & it’s all I think about when I see ppl w diamond jewelry 😂💍💩☄️
I kind of think they should leave it like that.
They likely will! If touched it is then “cut” and less value. The raw “uncut” version is what will sell.
They said the 1905 one was cut into multiple gems?! Seems such a waste.
Eventually it’s how things go… basically dividing the wealth but ultimately we’re talking about bullshit carbon and shouldn’t be so concerned. Yet…
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And then the buyer will probably cut it into whatever number and carat of individual gems will sell for the most - or so I understand.
That's a Chaos Emerald. Botswana is about to get all of its fauna robotized.
Something something toast of Botswana.
Although infertile, the hybrid had a very active libido, mounting both ewes and nannies even when they were not in heat. This earned the hybrid the name Bemya or rapist. He was castrated when he was 10 months old because he was becoming a nuisance.
Welp
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Makes me want to watch 'Blood Diamond' again.
Nice precious rock the Botswanans found! I'm sure it would be preserved as it is, or if it's sold, that it would greatly benifit Botswana's economy
/s :(
Cool, I can burn it to ash with the tools in my garage.
Diamonds are shiny/glittery and hard, that's about it.
And thermally conductive, and low-friction, and semiconducting. They are pretty neat, just for different reasons than people think.
Also, it wouldn't leave ash, because it's totally pure carbon, but that's just a nitpick.
Well, I could have gone into detail about their scientific and industrial value, but those aren't what massively inflates their perceived importance and price.
Neat.
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