Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper

Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by kirykl on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:07PM (#21530776)

>Diamonds cannot be resold, the money may as well have been burned

I wonder how much money you'd have to actually burn to extract enough carbon to create a decently sized diamond from it

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Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by ncmncm on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:42PM (#21531542)

Nothing like what they cost.

Paper is, what, 44-50% carbon by weight? Imagine a ring with the weight of even a small stack of bills.

It wasn't long ago that the paper was worth more than the rock.

But if you burn it, you lose the carbon. Char it instead.

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Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by smegger001 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:14AM (#21533196)

Paper was valuable enough at one point it was considered the traditional gift for first anniversaries in the U.S.

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Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by dan-robertson on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:37AM (#21534365)

I think the reason that it is the first anniversary gift is that it was not considered valuable (unlike eg silver/gold/ruby/diamond/...)

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Re:Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper by ncmncm on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:14AM (#21535465)

We used to joke that the 19th anniversary gift theme was packing peanuts.

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