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February 17th, 2004, 12:35 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
there are no references.
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February 17th, 2004, 12:41 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
Of course not! How can you push a political agenda if you cite references?  |
February 17th, 2004, 12:46 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
simpe! misqoute! 
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February 17th, 2004, 01:34 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
Ok so will NASA or the chinesse get their first - NASA has budget cutbacks but the chinesse are doing it on a shoe string budget - have already put a man into space and unmanned and robotic probes to the moon and also a moon base.
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February 17th, 2004, 02:34 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
umm, the main point is that it is 50 light years away. Thats a long way from Kansas friends.
The point about flooding the market is valid, but lets take Nickle Iron asteroids, I have seen figures that boggle the mind on the current market values. If one was get one of them and able to mine/refine it in space, I could see huge benefit's, that would be good for Earth, at least we wouldnt need to mine the Earth anymore. Then someone would be blamed taking job off of Earth...never ending cycle.
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February 17th, 2004, 02:46 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
You know asteroid mining would give us access to new resources - which will run out one day here on earth. So i guess a push towards required spaecflight technology isnt such a bad idea for us humasn to start doing now.
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February 17th, 2004, 04:27 AM
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Re: OT: diamonds are forever :)
I saw that story before, and what I don't get is how they know it's all diamond. I thought, thermodynamically, the most stable crystaline form of carbon was graphite. So what shape is this core in, a round sphere of bort, a mass of black graphite with diamond in it, or what?
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