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From: Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:14:33 -0400
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In article <v8cjsm$j8ps$1@solani.org>, alien@comet.invalid says...
> 
> >On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:46:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
> >> https://www.space.com/mercury-diamond-layer-10-miles-thick-nasa-messenger#main
> >>
> >>Now there is an incentive to go!
> >
> >Diamond, like gold, is valuable because it's rare. Accessing cubic
> >miles of diamonds would trash its value.
> >
> 
> 

Diamonds are only valuable because of the De Beers convincing the women 
they need them.  Almost all diamonds used to go through them and they 
would only let a few out and if you tried your own mine and a store 
bought some from you the De Beers would cut them off.

They are like paint.  Anyone can get paint and put it on a canvas but if 
you have the big name you get thousands or millions for the painting.
Diamonds can be cut and put into jewelry as an art form.