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From: John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA
 spacecraft finds
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:16:10 -0700
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On 2024/07/30 8:38 a.m., Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024/07/30 3:46 a.m., Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>> Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds
>>> https://www.space.com/mercury-diamond-layer-10-miles-thick-nasa-messenge
>>> r#main
>>>
>>> Now there is an incentive to go!
>>
>> By the time we can mine Mercury, we will be able to make diamonds as
>> cheap as water anyway.
> 
> You think the price of water will have gone up by that much?
> 

Hey! Be nice to me, I sell the jukeboxes that take your records!

(ducking)

Energy available to the human race seems to be growing around 
2.3%/annum, hence insanely cheap diamonds at some point in the future. 
They will make a nice durable sandpaper!

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/


John ;-#)#
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