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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: diamond making machine for 200,000 dollars on alibaba
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:59:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:48:57 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> On a sunny day (Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:21:09 -0000 (UTC)) it happened
> Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in
> <vbrquk$3huor$2@dont-email.me>:
> 
>>On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:36:05 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>
>>> Diamond making machine for 200,000 dollars on alibaba:
>>>  https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/you-can-buy-a-diamond-making-
>>machine-for-200000-on-alibaba/
>>> 
>>> Now there is a profit opportunity:-)
>>
>>It's amazing there's still a market for diamonds at all now this is
>>possible.
> 
> Old record players used diamond needles, I have read vinyl is 'in' again
> these days Audiophiles will pay big money for superior sound.

They had no choice. That was back in the days when natural diamonds were 
the only game in town, De Beers controlled the price of these gems and 
only Superman could make them artificially (from lumps of coal IIRC).