Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Robertson Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Marcury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:16:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1qxiouy.db6jvkqvxtqcN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Reply-To: spam@flippers.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:16:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3b701d1ad735d7a3a566f9513fedf0f5"; logging-data="1294713"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lkTXOAHMvjPH5wQscl7XkQXuF3CVcX6s=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:waqKSWXQo/ujaNkSyqeVfZmryvE= Content-Language: en-US, en-CA In-Reply-To: <1qxiouy.db6jvkqvxtqcN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Bytes: 2441 On 2024/07/30 8:38 a.m., Liz Tuddenham wrote: > John Robertson 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 ;-#)# -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the USENET newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. #7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3 (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."