[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[JohannaK]

But you were not in the surveyed sample.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Spoiler :

 

[JohannaK]

I am willing to concede that those eyes are pretty awesome. I would support pink-hairette if you went with that spoilered image.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I'll think about it

 

[CavLancer]

What's to think about? Its blatantly obvious that the spoiled image is preferable.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't agree, but anyway

 

[Cutlass]

 

[CavLancer]

Really makes one think. I'm thinking now. Think I'll have some fruit salad.

 

[Mise]

All the diamonds in the world could fit into a double decker bus.

 

[Lohrenswald]

does it refer to like the pure element gold or?

 

[JohannaK]

Diamonds are only expensive because the De Beers monopoly.

 

[Mise]

Yeah and also the fact there's only a double decker bus' worth of them in existence.

 

[Arakhor]

You can synthesise them, of course, but that's of no interest to jewellers.

 

[Mise]

Yes, because synthetic diamonds are nowhere near the kind of quality required for jewellery. Gem-quality synthetic diamonds are incredibly expensive to produce right now, and are simply not economically viable at market prices.

It requires an extraordinary amount of energy to produce diamonds artificially, and controlling the process is incredibly difficult. To produce crystals as perfect as natural diamonds requires processes that are, right now, not economically viable.

 

[Cutlass]

does it refer to like the pure element gold or?

 

[Lohrenswald]

cause I'm pretty sure most things made of gold actually have some sort of gold alloy

 

[Cutlass]

Yeah, that's the volume of pure gold. But most of the things which actually use gold are using alloys or plating. And gold plating is super thin.

 

[Kyriakos]

As first proven in Syracuse

 

[hobbsyoyo]

All the diamonds in the world could fit into a double decker bus.

Does that include industrial-grade diamonds? I thought those were plentiful.

 

[Mise]

It's plentiful, sure, in the sense that there is no shortage of it for industrial use. But industrial diamonds are tiny. It's basically dust. It's not recognisably diamond from sight alone; however, of course, the material properties of diamond are the same, which is what matters for industrial use.