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* The Man Who Sold MercuryQuadibloc
+* Re: The Man Who Sold MercuryJ. Clarke
|`- Re: The Man Who Sold MercuryNinapenda Jibini
`- Re: The Man Who Sold MercuryDavid Johnston

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 by: Quadibloc - Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:26 UTC

In case you missed this recent news story:

https://interestingengineering.com/the-surface-of-mercury-is-covered-in-diamonds

However, they're just tiny industrial quality diamonds, not gem quality, so the
situation is not really the same as what Heinlein imagined for the Moon.
Still, this shows Heinlein was not engaging in quite as wild a flight of fancy
as I thought.

John Savard

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 by: J. Clarke - Mon, 21 Mar 2022 05:27 UTC

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:26:00 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
<jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>In case you missed this recent news story:
>
>https://interestingengineering.com/the-surface-of-mercury-is-covered-in-diamonds
>
>However, they're just tiny industrial quality diamonds, not gem quality, so the
>situation is not really the same as what Heinlein imagined for the Moon.
>Still, this shows Heinlein was not engaging in quite as wild a flight of fancy
>as I thought.

This would have been more exciting news back when diamonds were hard
to come by.

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 by: Ninapenda Jibini - Mon, 21 Mar 2022 05:55 UTC

J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:26:00 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
> <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>>In case you missed this recent news story:
>>
>>https://interestingengineering.com/the-surface-of-mercury-is-cove
>>red-in-diamonds
>>
>>However, they're just tiny industrial quality diamonds, not gem
>>quality, so the situation is not really the same as what
>>Heinlein imagined for the Moon. Still, this shows Heinlein was
>>not engaging in quite as wild a flight of fancy as I thought.
>
> This would have been more exciting news back when diamonds were
> hard to come by.
>
Diamonds were never hard to come by. Only expensive due to an illegal
monopoly and market manipulation. They've *always* been fairly
common. That's what broke the monopoly - they became so common
DeBeers *couldn't* buy up all the available stock to control prices.

--
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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 by: David Johnston - Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:12 UTC

On 2022-03-20 9:26 p.m., Quadibloc wrote:
> In case you missed this recent news story:
>
> https://interestingengineering.com/the-surface-of-mercury-is-covered-in-diamonds
>
> However, they're just tiny industrial quality diamonds, not gem quality, so the
> situation is not really the same as what Heinlein imagined for the Moon.
> Still, this shows Heinlein was not engaging in quite as wild a flight of fancy
> as I thought.
>
> John Savard

The wild flight of fancy was overlooking the impact of transportation
costs which would mean that diamond, no matter how plentiful would not
be competitive with the domestic product for a very long time.

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