internet_points 3 days ago

The nice thing about making diamonds as opposed to coal or bio-oil is that it's quite hard to burn the diamond, so less chance of someone getting tempted into using these enormous reserves that are just sitting there, depreciating, to fuel the helicopter of their bitcoin-mining luxury cruise ship or create an ultra-fast pizza delivery service using rocket launchers

SketchySeaBeast 4 days ago

Can you imagine the extraterrestrial archaeologist trying to explain that?

  • bluGill 4 days ago

    No - stupid slow speed of light stops so many interesting science fiction imaginations.

    • lupusreal 3 days ago

      It's true that the speed of light prevents it from actually happening, but you should still be able to imagine it.