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Diamonds coming out of a mine is of course no surprise. But let’s look closer at these “diamonds”. It’s said that diamonds are like snowflakes as each one’s mi
by zaroth 6y ago
Diamonds coming out of a mine is of course no surprise. But let’s look closer at these “diamonds”.
It’s said that diamonds are like snowflakes as each one’s minute imperfections make it absolutely unique.
So in this case we have a diamond mine pumping out “natural” diamonds but turns out they all have a very specific structure which exactly matches a manual published a few years earlier on making lab created diamonds which are almost indistinguishable from natural ones.
It might lead you to suspect that the diamond mine in fact provides the perfect cover story to ship as many lab-made diamonds as you want and sell them with the natural diamond markup.
I have no way to gauge for myself how definitive these genetic abnormalities are, but if they’ve found published research painting a trail directly toward these specific unique and highly unusual sequences which are also specifically responsible for the extremely contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2, then I think at least we are beyond the simple fallacy of believing “mines make diamonds”.