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- Thu May 02, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Latest News
- Topic: Cartier Honors $13,000 Online Price Mistake
- Replies: 1
- Views: 31
Re: Cartier Honors $13,000 Online Price Mistake
"a symbol of theft or a reminder of shame,” Elitist much? There was NO theft. There is no shame unless its is between that X users own ears for what I'd say was jealousy, not an understanding of advertising law. Id say Villarreal showed intense virtue and jumped on a deal. He can be proud of hi...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:37 am
- Forum: Gemstones
- Topic: Piece of the Week: Jacquie Aiche’s Starry Galaxy Necklace
- Replies: 1
- Views: 32
Re: Piece of the Week: Jacquie Aiche’s Starry Galaxy Necklace
That gave an idea for the tiny Ethiopian shaped nodules. Set them in black epoxy protruding and then polish them off flat to the middles and they would have "arms". almost the same concept as inlay, but would keep the obviously natural & not a lab crush look. Maybe you'd have to be her...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Critter Corner
- Topic: Should I continue the Funday Sunnies here?
- Replies: 1377
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Re: Should I continue the Funday Sunnies here?
hahaha I feel like the first cat this week. (My moods do vary way more than neural-typical people) I still remember my Dr telling me: (And I swear he looked like Richard Simmons) I have good news and bad news. I took the bad first. I was in menopause...I wasnt aware that was a symptom of ADHD....the...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Synthetic/Lab-created
- Topic: Diamonds grown without extreme pressures
- Replies: 1
- Views: 38
Re: Diamonds grown without extreme pressures
Ah, silicon. Opal and the planets main ingredient (after Oxygen - also in opal) again is intimately involved in processes we keep discovering by stumbling across them, even if we are running in the right direction.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Metals
- Topic: Putting on the Ritz: Cracker Company Contest Features Butter-Shaped 24k Gold Bar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 49
Re: Putting on the Ritz: Cracker Company Contest Features Butter-Shaped 24k Gold Bar
So much better odds than a lottery at the price of a stamp envelope time. Winning things is a big dopamine boost.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Weather and space phenomenon
- Topic: How light can vaporize water without the need for heat
- Replies: 0
- Views: 61
How light can vaporize water without the need for heat
Surprising “photomolecular effect” discovered by MIT researchers could affect calculations of climate change and may lead to improved desalination and drying processes. https://news.mit.edu/2023/surprising-finding-light-makes-water-evaporate-without-heat-1031 https://news.mit.edu/sites/default/files...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Latest News
- Topic: Talking Ancient Cameos: What Ancient Greek Sounded Like
- Replies: 2
- Views: 47
Re: Talking Ancient Cameos: What Ancient Greek Sounded Like
I had to take Latin at military academy and got a B. It did help learning the Italian for a summers vacation, but i weaseled out of 2 years of language on the way to my BA later. Never could roll my Rs. Then again in my testing I was a grade higher in everything than at public school. I was the assi...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Enthusiast Zone
- Topic: Late Tertiary Petrified Wood from Nevada, USA: Evidence of Multiple Silicification Pathways
- Replies: 0
- Views: 120
Late Tertiary Petrified Wood from Nevada, USA: Evidence of Multiple Silicification Pathways
I was happy to provide materials for his research. The folks who mine here talked to him and provided additional specimens for more research. Abstract Late Tertiary fossil woods from the state of Nevada provide an opportunity for observing the mineralization sequences that cause buried wood to becom...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Enthusiast Zone
- Topic: Lightning Ridge Opal Monopoly
- Replies: 5
- Views: 117
Re: Lightning Ridge Opal Monopoly
It does help them. Thanks. I wish all these folks would realize blowing their own horns helps. Depending on others to think up where to advertise is kinda backwards. You would think they would think to make an account on all related sites, like here, but that is the "us only" Facebook appr...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: Enthusiast Zone
- Topic: 7.09 ct. Tanzanian Opal (+ 0.45 ct. Pallasite Peridot)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 44
Re: 7.09 ct. Tanzanian Opal (+ 0.45 ct. Pallasite Peridot)
I had a lizard carved of Tanzanian Opal I got one year> may still have it in the better minerals case? Wasnt that much.