> Strebe has coated a $2 million (£1.6 million) 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond in the material
Wouldn't it have been smarter to, say, make a glass replica, coat that, and pocket the $2 million diamond?
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#12> Strebe has coated a $2 million (£1.6 million) 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond in the material Wouldn't it have been smarter to, say, make a glass replica, coat that, and pocket the $2 million diamond?
It's a piece of art - you could reduce the cost in many ways but it's subjective whether you'd be achieving the same thing as it doesn't have any intrinsic value except for how people appreciate it.
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#13> Strebe has coated a $2 million (£1.6 million) 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond in the material Wouldn't it have been smarter to, say, make a glass replica, coat that, and pocket the $2 million diamond?
In that case it wouldn't be art but just a demonstration.
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#14> Strebe has coated a $2 million (£1.6 million) 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond in the material Wouldn't it have been smarter to, say, make a glass replica, coat that, and pocket the $2 million diamond?
It's a piece of art - you could reduce the cost in many ways but it's subjective whether you'd be achieving the same thing as it doesn't have any intrinsic value except for how people appreciate it.
I know. My "joke" is that the artist could have used it as a scheme to steal a diamond. Not necessarily implying any foul play though.
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#15> Strebe has coated a $2 million (£1.6 million) 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond in the material Wouldn't it have been smarter to, say, make a glass replica, coat that, and pocket the $2 million diamond?
Archimedes solved figuring out for density, there are also other non-destructive tests.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a piece of art - you could reduce the cost in many ways but it's subjective whether you'd be achieving the same thing as it doesn't have any intrinsic value except for how people appreciate it.
I know. My "joke" is that the artist could have used it as a scheme to steal a diamond. Not necessarily implying any foul play though.
There's an old cartoon depicting a man standing outside of a Jeff Koons art show with a table full of inflatable animals and flowers for sale.
A sign says "your friends will never know the difference!"
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#17There's a great youtube video called "Darker Than Vantablack" that has a cool demo of light reflecting off of different paints, etc; and at the end he revels how he got such a pure black without vantablack or a darker substance. It's neat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoLEIiza9Bc
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#18I think it would be cool to walk into a room painted entirely with this material. I bet it would be so disorienting that people would fall down and get vertigo. So weird.
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#19Come on journalists, you say they published it, but you don't link to it. Where is the whitepaper?
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#20I feel like they missed the opportunity to name it None More Black [1].