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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Take on a second job to fulfill your civic duty to De Beers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Surely there's some lab process where you could take actual blood and process it into a shiny bauble.

I could see that as a romantic gesture.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can made lab diamonds from blood. Diamonds are just carbon and almost everything thing has carbon. You can right now get your dead relatives' ashes made into a diamond. It would probably take a while to be able safely get enough of your own blood to make a diamond though. But that would make it more romantic, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure about the amount of blood you'd really need though since I think all of these "ashes to diamonds" places add their own carbon, too. From one such website:

We combine your loved one’s carbon, a microscopic Diamond seed, and generic carbon into a growth cell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

TBH I was hoping for something less clear diamond and more garnet/ruby looking.

The man-made rubies you can get off AliExpress are pretty nice, but they don't quite scream "deranged blood ritual"