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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
"Hey look at this cool rock i found" is definitely a valid courting technique for neurodiverse persons :3
but USUALLY never diamonds.
That's because diamonds are pretty boring. The only thing they have going for them is sparkling. There are SO many prettier gemstones out there.
Hard disagree: they exhibit 4 perfect octahedral cleavage planes in addition to their adamantine lustre, diamond is one of the most useful materials in existence, and their petrological origins speak to incredibly interesting conditions of formation! In fact, a mineral inclusion within a diamond gave us our first solid evidence of the existence of water at equilibrium with mantle rock at depth on Earth, which was previously largely discounted.
But yeah, fuck De Beers.
Is it bad to link to !science_memes@mander.xyz when we are already on !science_memes@mander.xyz ?