weird jewelry

[kengr]

Came across this in an old comment by siliconshaman:

"no matter how much you shine a turd it's still not a diamond"

Which gave me the thought of making jewelry from polished coprolites (the kind that are *completely* mineralized, thank you very much)

"It's just some shitty jewelry I got given.."

Comments

[acelightning73]

There's a country song with the title, 'I'm just an old chunk of coal, but I'm gonna be a diamond someday."

For that matter, any animal dung contains a large amount of carbon, and if you give it enough heat and presssure, it might crystalize. Lab-grown diamonds are getting popular because they're cheaper than mined diamonds, and are unlikely to be "blood diamonds" (used to finance vicious tribal wars) (And lab-grown diamonds may have a lot of uses as circuit substrates - the nature of carbon crystals allows for very fast switching rates.

[siliconshaman]

Lord, I'd completely forgotten about that... although I am sure someone is already making dinosaur poo jewelry!

[chanter1944]

This, especially the last line, made me laugh out loud while on a city bus. XD XD XD