[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[Knapp]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:37:35AM -0400, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
>  > Ob Trav: Once diamonds and other such rare items can be easily
>  > synthesized to the point that nobody can tell the difference, what
>  > will women demand then?
>
>  We can already synthesize diamonds for which only an experienced
>  diamond jeweller with special equipment can tell the difference.
>
>  I do suspect that as synthesis technology progresses, so will
>  analysis.  Hence I'm not sure that even in Traveller times such a
>  scenario would necessarily eventuate.
>
>  If it did - there's still the likelihood of diamonds still being in
>  demand, only the ones with any value would all have certificates of
>  natural provenance from reputable sources.
>
>
>  I also think that if that were the case, pretty much anything else
>  natural could also be synthesized right down to the level of
>  individual atoms.  If "inability to synthesize" were a requirement, it
>  would probably have to be something truly exotic and probably not even
>  humanly perceptible (primordial magnetic monopoles?)  But that would
>  seem to defeat the whole purpose of being a flauntable status symbol.
>
>
>  - Tim

Leaves you with nothing but one of a kind art and that would be hard
to prove too. Even now paintings are forged and the fake works for
sometime.


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Douglas E Knapp
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