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of having starships jolt to a halt whenever acceleration is cut.
Instead, they commit a different writing crime which is just as bad, namely, using diamonds as hard currency backup in case there's trouble with the banks.
Carbon's only the fourth most common element in the entire universe! And even if it weren't, I feel certain that any place humans can live is simply brimming with the stuff. More carbon = more diamonds. They're just not that rare. The books don't even bother to handwave that diamonds are intrinsically valuable for some technobabble reason, which has caused the price to shoot up beyond the wildest expectations of de Beers.
Diamonds are a scam, and sometime in the future people are going to realize that.
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Instead, they commit a different writing crime which is just as bad, namely, using diamonds as hard currency backup in case there's trouble with the banks.
Carbon's only the fourth most common element in the entire universe! And even if it weren't, I feel certain that any place humans can live is simply brimming with the stuff. More carbon = more diamonds. They're just not that rare. The books don't even bother to handwave that diamonds are intrinsically valuable for some technobabble reason, which has caused the price to shoot up beyond the wildest expectations of de Beers.
Diamonds are a scam, and sometime in the future people are going to realize that.
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