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- P3ST4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+175"Rappers call diamonds ice."
Just the fact that an 80 year old man said that is worth a dig. - Gdoubleod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+161WTF is that blade made of? Even though they are CZ this is amazing! Will a blendtec belnder blend a blendtec blender!??!
- cocoamix, on 10/12/2007, -12/+106"If there were diamonds, they would be worth 25 million dollars."
*****.
They'd be worth whatever those bastards at DeBeers decided they'd be worth. - jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+98Which would be, according to current currency, about 25 million dollars.
- whiskeymb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+91I feel cheated....
- Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -35/+112In Soviet Russia, diamonds blend YOU!
- Lungkisser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61Oh, then you mean the kind that you shake and have your question answered?
- namtellum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56What blew up in the intro sequence?
- SLYK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56what grey ass cocaine are you snorting?
- Waterispoison, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52Psh, at the prices those blenders are at you would think they could afford real diamonds.
- KielKilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43No, I seen this video once with a banana and the blade shot out and almost took some guys head off..... 100 km away.
- chembro84, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41Pretty cool to see something clear and shiny like a diamond turn into a powder like that, I suspect that diamonds would do something similar in the blender, just because something is hard, doesn't mean it is resistant to being crushed.
- psygnisfive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Did you know that the high-pressure method for producing synthetic diamonds originated in Soviet Russia?
- Jeremy82465, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36@gdoubleod
I thought about submitting just that suggestion but I feared that it would end us all. So Instead I suggested that he blend an inferior blender. - mpkauto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35i dont. i want that job so bad!
it would totally be worth getting cancer just to blend stuff on the internets. - mpkauto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33in a blendtec blender, anything is possible...except the blender breaking.
- surf314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28The real question is when this guy is going to get lung cancer or something similar. Almost feel sorry for the guy, almost.
- MaxwellTD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Does it blend food?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31But, will it... oh wait, nevermind.
- offput, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26AKA 25 Million dollars. It might be a monopoly controlled by an international cartel, but that doesn't invalidate their pricing; it just makes it evil.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22In layman's terms:
His job satisfaction is OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!! - Devoboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20You have no vision.
- Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16No, they really aren't. Diamonds rank 10 on that scale, but that scale isn't linear. In actual strength, diamonds are double the hardness of the item that ranks 9 on that scale.
On Moh's scale, Diamond is given a 10, and corundum is given a 9, but in absolute units, diamond measures in at 1500 units, and corundum only measures up to 400. That's a big difference!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness - Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14The real question is, can a blendtec blender create enough heat and pressure to turn coal into diamond?
- SIRBERUS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Yeah... I feel cheated too. This is the second bait-n-switch they have pulled. Last time it was a crow bar I believe.
I know its petty... but I still feel cheated and its annoying. Call it what it is, but don't get my hopes up =(. - ethon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Your attempt at humor has failed. Please try again.
- anonydigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12will it blend?
- esc27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10What if the blender's blades didn't have to cut the diamonds so much as force them into each other and thus have the diamonds cut the diamonds?
- Washandje, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Diamond smoke... don't breathe this. Cracks me up every time.
- angrycat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Tom is such a pimp
- xaxxon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9No, please do NOT try again. Thanks, please drive thru.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It's a bloody commercial. Other companies waste much more money than one old ipod to make one.
- Rikkochet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11How do you figure?
- cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7After watching all these it still cracks me up the way he looks at the camera and smiles.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8gun powder
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"Generally, the Soviet Russia jokes make me want to vomit. For whatever reason, I like this one."
In Soviet Russia vomit regurgitates you! - Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8True. Diamonds are a 10 on the hardness scale he used. (Mohs I think. Am I mistaken?), but that scale isn't linear; it's only a ranking. If I remember correctly, the actual hardness of a diamond is over double that of the second hardest substance, whatever that was.
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But thank goodness the submitter put *Video* in the title. I don't know how many times I get a totally caught off guard when a video starts to play when I click on the picture. : p . I'll drive thru now.
- AustinGoodchild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well i will never need to spend that much money on a blender as i will never be 'blending' diamonds, ipods, footballs, pens, marbles, golf balls, rake handles, hocket puts, credit cards, ect.
... so the 20 pound one does it for me. - tb0n3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The Mohs scale is ordinal. Meaning that something at 10 is twice as hard as something at 9; 9 is twice as hard as 8; 8 is twice as hard as 7, etc.
So, implying that because cubic zirconia is 8.5, and diamonds are 10, that they're nearly the same hardness isn't being honest. CZ isn't even close to diamonds in hardness.
That being said, it's not that difficult to "blend" gemstones, including diamonds. They're hard, resistant to cutting, yes. But they're also crystalline. Apply enough force, and they shatter. - jtibble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I would imagine that off camera when he opens the ones with dust he's wearing some sort of mask or protection
- WeBDaEMoN33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No, because the cap is designed to let out pressure. Otherwise the blender would explode quite easily with the kind of stuff this guy blends. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Don't breathe this!"
- SharinganBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thank you, I was just about to say the same thing. It was just that the "diamonds" were cutting themselves.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@anonydigg
That's the only "will it blend" comment that I have ever dugg up. You sir are a god among men. - Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If he's even in the same room as the blender, he's taking a huge risk of dieing.
I'm sure he tests lots of crap, watching through bulletproof glass, to make sure he doesn't die if he tries to do it while standing next to it. - unclesaamm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is ordinal, but that doesn't mean that the hardness doubles by every unit on the scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement - martinnguyen90, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Diamonds (or cubic zirconia) will break it they are strongly impacted on along its most vulnerable planes (along planes of its crystal structure). I'm guessing this is why the cubic zirconia crushed. Also, the substance, because of their equivalent hardness, is fully capable of disintegrating material of the same hardness (follows, and is commonly known that, only a diamond can cut a diamond)
- mwdcodeninja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4he could have at least used the industrial cheepies...
- spriggig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4He coulda mixed in a few real diamonds from Gemesis for comparison.
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