Good news for Russia: they claim an asteroid crater has $1
Quadrillion of diamonds in it. Unfortunately for them, the crater may be
theirs, but the diamond asteroid was mine, and they broke it, so they will have
to pay for it. That will be $1 Quadrillion, please. (No checks!)
In a side note, now that Russia has $1 Quadrillion-worth of
new diamonds, surely diamonds will plummet in value to where they’re worth about the
same as zircons, right? They’re only valuable because they’re rare, you know.
Well, guess what? They’re not really all that rare anymore, all of a sudden.
Here’s the shimmering story:
