The Hardest Naturally Occurring Substance on Earth


Yep - You all know from grammar school that is the diamond, which incidentally is what is used to make the stylus of our turntable cartridges.  If it is so hard, and it is going up against some fairly soft vinyl, why do we worry about poor quality LPs damaging the cartridge or stylus?  Sure, I understand the cantilever, but the actual Stylus?  The old phrase for me is "Does Not Compute".   What are your thoughts and insights?
pgaulke60
rodman9x...*G*  Thereby we run into an interesting paradox of human mental states...

We sometimes to refer to one as being 'dense', which can be analogus to the 'hard vacuum'.  Which can lead to one being 'brainless', 'mentally AOL', and the like.
We all succumb to 'having that (info, memory, knowledge, word) on the tip of ones' tongue', but only recalling it later when it's not relevant, or merely frustrating.  This only makes one feel that ones' 'on board RAM' isn't terribly reliable.
At that juncture, having a 'memory dump' might seem a 'good thing', returning to the 'empty/vacuumed' state.
This runs the risk of rendering one 'clueless' and 'vacuous' yet again.

If 'Anything' is 'in charge' or created this universe, 'It' has a very odd sense of humor.  And has It's own paradox:
How can one be everywhere when it's nowhere at all?

Cosmic 'Whack-a-mole'.....*L*  Good Sunday fare....
asvjerry
rodman9x...*G* Thereby we run into an interesting paradox of human mental states...

We sometimes to refer to one as being ’dense’, which can be analogus to the ’hard vacuum’. Which can lead to one being ’brainless’, ’mentally AOL’, and the like.
We all succumb to ’having that (info, memory, knowledge, word) on the tip of ones’ tongue’, but only recalling it later when it’s not relevant, or merely frustrating.

>>>>>Yes, mentally AOL is no fun, maybe worse than mentally Google.
....actually, I mis-typed 'AWOL', but AOL could be 'Absolutely Out to Lunch'...*G*
It could be discussed and cussed that AOL and its' ilk led to The Google goblin....the noun, the verb, the know-all tells-all oracle of the datasphere.

I'm awaiting the day one reads a scholarly paper in which all the references are websites from Google.  I remember there was a teleplay that depicted the eventual closing of the 'book' libraries, due to lack of patrons....one hopes it remains a work of fiction.
Since sound can't travel in a vacuum; I find the voices in my head reassuring.     Counting them is difficult though, with all those pesky echos.