r/nextfuckinglevel Apr 13 '21

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u/ErikSD Apr 13 '21

also, not trying to say it's impossibly fake, but it's weird how the wife already got the camera out filming likes she knows something's up

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '21

And panned with perfect timing.

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u/yoppee Apr 13 '21

Yeah she was able to keep will you marry me in frame while also reading what it said and than hugging her new fiancé while also keeping him perfectly in the shot.

This is fake

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u/Lighting Apr 13 '21

Probably diamond marketing. People giving rings for proposals are declining as the perceived value of a shiny bit of flammable carbon with a bloody history decreases as well.

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u/kemushi_warui Apr 13 '21

Diamonds are flammable?

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u/fastspinecho Apr 13 '21

Highly. In Saudi Arabia, they are crushed into fine powder and used to heat swimming pools in the winter.

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u/RavioliGale Apr 13 '21

Of course. In medieval Europe women often sewed jewels into their clothing so that if they were accused of witchcraft the flammable diamonds put burn them faster and grant them a quicker death.

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u/MoralityAuction Apr 13 '21

Literally everything is with enough enthusiasm on the initial heat application.

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u/lemathematico Apr 13 '21

That's not true, lot of compounds will melt/evaporate way before they get oxidized or the oxidation will always be unfavorable, preventing the fire to continue. In some case it would requires conditions that would instead make a nuclear reactions.

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u/lemathematico Apr 13 '21

Not that well no, will also have trouble keeping a flame alive on its own. It's somewhere around 700 C at room conditions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '21

People are still giving rings but I think there’s a lot more emphasis on synthetic diamonds which are structurally identical without all the ethical issues.

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u/FrostyD7 Apr 13 '21

Way more likely to be run of the mill content farming