# If you don't understand a question, you probably don't have a valuable answer

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 9, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-understand-a-question-you-probably-dont-have-a-valuable-answer/1005505 "2024-08-09T21:16:35Z")
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### Author: ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-dont-understand-a-question-you-probably-dont-have-a-valuable-answer/1005505/152 "2024-08-26T16:40:51Z")

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Look at my most recent question in FQ:

> [@Is there some idea of a largest likely intact single crystal diamond on the surface?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-some-idea-of-a-largest-likely-intact-single-crystal-diamond-on-the-surface/1006094):
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> Triggered by this find, but I’ve wondered about it for a while. Is there thoughts on if internal stresses of diamonds brought to the low-pressure frigid surface might cause diamonds above a certain size to shatter? None of the largest found diamonds are especially large (this one is a little more than a pound) and none of the largest ones I jnow of are a neat octohedron.

Nobody has answered it, which is disappointing, but that just means that nobody that has read it has the answer, and that nobody has lept in with useless non-answers like complaining that I didn’t explain what “internal stresses” are or going off on some tangent on DeBeers or something.

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