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Offline NUMBERZero

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God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« on: August 24, 2009, 06:17:55 PM »
Some of you have probably heard of this (special mention to Tech Pro and his family because they seem to be on top of everything cool and scientific ;)), but there is a 10 BILLION TRILLION TRILLION carat diamond floating 10 lightyears away from us that's just begging to be picked!

I know, I know, the article was waaaay back in 2004, but I've never heard of it till today in one of my magazines. So some of you might not know too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm

It's just a short news article from the BBC that came up first using Google.


Now imagine the price of diamonds if we were able to get a hold of it. We might be seeing a whole bunch of Diamond Claws!
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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2009, 05:06:27 AM »
I actually hadn't ever heard this before, but it doesn't surprise me. As the article states, scientists have theorized that white dwarfs can "crystallize" after awhile for several years now. Heard of some pretty popular sci-fi books that addressed this theory. :)

Too bad it's fifty lightyears away. If we ever plan to get to it within a person's lifetime, we'd have to invent something like a warp core first. :P
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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2009, 10:59:14 AM »
Let's hope we have nobody named Dravis involved in the warp core project!  ;D
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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2009, 10:01:15 PM »
Personally, I'd love to take a Pyro out just to see what that this looks like when you shine a bright beam of light on it.




Imagine rainbow colors refracted across the nearest gas giant.  8)
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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2009, 05:14:55 AM »
I dunno if that'd work too well in space.

Too spacious. :P

But then, seeing that nobody's ever done it before... ;)
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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2009, 01:22:12 PM »
It looks like it's at the core of a planet, anyway.

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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2009, 01:27:16 PM »
...and it would be a 'diamond-in-the-rough' (e.g. uncut, no facets).
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Re: God's diamond. Bring your diamond plated tungsten swingarm?
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2009, 06:02:57 AM »
Quote from: WillyP
It looks like it's at the core of a planet, anyway.

Dwarf star, actually, which is the core of a dead star. Usually they're left pretty dang hot (hot enough to continue producing some light) after the star's dead and gone, but I believe the article indicated that this one had cooled off.
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