The Cellar - January 2, 2008; Ten Billion Trillion Trillion Carat Diamond

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January 2, 2008; Ten Billion Trillion Trillion Carat Diamond

PRAVDA, RU, claims scientists have discovered the largest diamond, evah!

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Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds).

The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter. The stone is located at a distance of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus.

Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun. Astronomers have already dubbed the space diamond as Lucy in a tribute to the Beatles song ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.’

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If you don't want to travel 50 light years for a piece of it, all you have to do is wait.

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Astronomers say that our Sun will die in five billion years and become a white dwarf too. About two billion years after it will turn into a similar diamond that will continue to sparkle in the center of the solar system forever.

Yes first, yeah I know Im lame but still, and my god,

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.

He asked her about it.

"This is the Catto diamond," she said.

"It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse that goes with it."

"What's the curse?"

the man asked.

"Mr. Catto."

Stock in De beers is about to drop like a rock.

This is certainly cool physics news but this picture is certainly a poory photoshopped "artist's conception"

...right?

Wow - 2 posts in 5 years. Is that a record?

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Originally Posted by frasier123 (Post 421039)

This is certainly cool physics news but this picture is certainly a poory photoshopped "artist's conception"

...right?

it does have a certain "Flash Gordon" special effects quality to it, doesn't it? ooooowah!

I think Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' works here too:

"Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond."

What I want to know is Where's Elizabeth Taylor?:D

You know how fabulous diamonds have a proper name, like: The Hope Diamond? This one will probably be called The Holy Fucking Shit Diamond.:eek:

It's nice and all, but is there a setting that'll be tasteful, yet understated?

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Originally Posted by frasier123 (Post 421039)

This is certainly cool physics news but this picture is certainly a poory photoshopped "artist's conception"

...right?

I think you're right.
This is the other artists conception I've seen... not as pretty.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 421097)

I think you're right.
This is the other artists conception I've seen... not as pretty.

but probably much more realistic

All I can think of is Daffy Duck shoving Bugs Bunny off of it while saying, "Back, back, back! Mine, mine mine!!!"

Are you sure it's an artists conception? Aren't there other suns out there quartered like a grapefruit, and photographed by Dick Tracy, or Captain Kirk or something?

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 421097)

I think you're right.
This is the other artists conception I've seen... not as pretty.