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01-02-2008, 02:19 AM | #1 | ||
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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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If you don't want to travel 50 light years for a piece of it, all you have to do is wait. Quote:
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01-02-2008, 06:53 PM | #2 |
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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." |
01-02-2008, 07:57 PM | #3 |
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Stock in De beers is about to drop like a rock.
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01-02-2008, 08:04 PM | #4 |
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This is certainly cool physics news but this picture is certainly a poory photoshopped "artist's conception"
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01-02-2008, 08:12 PM | #5 |
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it does have a certain "Flash Gordon" special effects quality to it, doesn't it? ooooowah!
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01-02-2008, 10:54 PM | #6 | |
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This is the other artists conception I've seen... not as pretty.
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01-02-2008, 11:12 PM | #7 |
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01-02-2008, 11:45 PM | #8 |
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All I can think of is Daffy Duck shoving Bugs Bunny off of it while saying, "Back, back, back! Mine, mine mine!!!"
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01-03-2008, 02:42 AM | #9 |
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01-03-2008, 08:12 PM | #10 |
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Crystallization of the material of a white dwarf of this type is thought to result in a body-centered cubic lattice of carbon and/or oxygen nuclei, which are surrounded by a Fermi sea of electrons.
That, um, isn't *quite* the same thing as diamond. Diamonds aren't, last I checked, composed of degenerate matter. And Pravda.ru is Russian for Weekly World News -- all tabloid, all the time. So this thread is kinda like posting pictures of Bat Boy as IOTD :p |
01-02-2008, 08:08 PM | #11 |
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Wow - 2 posts in 5 years. Is that a record?
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01-04-2008, 11:39 PM | #12 |
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01-02-2008, 08:35 PM | #13 |
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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."
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01-02-2008, 09:20 PM | #14 |
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What I want to know is Where's Elizabeth Taylor?
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01-02-2008, 09:23 PM | #15 |
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You know how fabulous diamonds have a proper name, like: The Hope Diamond? This one will probably be called The Holy Fucking Shit Diamond.
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