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Old 01-03-2008, 08:12 PM   #16
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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
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Old 01-03-2008, 11:32 PM   #17
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Old 01-04-2008, 01:05 AM   #18
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someday, we'll mine the asteroid belt. i know it will come to pass, cuz i read a sci fi book about it.
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Old 01-04-2008, 11:46 AM   #19
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Was it written by L Ron Hubbard?
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Old 01-04-2008, 12:33 PM   #20
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Old 01-04-2008, 04:11 PM   #21
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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
If you Google it, you'll find that the story is 4 years old and quite real.
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Travis Metcalfe from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the lead member of a team of researchers discovered the largest diamond in the galaxy. It is a chunk of rock made of mainly crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter.
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Old 01-04-2008, 11:39 PM   #22
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Wow - 2 posts in 5 years. Is that a record?
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Old 01-05-2008, 02:42 PM   #23
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Holy shit, where'd you spring from? :p
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Old 01-05-2008, 03:01 PM   #24
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Thats really frightening - How the heck did you remember your password? I just gotta know.

I'll wait, but please don't make me wait another 5 years.....
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