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Old 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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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.’


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.
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Old 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."
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Old 01-02-2008, 07:57 PM   #3
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Old 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"



...right?
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Old 01-02-2008, 08:08 PM   #5
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Wow - 2 posts in 5 years. Is that a record?
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Old 01-02-2008, 08:12 PM   #6
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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!
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Old 01-02-2008, 08:35 PM   #7
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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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Old 01-02-2008, 09:20 PM   #8
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Old 01-02-2008, 09:23 PM   #9
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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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Old 01-02-2008, 10:34 PM   #10
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It's nice and all, but is there a setting that'll be tasteful, yet understated?
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Old 01-02-2008, 10:54 PM   #11
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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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Old 01-02-2008, 11:12 PM   #12
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I think you're right.
This is the other artists conception I've seen... not as pretty.
but probably much more realistic
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Old 01-02-2008, 11:45 PM   #13
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Old 01-02-2008, 11:49 PM   #14
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Old 01-03-2008, 02:42 AM   #15
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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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