10 billion trillion trillion-carat diamond

[Jaged]

If I could somehow reach that diamond, the best way to get rich would be to chip off smaller pieces and sell them on earth slowly, so as not to flood the market.

[Triggar]

You'd have to chip off enough pieces to make the trip worthwhile - and you have the issue of gravity and the vacuum of space to think about. Would you be able to chip pieces off?

Sidenote, imagine landing a space module on a giant diamond.

[Jaged]

Ok, get a giant space ship, and tow it closer to earth, but not close enough to mess up any orbits or anything. And then mine it and sell it.

That or just build a robot mining army and a teleporter, send them both to the diamond, have them mine it and teleport it back.

[Triggar]

But what if the robot army revolts, steals the diamonds for themselves, and decides to take over the world with their newfound wealth?

[Jaged]

The army doesn't have AI. I program them to do what I want and send instant radio waves to update their commands by sending the radio waves through the teleporter.

[Ait'al]

You would have to worry about disrupting the solar systems gravity with that thing. And a dimaond of what size at 1 carot is 189. That isnt right. You can get tiny diamonds that are about 2-3 mm accross at like 20 karots for less than that.

You guys realize this makes all the ancient people who beleived that stars were made of gems correct. They were all correct 5000-2000 years ago. I hope the other feilds of science get a clue and start cracking out the old books and start looking more closely at why they all thought that. They underestimate the reasoning behind all ancient culture enough now, anyways. They all had very real reasons for beleiving what they did outside of ther own myths. I hope to get to see it someday soon.(i personally think none of hte "myths" were for the reason some poeple think they are today.)

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/previous/latest.html

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/hotimage/ harvards pics. cool 8)

[UncleDynamite]

Originally Posted by Ait'al

You guys realize this makes all the ancient people who beleived that stars were made of gems correct.

Uh, not really. This isn't a star that they're talking about, it's the dead remains of one (hence, the "dwarf" status). Stars are composed mostly of hydrogen and helium. Towards the center of the star, it gets so hot and pressurized that helium fuses into carbon. When the helium runs out, the star "dies" and its outer layers shed away. The carbon core is what remains, and in this case the carbon has crystalized into a diamond. For a star, I suppose you could say that its part diamond (the core), but it'll still be made mostly of H and He.

There are very large stars in which its hot and pressurized enough to fuse carbon into oxygen, then fuse oxygen into silicon, then silicon into iron, but these stars are the ones that usually go nova when they die.

[Rayder]

Ait, it's 2,000 - 5,000 years....

[Bighoss]

I bet debeers is already all over that.

[Seer]

A diamond that large is effectively worthless. If it existed in a way we could get it at, it would be as common as dirt. Well, not worthless, it would just depress the value of diamonds exponentially.

[Sputty]

Originally Posted by Bighoss

I bet debeers is already all over that.

Yep, now all they need is some aliens to enslave. Not enough Africans to handle something that big

[Triggar]

There's always the Chinese....

[Ait'al]

NO shit dinamyte. They are refering to fucking stars that are going to turn into a diomand if this is true. There may very well be others that will then turn into rubies and other crystals based on hte stars makup. And Rayder, i meant 5000-2000 not 2000-5000.

[Sputty]

Originally Posted by Triggar

There's always the Chinese....

Good point

[Everay]

is a billion people enough?

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/vnews/...a?in_archive=1

that better explains it.