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2004-02-14, 10:12 AM | [Ignore Me] #1 | ||
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Astronomers spy 10 billion trillion trillion-carat diamond
The Associated Press If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093. The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros. The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem. The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus. The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun. Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis. A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication. |
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2004-02-14, 11:22 AM | [Ignore Me] #3 | ||
Lieutenant Colonel
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A massive diamond 300 trillion miles away...
Hmmmm.... If I build a great big starship, tow it back, and bring it into Earth's orbit, I could be rich! Like, insanely rich! Except by the time I get back, civilization will have probably died out, leaving Earth a barren hulk of rock devoid of any jeweler who could cash in the diamond. Even if there was, the massive amounts of diamond flooding the market would crash prices and I'll get something like, $13.20 for the whole thing. Plus, there would be the problem of a huge diamond causing gravitational chaos in orbit... meh.
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2004-02-14, 12:03 PM | [Ignore Me] #8 | ||
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According to my google search, a 1 carat diamond of the lowest quality is worth about $189. So that diamond would be worth about 1.8919 x 10^36 dollars. Or
$18,919,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000 if my calculations are correct. Somebody else could verify. In short, if you put all the money on earth together, you still could not buy it. Literally.
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