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Old 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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Old 2004-02-14, 10:38 AM   [Ignore Me] #2
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i wonder how much its worth
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Old 2004-02-14, 11:22 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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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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Old 2004-02-14, 11:24 AM   [Ignore Me] #4
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Indeed
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Old 2004-02-14, 11:35 AM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Old 2004-02-14, 11:35 AM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Uncle D. i dont even think they make enough money for that "hunk of celestial bling."
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Old 2004-02-14, 11:40 AM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Psh, who needs diamonds - Fnd me a hunk of celestial gold that I can melt down and plate completely random objects with, then attach to a necklace.


Like a dinner plate.
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Old 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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Old 2004-02-14, 12:09 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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cool...10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000 carats huh?
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Old 2004-02-14, 12:36 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Wonder how that'd look on my hand.....
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Old 2004-02-14, 12:48 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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That would be some Valentine's Day gift.....:O
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Old 2004-02-14, 01:08 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Jennifer Lopez just bought it...
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Old 2004-02-14, 01:13 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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Meh...
The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.
Retards. It's a dead star, not sun, and even if it was, you would capitalize "sun," because it is a name, not a group.
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Old 2004-02-14, 01:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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(FYI: The sun is a star. It appears so much bigger than the others because it is the closest star in our galaxy.)
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Old 2004-02-14, 01:15 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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That would be correct.
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