Diamond in Space

That's absurdly ridiculous. hahaha. Imagine people just mining the entire thing? Diamonds would then have as much value as the dirt stuck in my shoes.

I especially like how poetic the scientists are:
Our Sun will become a diamond that truly is forever
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King of Creation said:
That's absurdly ridiculous. hahaha. Imagine people just mining the entire thing? Diamonds would then have as much value as the dirt stuck in my shoes.
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Not really.

Imagine the cost and time it would take to go 50 light-years away for a diamond!

And I think the sun will obliterate us all when it dies - not entierly sure, though. That won't be for another five billion years anyway.
 
toresica said:
King of Creation said:
That's absurdly ridiculous. hahaha. Imagine people just mining the entire thing? Diamonds would then have as much value as the dirt stuck in my shoes.
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Not really.

Imagine the cost and time it would take to go 50 light-years away for a diamond!

And I think the sun will obliterate us all when it dies - not entierly sure, though. That won't be for another five billion years anyway.
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Not really. A white dwarf has much more mass than Sol does, iirc. It won't ever reach the critical mass necessary to compress its carbon core to crystalline density. Besides, as I understand it the sun will use the last of its energy in the conversion of things like sodium and such to the final product of iron...how is a white dwarf's final product carbon?
 
Murdoch said:
Not really. A white dwarf has much more mass than Sol does, iirc. It won't ever reach the critical mass necessary to compress its carbon core to crystalline density. Besides, as I understand it the sun will use the last of its energy in the conversion of things like sodium and such to the final product of iron...how is a white dwarf's final product carbon?
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White dwarfs aside, won't the sun become a red giant and in the process SWALLOW OUR SOULS...

Ehm...

I meant swallow us whole...
 
Kharn said:
Murdoch said:
Not really. A white dwarf has much more mass than Sol does, iirc. It won't ever reach the critical mass necessary to compress its carbon core to crystalline density. Besides, as I understand it the sun will use the last of its energy in the conversion of things like sodium and such to the final product of iron...how is a white dwarf's final product carbon?
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White dwarfs aside, won't the sun become a red giant and in the process SWALLOW OUR SOULS...

Ehm...

I meant swallow us whole...
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yeah, but after it expands and consumes the inner solar system in the process of using the remains of its fuel it will wither into a small inert ball of..iron I guess.

Interesting: The final breakdown product of almost all matter is iron. Nucular (j/k) reactions have a final product that is always iron, albeit after eons. In the end, we're not all stardust, were rust. :cry:
 
Oh, mercy... That is one big hunk of ice! Amazing!


It's the mother of all diamonds!" says Metcalfe. "Some people refer to it as 'Lucy' in a tribute to the Beatles song 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
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'Lucy'... That's cute, named after the Beatles' song. And I bet not many of you remember (when it first came out) that song, huh? I do - I guess I just dated myself, for sure.
 
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