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onebadmollafolla
09-13-2010, 12:40 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3492919.stm

Whoever finds a way to get to it will have enough wealth to enslave the human race. :cool:

EDIT: Article is from 2004. Oh well, if I haven't heard it, it's news to me!
DocWalt
09-13-2010, 12:46 PM
Interesting. Strange stuff in space.
colt45 gto
09-13-2010, 12:47 PM
wow! thats impressive but! how do they know?
VR4
09-13-2010, 01:35 PM
wow! thats impressive but! how do they know?


i drove my supra up there and verified it. once the turbo spooled i was there in 2 days.
DocWalt
09-13-2010, 01:37 PM
hahahaha. :D
colt45 gto
09-13-2010, 01:49 PM
i drove my supra up there and verified it. once the turbo spooled i was there in 2 days.

no shit! hahaha
VR4
09-13-2010, 01:54 PM
no shit! hahaha

2JZ.



no shit.
onebadmollafolla
09-13-2010, 02:19 PM
i drove my supra up there and verified it. once the turbo spooled i was there in 2 days.

So it took a week to get there? :D
Atrosity
09-13-2010, 02:20 PM
Hahahahhaha!
x2percentmilk
09-13-2010, 02:25 PM
So it took a week to get there? :D

LOL! I just snorted and laughed out loud in a library.

on a side note that diamond is awesome, i wonder how often this occurs in the universe.
Alex3000gt
09-13-2010, 10:46 PM
Repost! I posted this on the other site about a year ago. :)
onebadmollafolla
09-13-2010, 11:53 PM
Repost! I posted this on the other site about a year ago. :)

Omit. This is a new site.
NickS VR4
09-14-2010, 09:27 AM
So what happened to the theory of stars exploding and becoming black holes when they die? That article says our sun will become one after it burns out. Damn all these "facts" I learned in science class.
deadlylegacy
09-14-2010, 03:52 PM
So what happened to the theory of stars exploding and becoming black holes when they die? That article says our sun will become one after it burns out. Damn all these "facts" I learned in science class.

Depends on the strength of the sun really. If it burns out quickly it dwindles to a white dwarf and burns out into a compact mass, if it burns slowly it has alot of mass still which collapses into a black hole. Ours burns slowly.

Or something along those lines. But in regards to the diamond, it would cause massive inflation in the diamond market and would lose a ton of value, haha.
blindmist
09-14-2010, 03:59 PM
wow! thats impressive but! how do they know?

Sounds like you need a good dose of cosmos. Got Netflix? Carl explains this better than I can.

Long story short. They take the light that we see from it, split it into a spectrum. There are certain colors or shades that are not seen and they leave a black line in the spectrum. Every element has its own unique light ID. Therefore, we are able to determine the elemental makeup. We see a lot of carbon, and its a fully collapsed white dwarf, it is inevitable that it is a diamond.

You can actually do this light test at home if you have a way to put a prism in the focal point just in front of the eye piece.
Emilie@GZP
09-14-2010, 03:59 PM
HANS!! I want THAT one! kthanxbai! :)
deadlylegacy
09-14-2010, 04:58 PM
HANS!! I want THAT one! kthanxbai! :)

Now you've done it onebadmollafolla...
93STLTH
09-15-2010, 06:42 PM
I hooked a tractor beam to it and tried to pull it to earth, but I miscalculated the trajectory and it got stuck in Uranus. :-D