Discovered: 10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carat Diamond...Seriously

[onebadmollafolla]

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.

EDIT: Article is from 2004. Oh well, if I haven't heard it, it's news to me!

[DocWalt]

Interesting. Strange stuff in space.

[colt45 gto]

wow! thats impressive but! how do they know?

[VR4]

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.

[colt45 gto]

i drove my supra up there and verified it. once the turbo spooled i was there in 2 days.

no shit! hahaha

[VR4]

no shit! hahaha

2JZ.



no shit.

[onebadmollafolla]

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?

[x2percentmilk]

So it took a week to get there?

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.

[blindmist]

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.

[DocWalt]

hahahaha.