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Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds"
Third Position writes "Oceans of liquid diamond topped with solid 'icebergs' of the precious gems could be on Uranus and Neptune. The first-ever detailed research into the melting point of diamond found it behaves like water during melting and freezing — with its solid form floating on the liquid. A large diamond ocean on one or both of the planets could provide an explanation for an oddity they both share: unlike Earth, they do not have magnetic poles that match up with their geographical poles." The article doesn't mention what the pressures might be like in these outer-planets environments, but the researchers found that liquefying diamond requires 40 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level.
So now /.ers can tell their "girlfriends" that if you want a diamond, you're free to look for one in Uranus?
"Anyone who [rips a CD] is probably engaging in copyright infringement." - David O. Carson
"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond."
-- Ferris Bueller
There's no way this is even remotely possible.
I mean, diamonds are rare, aren't they? You know it, I know it, and De Beers know it.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Dibs on Uranus.
That's nothing. I know of a planet that is made out of candy and chocolate and ponies. Just step into my vehicle, and I'll show it to you, little girl.
... and then they built the supercollider.
It's the SKIES that are made of diamonds.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
>if there were a mountain of gold bars on the moon it would not be economical to go get some.
Why not? All you have to do is get there, ie. the cost of the rocket and fuel, plus training and supplies.
Then once you're up there, all you have to do is throw all the gold back down.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
I'm waiting for Unobtainium.
So now /.ers can tell their "girlfriends" that if you want a diamond, you're free to look for one in Uranus?
I'm sorry langelgjm but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all...
Then once you're up there, all you have to do is throw all the gold back down.
Well, you'd have to "throw" it down slowly enough so that it doesn't become a molten, white-hot projectile and embed itself several miles in the ground when it crash-lands.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
But then you'd miss out on all the fun of mining it out of the Earth...
Yeah but the catch is you need obscene amounts of unobtainium to get there.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
I was going to reply that Slashdotters don't have girlfriends, but you had to go ahead and put quotation marks around it.
You have won this time langeljgm!!!
Not one fekking word to my wife. I will find you.
That sinking feeling deep in your gut when you KNOW you screwed up bad summed up with: {head desk} {head desk}
I would have formulated it as:
"space diamonds... the most romantic diamond yet. Shit that's been floating in Uranus for years can now be on your hand - FOREVER."
but that's just me.
~men are from earth. women are from earth. deal with it.~