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The titles a little misleading but it's interesting none the less. I hope I've got this in the right section.

[edit on 11-6-2009 by Scope and a Beam]

OK, so how much is it worth? 0o


Imagine that on a ring... hahaha.

so is it a size of a planet or is it more like the size of Texas?

Er, looks like it would be the size of the moon.

moon = 2500 miles = about 4000km

-Edrick

That's still not big and shiny enough to satisfy some women I know.

I thought that suns that burned themselves out turned into dense dwarfs (no not stupid little people)

Carbon is a relatively "light" element.

Wow! That is so beautiful! I don't really get how big they are saying it is, but the reference to needing a jewlers' tool as big as the sun makes it sound very very large!

Thanks for finding and posting this article, I can't wait for more information to come in on this!

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No problem .

I imagine it's bigger than or the same size as our sun from the reference to identifying it's worth. They should bring it to earth and sell it, would solve the recession straight away lol.

Wow that would be a jeweler's dream....or a female's dream ring

to the OP: you should change your quote, you have some lines mixed in about a soviet submarine in there..

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Oh yeah thanks for that, it's been edited now.

DeBeers already secured complete mining rights to the giant diamond by paying off prominent local politicians. They have plans to start enslaving the people that live on the diamond and forcing them to work and die as miners.

Jon

Good news for space exploration! The N.Y. Jewish diamond market just contributed 500 Billion dollars towards N.A.S.A.! We will soon have that baby being cut with giant lasers.

"The white dwarf is not only radiant but also harmonious. It rings like a gigantic gong, undergoing constant pulsations. "

That is the most interesting quote of the article, to me. Is it picking up these vibrations and amplifying them or is it emitting them? If the latter, then why/how? Does anybody know of similar properties of terrestrial diamonds/carbon?

No, A diamond that large would PANIC jewelers and diamond merchants alike.

Diamonds have absolutely no concrete value on their own... just shiny rocks.

Their inflated price is based on their scarcity.

If humanity suddenly had a moon sized diamond available to it, DeBeers would quickly go bankrupt, and diamonds would no longer be a "Girls Best Friend"

They would be worth pennies per pound, or ton.

If you read the 2001 series by Arther C Clarke, he goes into some detail (in 3001) about the core of Jupiter being compressed carbon, that got blown into orbit when Lucifer was born (the Jovian Star)

He states that humanity began mining the diamond planetoid for CONSTRUCTION materials.

Could you imagine it?

Cities made of diamond?

WOW!

-Edrick

50 light years is obviously too far to harvest anything of any size.

And I take *anything* I read on pravda with a grain of salt, they've published BS before.

And even then it's still a bit tasteless

Pravda have reported on something that is based in factual reality for a change. This massive diamond was discovered years ago and seems to pop up from time to time when a journalist has little to write about...

Astronomers Find a Huge Diamond in Space

PRAVDA Largest diamond in galaxy predicts future of solar system

The first article is 2004 and the Pravda is 2007. You can see where the Pravda journo has pilfered parts of the former What a great job to have!

it always gives me a chuckle when people talk about the scarcity of diamonds. they're on every street corner in america. more common than cheesburgers.

Thought I remembered this story. It was from 2004.

Diamond star thrills astronomers

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hahahaha... I know that American writers are all drunks, I can't imagine what it's like to be in the news room on Monday morning in Russia is like.



pravda.ru ... (truth in russian, lol..)

I think it's alive (and beautiful too!), we buggers should leave it alone!

If you want an answer to that question, you have to look no further than your cell phone, or a pay phone. There is a crystal in there...

I don't get this, what does it mean by largest dimond?