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A girl's best friend?

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Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond.

The rocky planet, called '55 Cancri e', orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18 hours.

A diamond bigger than Earth? | Reuters
  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    Actual worth: about $12.50

    Will be mined and sold for:

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  • Profile picture of the author gpimienta
    OMG that is super amazing. I wonder if one day we will be able to live on such a planet.

    What a dream come true
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    I hear the De Beer's family is building a rocket as we speak...
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Don't get too excited yet - just because it's diamond doesn't mean that it's gem quality diamond. Industrial diamonds aren't all that gorgeous. However - it says there is a sea of daimond (liquid diamond) with diaomond bergs floating in it. Can't remember where I read that- it was a year ago. Now if that is true, I'd really like to see that one.
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  • Profile picture of the author zimo
    I watched a documentary on blood diamonds. Any woman who watches that movie and still wants a diamond ring is a monster. Having said that, they are all diamond hungry monsters.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
      Originally Posted by zimo View Post

      I watched a documentary on blood diamonds. Any woman who watches that movie and still wants a diamond ring is a monster. Having said that, they are all diamond hungry monsters.
      You're going to regret that in:

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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Okay, I'll oblige you, Dan.

      Originally Posted by zimo View Post

      I watched a documentary on blood diamonds. Any woman who watches that movie and still wants a diamond ring is a monster. Having said that, they are all diamond hungry monsters.
      When I want a piece of jewelry, I go out in the field and find my OWN stones. You have a problem with that? If you want to call names - - call me something deservingly original and don't even start to lump me in with everyone else with the same anatomy.

      Also - Blood Diamonds? I know a lot of diamond miners and there is no torture, child labor, or anything of the sort involved. If there is a mine where that is not the truth - don't buy stones from that particular mine.

      Originally Posted by MoneyMagnetMagnate View Post

      Maybe they started out as coal people, and evolved over eons into diamond people...
      Um............diamonds start out as Graphite, not coal.
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      • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
        Originally Posted by HeySal View Post


        Um............diamonds start out as Graphite, not coal.
        What a Talulah :p...are u kiddin? I seen Superman do it lots of times...and he wouldn't lie to me :rolleyes:
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        • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
          Originally Posted by MoneyMagnetMagnate View Post

          What a Talulah :p...are u kiddin? I seen Superman do it lots of times...and he wouldn't lie to me :rolleyes:
          Which Superman? The recent Kryptonian god version, or the earlier version who stood still while bullets bounced off his chest, but ducked when the crook threw the gun at him?


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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    A huge diamond custom cut in the shape of cherished bedside accoutrements...
    this would be, 'A girl's best friend' ...
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    For all that to be true, wouldn't the atmospheric pressure have to be ENORMOUS? So a person couldn't survive there, even if everything else were perfect.

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    • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      For all that to be true, wouldn't the atmospheric pressure have to be ENORMOUS? So a person couldn't survive there, even if everything else were perfect.

      Steve
      Oh, there you go getting all technical again...can't ya just let a girl dream? :rolleyes: :p
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    • Profile picture of the author SteveSRS
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      For all that to be true, wouldn't the atmospheric pressure have to be ENORMOUS? So a person couldn't survive there, even if everything else were perfect.

      Steve
      That and it's not exactly around the corner, the speed around the sun (for us 1 year) for that planet is just 18 hours which makes it kinda hard to land on and on top of that the temperatures are well hotter then hell (that + the pressure is indeed needed to create diamonds )
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by SteveSRS View Post

        That and it's not exactly around the corner, the speed around the sun (for us 1 year) for that planet is just 18 hours which makes it kinda hard to land on and on top of that the temperatures are well hotter then hell (that + the pressure is indeed needed to create diamonds )
        Well, the temperature could probably be lower if the pressure were higher. If the pressure were lower, and the temperature were high, the coal would probably just turn to ash. But, YEAH, I was just talking about ONE thing. AND, at a 18 hours for a year, the pressure and temperature are likely unstable. I wonder how long a day is. Still, the year is pretty bad.

        For those that don't know what I mean, a year is the total tie for a complete orbit. The day is the time for a complete revolution about the axis on the orbit. A day could be shorter or longer, and a bigger planet would magnify the effect.

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        • Profile picture of the author Kurt
          Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

          Well, the temperature could probably be lower if the pressure were higher. If the pressure were lower, and the temperature were high, the coal would probably just turn to ash. But, YEAH, I was just talking about ONE thing. AND, at a 18 hours for a year, the pressure and temperature are likely unstable. I wonder how long a day is. Still, the year is pretty bad.

          For those that don't know what I mean, a year is the total tie for a complete orbit. The day is the time for a complete revolution about the axis on the orbit. A day could be shorter or longer, and a bigger planet would magnify the effect.

          Steve
          No it couldn't. Thermodynamics 101 states that the higher the pressure, the higher the temperature. Therefore, if you lower the temperature, you also lower the pressure.

          Plus, if diamonds are a girl's best friend, I'll take dogs as man's best friend any day:

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            Plus, if diamonds are a girl's best friend, I'll take dogs as man's best friend any day:


            Kurt, that's an awesome vid!
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            • Profile picture of the author Lynette Crase
              Originally Posted by zimo View Post

              I watched a documentary on blood diamonds. Any woman who watches that movie and still wants a diamond ring is a monster. Having said that, they are all diamond hungry monsters.
              Why would you say such a stupid thing?


              Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

              If you want to call names - - call me something deservingly original and don't even start to lump me in with everyone else with the same anatomy.
              Well said, Sal. Totally agree with you.


              Originally Posted by Riptor View Post

              Plus, if diamonds are a girl's best friend, I'll take dogs as man's best friend any day
              I'd rather have a dog than a diamond any day.
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              • Profile picture of the author bihosh
                Originally Posted by Lynette Crase View Post

                Why would you say such a stupid thing?




                Well, said Sal. Totally agree with you.




                I'd rather have a dog than a diamond any day.

                I also watched the Blood Diamond movie. I surprised! I believe, there is no one girl you can get who want Diamond after watch this movie.
                I forward it to my beloved. But she don't want to watch it... lol...
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        • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
          [Edit] Oh wait, silly me. I didn't look at the thread's date until after posting.

          Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

          Well, the temperature could probably be lower if the pressure were higher. If the pressure were lower, and the temperature were high, the coal would probably just turn to ash.
          Wouldn't that require an oxygen atmosphere?

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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    Maybe they started out as coal people, and evolved over eons into diamond people...
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Hogan
    Wow! is that really a planet?
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayo
    Lol...Paul, Bullets bounce off him because his mind was slow and didn't
    tell him to get out of the way fast enough. On the other hand, someone
    throughing a gun at him allowed his mind to say, "Hey Dude, Duck!"...lol
    He was exposed to humans while growing up.

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    PS, I remember the Superman's of the past and present.
    Damn, I'm starting to feel old...
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      PS, I remember the Superman's of the past and present.
      George Reeves was the One True Superman. The rest are all pale imitations.

      At least, that's what my brother tells me...
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  • Profile picture of the author I.M.Retired
    At least, that's what my brother tells me...
    Well, here's what a WF member member tells you, Paul.

    SUPERDOG Rules!!!!


    Since the thread has been hijacked from diamonds to superman, I just thought I'd take the opportunity to throw this in.

    Besides, Superdog Halloween costumes are hot sellers this year.

    http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/22...Spending-Soars

    Americans are expected to spend $370 million on pet costumes this Halloween, according to the National Retail Federation, That's a $40 million jump from last year to outfit collies and pugs, cats and bunnies as Superman, princesses or witches.
    Tad bit more lucrative than diamonds, eh what ol' bean?
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