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Astronomers discover planet made of diamond
Reuters.com ^ | 8/25/11 | Ben Hirschler - Reuters

Posted on 08/25/2011 12:32:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

I’m sure Michelle O’ is bugging BO to have it set into a ring. It would go well with her $500 tennis shoes.


21 posted on 08/25/2011 12:48:37 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Northern Yankee
I think "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" is more suitable.
22 posted on 08/25/2011 12:51:15 PM PDT by toast
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To: GeronL

Would that make you a miner for a heart of gold?


23 posted on 08/25/2011 12:55:11 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: TheOldLady

Martha Jones: What do you think it’s going to be like in Utopia?
Creet: My Mum used to say the sky was made of diamonds.


24 posted on 08/25/2011 12:57:14 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: NormsRevenge
Correction, the planet is made of walnuts.


25 posted on 08/25/2011 12:57:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: NormsRevenge

Picture of January Jones as Emma Frost in diamond form coming in 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . .


26 posted on 08/25/2011 1:03:43 PM PDT by Jim Hill
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To: NormsRevenge

No one seems to find it odd that astronomers claim to ‘know’ that some planet billions of miles away is made of, yet....

The aren’t sure what the core of the Earth is made of, nor even what is below the crust, and why it behaves as it does.

They don’t know what creatures exist at the bottom of the world’s oceans, and have kept discovering new creatures in environments they SAID were totally UNINHABITABLE by any life form.

They can’t predict the weather for more than a few days, nor can they predict earthquakes or volcanoes.

They keep revising their estimate of the MARCELLUS SHALE contents wildly UP and DOWN.

These scientists have absolutely NO EVIDENCE that any of the ‘carbon’ is in the form of diamond crystals. It is something they ‘conjectured’ and that was picked up by the media as a way to spark interest in the subject.

Remember, last week, IIRC, we had discovered the DARKEST PLANET in the Universe. (Which is a wild claim considering the fact that based on current theory of the formation of the Universe, there is a large portion of the Universe which is, and will FOREVER be, beyond our perception, due to the speed of light).

NOW, this does not mean that there is NOT a planet made mostly or even entirely of diamonds. But for scientists to claim they have found one, is seemingly status quo lately for scientists who find that wild speculation is what sells ‘print’.


27 posted on 08/25/2011 1:06:38 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: NormsRevenge

Planets are a girl’s best friend?


28 posted on 08/25/2011 1:06:38 PM PDT by mitch5501 (My guitar wants to kill your momma!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Another case in point.

"Pulsars are tiny, dead neutron stars that are only around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in diameter and spin hundreds of times a second, emitting beams of radiation. "

Dead, huh?

29 posted on 08/25/2011 1:09:37 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: Larry Lucido

I think gold prices on that world would be very low. lol.


30 posted on 08/25/2011 1:12:00 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder if a gal named lucy is up there...


31 posted on 08/25/2011 1:20:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: NormsRevenge

32 posted on 08/25/2011 1:21:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: UCANSEE2
NOW, this does not mean that there is NOT a planet made mostly or even entirely of diamonds. But for scientists to claim they have found one, is seemingly status quo lately for scientists who find that wild speculation is what sells ‘print’.

Good post. I'm with you on this, like the recent report of space aliens concerned about global warming.

33 posted on 08/25/2011 1:36:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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Tempting, but you just can’t take all the liberals and blast them all into space.

That was going to be your ‘ball of garbage’, right?


34 posted on 08/25/2011 1:50:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Inyo-Mono
like the recent report of space aliens concerned about global warming.

Yeah, but we know that is true, because....ah... it's on the internet. (/s)


35 posted on 08/26/2011 9:51:58 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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but you just can’t take all the liberals and blast them all into space.

Yeah. Not enough ships and fuel. However, providing those resources would be a good way to stimulate the economy.

36 posted on 08/26/2011 9:54:44 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: toast

I like it!


37 posted on 08/27/2011 6:25:40 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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