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A Diamond the Size of Earth - is this Jupiter's core?
www.guide-to-the-universe.com ^ | 12/28/2018 - Undated | Staff

Posted on 12/28/2018 10:47:49 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 12/28/2018 10:47:49 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The price of diamonds just took a precipitous drop.


2 posted on 12/28/2018 10:50:00 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Red Badger

No.


3 posted on 12/28/2018 10:53:18 AM PST by fruser1
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A diamond is a piece of crap stone in the first place. It’s uniqueness is that it comes from 1 area of the planet and is controlled by one family. “Contrived scarcity”


4 posted on 12/28/2018 10:53:44 AM PST by stevecmd
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To: Red Badger
liquid hydrogen, which can only exist under tremendous pressures

Not so.

5 posted on 12/28/2018 10:56:23 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Of course this is all theory...


6 posted on 12/28/2018 10:58:19 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: Red Badger

The pressure would force diamond to be many times denser than those on earth, and once exposed to normal pressures would probably explode. So not only forever beyond our reach, but completely useless. Nice to imagine, though.


7 posted on 12/28/2018 11:00:27 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Liquid metallic hydrogen is probably what the article meant. We still can't produce the pressure necessary to duplicate it on Earth.
8 posted on 12/28/2018 11:02:45 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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Agreed.


9 posted on 12/28/2018 11:03:28 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Red Badger

That’s going to need quite a large setting.


10 posted on 12/28/2018 11:05:42 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Red Badger

I think Isaac Asimov speculated a diamond core in a book of his from either the late 50s or 1960s.


11 posted on 12/28/2018 11:06:16 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: aquila48

In other news:

DeBeers buys Jupiter.


12 posted on 12/28/2018 11:06:18 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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So where does all this carbon come from?

Why would it all meet at Jupiter's center?

ML/NJ

13 posted on 12/28/2018 11:07:28 AM PST by ml/nj (.)
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Indeed.. that’s a LOT of carbon.

Like, an unimaginable number. And for that carbon to be in one form ? Highly unlikely.


14 posted on 12/28/2018 11:09:17 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Red Badger

Maybe dilithium crystals?


15 posted on 12/28/2018 11:12:18 AM PST by logitech
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I call dibs!


16 posted on 12/28/2018 11:13:00 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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I’ve read that Saturn’s moon Titan has more oil and gas thousands of times more than all of the reserves on Earth combined.


17 posted on 12/28/2018 11:14:43 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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Heavier elements sink...............


18 posted on 12/28/2018 11:14:59 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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And they don’t have Global warming!...................


19 posted on 12/28/2018 11:16:12 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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“So where does all this carbon come from?”

Excess US emissions, silly.


20 posted on 12/28/2018 11:17:40 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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