The Galaxy's Largest Diamond 364
unassimilatible writes "The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reports 'to impress your favorite lady this Valentine's Day, get her the galaxy's largest diamond.' A newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is 2,500 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros. A cheesy, unrealistic simulation is also available. AP has a story as well."
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
DeBeers (Score:5, Funny)
Oh my God... (Score:5, Funny)
mitch
thank god for that high res pic (Score:5, Funny)
Just in time for Valentine's Day (Score:5, Funny)
This getting married thing is getting more and more complicated each year.
Woo. (Score:4, Funny)
I'd still get nagged... (Score:2, Funny)
"You dont love me...."
*sigh*
on closer inspection (Score:5, Funny)
Announcing... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Formation (Score:5, Funny)
Wouldn't matter (Score:5, Funny)
It wouldn't matter if someone went up and brought the diamond back. As soon as you send it to the jewelers to be mapped and evaluated, they'll just swap it out for another, lesser quality, diamond without you even knowing.
I say leave it in place. We could shave off the first 30 miles of top layer and shine a giant laser at it for the largest intergalactic network ever known to man. Since it would take light 50 years to travel to the planet, Half-Life 2 should be just about ready to play by then.Re:Largest diamond? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't allow you to do that. It would jepordize the mission.
...galaxy's largest diamond. (Score:5, Funny)
I hear that Tau Ceti is bragging that they bought a larger one.
But I'll bet it's not flawless (Score:5, Funny)
So, don't overpay for it, no matter what the salesman says about size mattering...
TSG
Re:Formation (Score:4, Funny)
So maybe its a chunk of a planet that got creamed by a really big rock.
Or, more likely, its a rejected engagement ring on some faraway planet.
Female Alien: Only 10 billion trillion trillion carats?! You OBVIOUSLY don't love me that much if thats all you can afford! Throw it into space, I don't want it!! *stomps off*
Weird Shit from Outer Space we'd like to see... (Score:5, Funny)
- A twenty-billion tonne meteor shaped exactly like the Hand of God, heading straight for Ur^h^h the planet Earth.
- Life on Mars, complete with funky trance tunes and dayglo noserings.
- A bong the size of NYC, containing twenty billion tonnes of a material that under examination appears to be chemically identical to Tunisian purple haze. Said bong is orbiting the Sun quite close to Mars and already the petition to send a manned mission to Mars has collected five hundred and thirty million signatures. Most of them say, "send me, send me!" Others just say, "Dude, that's too much!"
- A radio beacon embedded in the heart of a small black rock circling one of Pluto's moon. After the rock is detected and retrieved in 2032 at incredible expense, and cracked open following ten years of drilling, it is found to contain a copy of MAD Magazine from circa 1972 and a small piece of paper with the words "regular delivery to this address, please" on it.
- The discovery, in a deep crater on Mars, of an underground passage leading to a huge room filled with silent, brooding machines. After long study and careful analysis of the patterns and markings, we activate one of the machines. Immediately the whole room comes to life and a small black hole appears in its center. The Martian surface starts to slide into the black hole, then the entire planet, and finally the whole Solar System. A team of two plutonaughts watch the scene from the far boundaries of the Plutonian orbit, and as the last specks are absorbed into the now huge and pulsating black hole, they read, in huge flashing letters, the text "ZIPPING COMPLETE. NOW REFORMATTING MEDIA... 1% COMPLETE, PLEASE WAIT."
I'm reaching high up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just in time for Valentine's Day (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um...not quite (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Woo. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if you stop reading slashdot maybe your computer won't notice. :)
Valentines Day? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes but can fedex or UPS deliver it for Valentines day, any geek could get laid with one of these.
Beware (Score:5, Funny)
Well well (Score:3, Funny)
I for one, welcome our new diamond overlords.
Giant Diamond Asteroid on crash course with earth (Score:3, Funny)
Same thing here! (Score:5, Funny)
For my girlfriend to get her diamond gift from me, she had to do the same.
Blow...very hard rock...
DeBeers? (Score:3, Funny)
and now... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Same thing here! (Score:5, Funny)
Comics (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Numbers (Score:5, Funny)
Ugh! (Score:2, Funny)
Couldn't this story have waited one more day until after Valentine's? To raise expectations last minute like that is just...well...brutal.
sev
why it's complicated (Score:4, Funny)
That's why it's so complicated. You think having more than 1 girlfriend is difficult to swing? - better not try the "another wife every year" thing.
-tid242
Re:2010 : Odyssey Two (Score:5, Funny)
Dammit! (Score:3, Funny)
"Cheesy, unrealistic simulation also available" (Score:1, Funny)
"A cheesy, unrealistic simulation is also available."
As plenipotentiary for the planet Zirconia, I must object in the strongest terms possible to your casting aspersions on my fair planet.
sell it on ebay! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:closer (Score:3, Funny)
It's rumored that GWAR originally came from the core of Jupiter before the Master sent them, the Scumdogs of the Universe, to an iceberg in Antactica.
Re:I hope this is a troll (Score:2, Funny)
Strom Thurman?
Re:Bugus science at it again (Score:5, Funny)
Jealousy. If there's a bigger diamond out there, someone's girlfriend/wife is sure to find out/know about it. "Hrmph. Well, I guess it's nice, but I hear Centaraus has a 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond!"
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Numbers (Score:3, Funny)