Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" 347
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from the went-to-sea-in-a-sieve dept.
Third Position writes "Oceans of liquid diamond topped with solid 'icebergs' of the precious gems could be on Uranus and Neptune. The first-ever detailed research into the melting point of diamond found it behaves like water during melting and freezing — with its solid form floating on the liquid. A large diamond ocean on one or both of the planets could provide an explanation for an oddity they both share: unlike Earth, they do not have magnetic poles that match up with their geographical poles." The article doesn't mention what the pressures might be like in these outer-planets environments, but the researchers found that liquefying diamond requires 40 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level.
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
obligatory uranus joke (Score:5, Funny)
"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond."
-- Ferris Bueller
Article is clearly misinformed (Score:2, Funny)
There's no way this is even remotely possible.
I mean, diamonds are rare, aren't they? You know it, I know it, and De Beers know it.
Calling it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:2, Funny)
It's a wonderful planet (Score:5, Funny)
Utopia Project (Score:2, Funny)
It's the SKIES that are made of diamonds.
Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi (Score:5, Funny)
>if there were a mountain of gold bars on the moon it would not be economical to go get some.
Why not? All you have to do is get there, ie. the cost of the rocket and fuel, plus training and supplies.
Then once you're up there, all you have to do is throw all the gold back down.
Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
So now /.ers can tell their "girlfriends" that if you want a diamond, you're free to look for one in Uranus?
I'm sorry langelgjm but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all...
Re:Finally (Score:5, Funny)
So now /.ers can tell their "girlfriends" that if you want a diamond, you're free to look for one in Uranus?
Worth a shot...
...and now I have a black eye to explain to my boss. Damn you, science!
"Hey, baby! Answer me this: What's the hardest thing known to man, and you can find lots of it way up in Uranus?"
*oof*
Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi (Score:5, Funny)
Then once you're up there, all you have to do is throw all the gold back down.
Well, you'd have to "throw" it down slowly enough so that it doesn't become a molten, white-hot projectile and embed itself several miles in the ground when it crash-lands.
Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, that's one way to get the space race movi (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
It's not 2620 yet. Go back to the future at 88mph why don't you.
Girlfriends (Score:1, Funny)
I was going to reply that Slashdotters don't have girlfriends, but you had to go ahead and put quotation marks around it.
You have won this time langeljgm!!!
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Only to rename it into something much worse... Urectum
Let's get one thing straight.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good riddance (Score:2, Funny)
I would have formulated it as:
"space diamonds... the most romantic diamond yet. Shit that's been floating in Uranus for years can now be on your hand - FOREVER."
but that's just me.
Re:Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Incontinentia
Re:Finally (Score:4, Funny)
How is the starship Enterprise like toilet paper?
Both circle Uranus picking up Klingons.