Diamond Oceans

[FranzTyphid]

http://news.discovery.com/space/diamond-oceans-jupiter-uranus.html
This made me very happy when i heard about it.
If you can be arsed reading the link i'll sumarise it.
Basically scientists think that Neptune,Uranus and Jupiter have big seas of liquid diamond.
HOW F##KING COOLS THAT

 

[zauxz]

That is awesome.

And it also just gave a reason for space pirates to exist.

 

[S.R.S.]

The fact that YOU can only read about it doesn't get you down?

 

[Soxafloppin]

Cool brb going to Jupitur.

LOL Diamonds in Uranus.

 

[FranzTyphid]

Cool brb going to Jupitur.

LOL Diamonds in Uranus.

LOL i never noticed that

 

[FactualSquirrel]

Wait, if solid diamond floats on liquid diamond, that means that liquid diamond is denser than diamond.

Fuckin' hell.

 

[gim73]

Not very cool at all. Sounds like it's pretty hot and under very high pressure. Any attempts to actually mine these diamonds would meet with failure, as there are no materials that can actually survive the magical triple point of a freaking diamond, the hardest known material we know.

We might dream of someday harvesting our gas giants, but the truth is the gas giants are a more hostile environment than earth ever will be. We have barely even scratched the crust of our own planet. The hellish environment that you are happy is producing diamonds would kill you so fast that you would be destroyed before the first impulse of pain could be sent.

 

[delet]

Not very cool at all. Sounds like it's pretty hot and under very high pressure. Any attempts to actually mine these diamonds would meet with failure, as there are no materials that can actually survive the magical triple point of a freaking diamond, the hardest known material we know.

We might dream of someday harvesting our gas giants, but the truth is the gas giants are a more hostile environment than earth ever will be. We have barely even scratched the crust of our own planet. The hellish environment that you are happy is producing diamonds would kill you so fast that you would be destroyed before the first impulse of pain could be sent.

That sounds like a nice way to die... And if you survive, you get diamonds! Win-win.

OT: Slight Meh. Tell me once they've made diamond bullets that get shot out of diamond guns.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Not very cool at all. Sounds like it's pretty hot and under very high pressure. Any attempts to actually mine these diamonds would meet with failure, as there are no materials that can actually survive the magical triple point of a freaking diamond, the hardest known material we know.

We might dream of someday harvesting our gas giants, but the truth is the gas giants are a more hostile environment than earth ever will be. We have barely even scratched the crust of our own planet. The hellish environment that you are happy is producing diamonds would kill you so fast that you would be destroyed before the first impulse of pain could be sent.

Until we develop a particle transporter that is..

[sub]MEAH HA HA HA HA!!![/sub]

 

[Omikron009]

Diamonds are just carbon. I imagine the theoretical liquid diamond oceans wouldn't be the sparkling heavenly seas most of you are imagining. Still freaking cool though.

 

[Xeros]

This is the coolest thing I've heard about diamond since I heard that dead people can be turned into them.

 

[gim73]

Not very cool at all. Sounds like it's pretty hot and under very high pressure. Any attempts to actually mine these diamonds would meet with failure, as there are no materials that can actually survive the magical triple point of a freaking diamond, the hardest known material we know.

We might dream of someday harvesting our gas giants, but the truth is the gas giants are a more hostile environment than earth ever will be. We have barely even scratched the crust of our own planet. The hellish environment that you are happy is producing diamonds would kill you so fast that you would be destroyed before the first impulse of pain could be sent.

Until we develop a particle transporter that is..

[sub]MEAH HA HA HA HA!!![/sub]

Uh, yeah, that's a smart idea. Let's take Something that has been compressed and heated beyond our imagination and transport it out of it's natural environment and see what will happen.

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Ahhh, man, I just broke my transporter and fried the region because the heat it brought with it transfered to the gases around it and caused a massive shock wave!

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Not very cool at all. Sounds like it's pretty hot and under very high pressure. Any attempts to actually mine these diamonds would meet with failure, as there are no materials that can actually survive the magical triple point of a freaking diamond, the hardest known material we know.

We might dream of someday harvesting our gas giants, but the truth is the gas giants are a more hostile environment than earth ever will be. We have barely even scratched the crust of our own planet. The hellish environment that you are happy is producing diamonds would kill you so fast that you would be destroyed before the first impulse of pain could be sent.

Until we develop a particle transporter that is..

[sub]MEAH HA HA HA HA!!![/sub]

Uh, yeah, that's a smart idea. Let's take Something that has been compressed and heated beyond our imagination and transport it out of it's natural environment and see what will happen.

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Ahhh, man, I just broke my transporter and fried the region because the heat it brought with it transfered to the gases around it and caused a massive shock wave!

Until we create a heat containment shield that is..
[sub]MEAH HA HA HA HA^2!!![/sub]

 

[Dorian]

BARBRA!
Get me... NASA.​

Seriously. If, IF, we can get some spacecraft there to harvest some, can you IMAGINE how the economy will boost for the nation that gets it?
Diamonds would probably lose a bit of value, but it'd also be more practical to use them for other things!

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[GundamSentinel]

Wait, if solid diamond floats on liquid diamond, that means that liquid diamond is denser than diamond.

Fuckin' hell.

Doesn't make sense. Only water has that property. That would mean diamond with a lot of flaws, as diamond is in itself a very tightly packed carbon form. Also, if there's so much diamond, wouldn't the price drop spectacularly? Also, if graphite solidifies, it doesn't automatically mean it becomes diamond again, even with the right pressure and temperature. Maybe in a small scale lab experiment, but on a planet, no way. That article is full of BS...

 

[Asturiel]

So...
You mean...

I can go take a bath on there, go out in space to dry, and be Diamond Man?

I CALL DIBS!

If you dont die first then yes, yes you can.

OT: Also interesting, too bad for now the gas giants would own us stupid monekys for trying.

 

[ribonuge]

My Diamonds! *In screechy lady voice*

 

[FranzTyphid]

I'm so gonna be a space pirate.

 

[KillerH]

all I can say is nice