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Astronomers Discover Planet Made of Diamond

JONJO THE MISER · 2011-08-29 16:50:22

In news that will surely bring a smile to many a jewler astronomers have discovered a planet made of Diamond. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/29/astronomers-discover-planet-made-diamond/?test=faces

29-08-2011 4:50pm

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In news that will surely bring a smile to many a jewler astronomers have discovered a planet made of Diamond.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/29/astronomers-discover-planet-made-diamond/?test=faces

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#2 29-08-2011 4:56pm

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Does it have a ring around it?

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#3 29-08-2011 4:57pm

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How hard can that have been?

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#4 29-08-2011 4:57pm

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*BLING*

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#5 29-08-2011 4:58pm

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Why does the star look like battling sperm?

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#6 29-08-2011 5:01pm

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it was just a really large piece of coal that superman crushed.

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#7 29-08-2011 5:03pm

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JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

In news that will surely bring a smile to many a jewler astronomers have discovered a planet made of Diamond.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/29/astronomers-discover-planet-made-diamond/?test=faces

On that planet, precious jewelry would consist of stones of shale!

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#8 29-08-2011 5:40pm

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even if they could get to it, how in jesus' name would they mine it???

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#9 29-08-2011 5:44pm

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FatherLen wrote: »

even if they could get to it, how in jesus' name would they mine it???

We get the lads from Armageddon.

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#10 29-08-2011 5:44pm

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FatherLen wrote: »

even if they could get to it, how in jesus' name would they mine it???

Blast it with:
????????? HA HA ?????????????

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#11 29-08-2011 5:48pm

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JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

In news that will surely bring a smile to many a jewler astronomers have discovered a planet made of Diamond.

Not really it just goes to show how common diamond really is and how foolish people are for treating it as a rarity.

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#12 29-08-2011 5:49pm

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JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

In news that will surely bring a smile to many a jewler astronomers have discovered a planet made of Diamond.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/29/astronomers-discover-planet-made-diamond/?test=faces

I clicked on the neutron star link in that article thinking it would take me to the wiki page explaining further what they are, instead it took me to an online jewelery store. Fcukin Fox News for ya!!

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#13 29-08-2011 5:49pm

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JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Astronomers Discover Planet Made of Diamond

Where it began, I can't begin to know when.

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#14 29-08-2011 5:51pm

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If it's on Fox News then you know it's completely accurate.

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#15 29-08-2011 5:51pm

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ScumLord wrote: »

Not really it just goes to show how common diamond really is and how foolish people are for treating it as a rarity.

Yes, the jewellers will be crying because their stock will be worth feck all if anyone ever brings a big chunk of the planet back here.

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#16 29-08-2011 5:53pm

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Sonics2k wrote: »

If it's on Fox News then you know it's completely accurate.

In fairness I think this is actually true, it was posted over in the astronomy forum 3 days ago.

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#17 29-08-2011 5:56pm

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Why are you looking at that god awful, biased Fox 'News' website?

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#18 29-08-2011 6:08pm

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CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Why are you looking at that god awful, biased Fox 'News' website?

For all the science news that's ok with Jesus?

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#19 29-08-2011 6:10pm

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being a space miner would be so fking cool ahh come on future hurry up i want to be mine in space it would be like mining but ......in .....space...

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#20 29-08-2011 6:12pm

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Fox "News" FFS.

You had me believing it for a second.

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#21 29-08-2011 6:15pm

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Lone Stone wrote: »

being a space miner would be so fking cool ahh come on future hurry up i want to be mine in space it would be like mining but ......in .....space...

With it being diamond, less risk of losing the odd Chilean down there, too. Can see right to them.

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#22 29-08-2011 6:20pm

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ejmaztec wrote: »

Yes, the jewellers will be crying because their stock will be worth feck all if anyone ever brings a big chunk of the planet back here.

You know diamonds aren't rare at all right? De Beers just has a global monopoly so they artificially raise prices.

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#23 29-08-2011 6:20pm

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So Neil has finally gone stratispheric!

/bout time.....

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#24 29-08-2011 6:22pm

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Needs to be implemented into Minecraft.

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#25 29-08-2011 6:30pm

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it's gona be the new hot place to buy for every rapper out there.

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#26 29-08-2011 6:34pm

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From 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm

Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

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#27 29-08-2011 6:35pm

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Wheres Richard Branson and hes Virgin Galatic till i take a trip out North South East West
Where the hell is it and does a magnet even work in space

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#28 29-08-2011 6:53pm

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In the grand scheme of the universe this isn't all that surprising really. One very dense lump of carbon in the entirety of space is not that much of a long shot.

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#29 29-08-2011 7:04pm

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"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky."

Who would have guessed this nursery rhyme was a prophecy

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#30 29-08-2011 7:08pm

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so there's still hope of a planet made of cheese wallace!

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#31 29-08-2011 7:09pm

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minidazzler wrote: »

You know diamonds are....

foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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#32 29-08-2011 9:17pm

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Jimmy444 wrote: »

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky."

Who would have guessed this nursery rhyme was a prophecy

T'is actually a quatrain of Nostradamuses.

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