Neptune and Uranus may have diamond oceans

[T.Neo]

Buy Cubic Zirconia and hope she isn't an amateur gemologist. :rofl:

 

[vonneuman]

Buy Cubic Zirconia and hope she isn't an amateur gemologist. :rofl:

:rofl::lol::rofl::lol::rofl::lol::rofl::lol:

 

[Ghostrider]

*ahem*...

Hey, don't blame me. Fredric Brown wrote it.

 

[T.Neo]

Hey, don't blame me. Fredric Brown wrote it.

As a pale-skinned person I am most offended!

 

[Ghostrider]

As a pale-skinned person I am most offended!

Not as a scale-less person? Anyway, you can't be paler than me. I'm almost at the glow-in-the-dark stage of paleness.

 

[vonneuman]

..... I'm almost at the glow-in-the-dark stage of paleness.

That is usually nuklear waste related.

 

[T.Neo]

I'm almost at the glow-in-the-dark stage of paleness.

Get some sun.

 

[cjp]

Am I the only one who goes :WTF: on 'liquid diamond'?

I thought diamond is a solid phase of carbon. How would liquid diamond be different from liquid graphite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_basic_phase_diagram.png

 

[T.Neo]

Am I the only one who goes :WTF: on 'liquid diamond'?

I actually had that thought too. But I was too busy trying to dispel nonsense about liquid hydrogen beings...

 

[Ghostrider]

Get some sun.

Are you out of your mind? I should travel some 150'000'000 km to a darn G2 star and take a sample with a magnetic bottle only to improve on cosmetics? Not even Max Factor would go to that lengths.

 

[JamesG]

I actually had that thought too. But I was too busy trying to dispel nonsense about liquid hydrogen beings...

Humph! Liquid diamond beings that breathe liquid hydrogen. Get it right!

 

[Urwumpe]

Am I the only one who goes :WTF: on 'liquid diamond'

No, you are not. I also still wonder how to get a liquid crystal of carbon, which is not graphite based.

According to this:
http://lbruno.home.cern.ch/lbruno/documents/Bibliography/LHC_Note_78.pdf

There could be a possible metallic state of carbon, which would be possibly a liquid metal at VERY high pressures and VERY high temperatures.

 

[Ghostrider]

That would make for the most expensive LCD TV set in the Solar System.

 

[Andy44]

I always thought liquid carbon was what the gremlins poured into my rifle whenever I sit down to clean it.

 

[supersonic]

How would we get there in a reasonable amount of time anyway?:shrug:

 

[statickid]

people would totally buy neptune and uranus diamonds for WAAAAAAY more than what they are worth, way more than earth diamonds, simply because they are from space. just think- we buy chunks of iron and bits of rock from space for thousands of dollars! :lollerskates:

 

[supersonic]

people would totally buy neptune and uranus diamonds for WAAAAAAY more than what they are worth, way more than earth diamonds, simply because they are from space. just think- we buy chunks of iron and bits of rock from space for thousands of dollars! :lollerskates:

That's all true.

 

[RisingFury]

The only way to effectivelly mine the outer planets is to blow their "atmosphere" away and gradually reduce the pressure to the point where our mining equipment wouldn't turn into the goo, that these planets are made up of...

Though eventually we might have the technology to do that, I still wouldn't mess with anything within the solar system, until humanity abandones Earth.

 

[supersonic]

I know that I would not be helping to blow a planets atmosphere any time soon...

 

[T.Neo]

until humanity abandones Earth.

And who says we're going to do that?

And even if Earth becomes a wastebin or nature reserve, there may still be billions of people living in the solar system...