The Diamond Star

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Astrnomers have discovered a former star that has now become a gigantic, 10 billion trillion trillion carats diamond! Our own sun may be headed for a similar fate.

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

 

[dwndrgn]

Egad! Don't let the jewelers know! They'll be setting out in their own homemade spaceships to try and 'harvest' it. Am I the only one who thinks that diamonds are a waste of money unless you need to cut something hard? Sure they're pretty but for heaven's sake, so is an autumn leaf!

Sorry knivesout, that's a little bit off topic. Thanks for the interesting link.

 

[riffraff]

Egad! Don't let the jewelers know! They'll be setting out in their own homemade spaceships to try and 'harvest' it. Am I the only one who thinks that diamonds are a waste of money unless you need to cut something hard? Sure they're pretty but for heaven's sake, so is an autumn leaf!

Sorry knivesout, that's a little bit off topic. Thanks for the interesting link.

yep- I think a nice pile of fresh seville oranges are much prettier- and to me much more useful

 

[Brian G Turner]

Good call - I've been slow with the articles. This is a fun one.