A while back I was discussing cosmology with some reddit fedora-tippers and told them that somewhere out there was a planet made of diamond and Jesus said I could have it. Naturally this claim was mocked, but then NASA found one. I was like, sweet. Now all I have to do is go get it.
HA. Are you the other guy who read that book when it came out 25 years ago? Clarke called it "the ultimate jest" or something like that. The funny thing is that diamond is only diamond if it exists at STP. If you programmed a monolith to remove a kg of Jupiter's core and place it somewhere at the surface of Tycho Crater, would it still be diamond?
lmao, I am the other guy! I remember my family bringing me to some thing that a kid was supposed to love, but instead I sat on the blanket on the grass and read that, waiting for the thing that they were trying to get me into to end.
Not by any stretch the greatest scifi novel, and honestly even then I was picking at the inconsistencies with the previous books in the series, but I'm glad to have read it.
I read 2010, and then 3001 came out. I told my mother that the book was dragging on and on, and she told me that Clarke was old and that someone had probably paid him a lot of money to write a book that he was uninterested in writing. Small world. They should have subtitled it "Frank Poole's Thousand Year Hospital Stay" or something like that.
It rains diamonds the size of cars on Uranus (no joke intended). Carbon crystals are not rare. They are only expensive because Debeers controls the market and artificially inflates the price.
Yeah, there's lots of cool stuff being forged in the crucibles of the stars. I figured it was a pretty safe bet, based in science more than faith, I just like fucking with the redditards.
A while back I was discussing cosmology with some reddit fedora-tippers and told them that somewhere out there was a planet made of diamond and Jesus said I could have it. Naturally this claim was mocked, but then NASA found one. I was like, sweet. Now all I have to do is go get it.
Thats probably what Musk has been up to and why the newly installed leaders administration shut that shit down immediately...
They better not be fucking with my rock. It's not my fault that God loves me more. Maybe next time they won't be so mean.
"Somewhere" there's a planet made of Diamond? Brother, it's called "Jupiter," and I could point to it right now.
Nah, it's gonna be some sort of dense material at its core, but I doubt diamond. I'm just referencing 3001: The Final Odyssey.
But yeah, Diamond Planet is all yours, man.
HA. Are you the other guy who read that book when it came out 25 years ago? Clarke called it "the ultimate jest" or something like that. The funny thing is that diamond is only diamond if it exists at STP. If you programmed a monolith to remove a kg of Jupiter's core and place it somewhere at the surface of Tycho Crater, would it still be diamond?
lmao, I am the other guy! I remember my family bringing me to some thing that a kid was supposed to love, but instead I sat on the blanket on the grass and read that, waiting for the thing that they were trying to get me into to end.
Not by any stretch the greatest scifi novel, and honestly even then I was picking at the inconsistencies with the previous books in the series, but I'm glad to have read it.
I read 2010, and then 3001 came out. I told my mother that the book was dragging on and on, and she told me that Clarke was old and that someone had probably paid him a lot of money to write a book that he was uninterested in writing. Small world. They should have subtitled it "Frank Poole's Thousand Year Hospital Stay" or something like that.
It rains diamonds the size of cars on Uranus (no joke intended). Carbon crystals are not rare. They are only expensive because Debeers controls the market and artificially inflates the price.
Yeah, there's lots of cool stuff being forged in the crucibles of the stars. I figured it was a pretty safe bet, based in science more than faith, I just like fucking with the redditards.