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.
"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.