The Largest Diamond in the Galaxy: 10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carats - Neatorama

Astronomer Travis Metcalfe and colleagues discovered the largest diamond ever floating happily in space:

Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds).
The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter. The stone is located at a distance
of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus.
Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun. Astronomers have already dubbed the space diamond as Lucy in a tribute to the Beatles song ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.’

Link - via Cellar IotD

i think this has the possibility to make space travel more accessible for everyone...there's alot of money up in space.If I had enough money, i'd invest in a company that mined space diamonds! i'd be rich!

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Now how many Africans will die for this diamond?

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First off:

If you were able to find a location to actually mine "space diamonds," they would basically be considered a completely separate precious stone apart from "Earth Diamonds."

They would probably actually devalue Earth diamonds, being considered an even more precious stone.

Think of them as being "Diamonds 2.0" The problem with that idea is that this massive space diamond wasn't mined at all. It's apparently a free-floating mass.

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You would get so laid if you gave that to someone.

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That would be one hell of a present. I traveled 50 light years and got this diamond from what was once the heart of a star!

Oh... you got me a card?

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4000 kilometres in diamater? Wouldn't that make those diamonds pretty cheap? That's assuming we could devise an economical way of getting up there to mine. Oh, well.

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Only DeBeers and the sheeple who listen to them think compressed carbon has any exceptional value.

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we already have the technology to make near-perfect diamonds for a tiny fraction of the cost (both human and as a result of the manufactured short supply) that natural diamonds incur. and there is no way that mining this thing would ever be worth the cost of flying out to it and back. that said, it's a really cool find!

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I think this is cool for sure, however, if ever I had to get a diamond I would get one that was made from somebodies ashes. I think it's called LifeGem or something or other...but I think that would be more memorable than a diamond from a store.

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Anyone have any idea how much this would be worth if it was a mined here on earth? ten quintillion kajillion dollars?

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beneath all of this, Kay Jewlers, Staffords, and Jared are all drooling and rubbing their hands together schemingly. the sad part is that we've already put a monetary value on it. everthing is for sale here on earth. think we should just go ahead and convert to our intergalactic currency?

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It's worth nothing, absolutly nothing. Harvesting that, would devalue diamonds so much that instead of buying gravel for your driveway, you'd use diamonds. The only thing that much diamond would be good for would be industrial uses, same with the asteroid in our system that has the surface area equivalent to texas and contains more prescious metals within 30 meteres of the surface than have ever been or will be harvested on this planet.

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"the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun"

they really should have named it SYD!

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That's cool, but is it gem quality, or the quality used to make industrial tools? Makes a big difference. ;) Still shiny, though. :D

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gooood news everyone!!!

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