Syndy/3 on 28/8/2011 at 09:11
I bet it's just another Turing castle. My primer told me so.
june gloom on 28/8/2011 at 10:37
Okay, so who found T-Pain's bling stash?
Ulukai on 28/8/2011 at 11:36
Ok, now we got a reason to build a Nostromo.
Sg3 on 28/8/2011 at 17:35
My first thought was that it's probably partially made up of some element we don't know about. Not being a scientist, I don't know if there's any way to figure that out without being there.
Rug Burn Junky on 28/8/2011 at 17:42
For Public Enemy fans: Be afraid.
Goldmoon Dawn on 28/8/2011 at 17:46
Quote Posted by Azaran
What's also amazing about the diamond planet is apparently it has oxygen :wot:
Can you imagine? A possibly habitable planet made of diamond....:o
Almost. The universal occurance of life on Earth is brought to you via its vast quantity of water.
demagogue on 28/8/2011 at 18:20
I don't know about "vast" amounts being as important as just "liquid" water itself, & enough around to do the job, not that I'm a xenobiologist.
The other thing that this reminds me of is that speech from the dad in Photopia. Wasn't one of the planets that could be somewhere out there made of diamonds?
quinch on 28/8/2011 at 19:27
Doesn't Jupiter have a giant diamond at it's centre? In Arthur C Clarke's 2061 there's so much diamond lying about after Jupiter's conversion into a star that they were able to build a big transport ring around the earth.
So you all you need to do is have some catastrophic star event that blows off the gas and hey-presto! But what though..?
I hope the first explorers of such a world get to go in wearing space-suits made of real fur while drinking Martinis through tubes.
Goldmoon Dawn on 28/8/2011 at 20:51
Quote Posted by demagogue
I don't know about "vast" amounts being as important as just "liquid" water itself, & enough around to do the job, not that I'm a xenobiologist.
I suppose it is all indeed relative to the perspective with which one applies the term "vast". For example, using the perspective of me as a single human being, the amount of water it would take to sustain every living organism on Earth would seem quite vast.
Xorak on 28/8/2011 at 22:18
Quote Posted by quinch
Doesn't Jupiter have a giant diamond at it's centre? In Arthur C Clarke's 2061 there's so much diamond lying about after Jupiter's conversion into a star that they were able to build a big transport ring around the earth.
If I'm not mistaken, the mantle of Jupiter is said to be comprised of layers of metals and rock, with the innermost core made of iron and nickel, like Earth. But it's probable that there's a substantial amount of diamond kicking around in the rock, not unlike here.
Quote Posted by Goldmoon Dawn
Almost. The universal occurance of life on Earth is brought to you via its vast quantity of water..
I see it at one higher level, that without precise amounts of sunlight and heat, life (as we know it, I guess) cannot grow and water is basically useless. Mars has ice on it, but this can't be turned into life-using water because the planet is too far away from the sun. At least at this stage of Mar's existence anyways. Maybe there was life when water once covered it, and the planet was still heated from within.
