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P: 1/7/2007 11:07:02 PM
Ries Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,204 Last Post: 6/17/2009 Member Since: 1/20/2005	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm Diamond star thrills astronomers: By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor A diamond that is almost forever Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Posted: 1/7/2007 11:07:02 PM

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P: 1/8/2007 3:37:14 AM
RockDoc Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,509 Last Post: 6/17/2007 Member Since: 8/16/2000	I went to read the BBC article. The graphic posted there is hilarious. The inside core of the diamond is already FACETED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it's shape is round??? Wonder how much funding we paid of our tax dollars to learn this info. While the technical analysis could be factual, the existence of a faceted diamond core is ridiculous. It is interesting that the study claims the core is 'mostly carbon"..... wonder what other elements are present that might affect the color? Considering this the core being colorless is highly improbable. Maybe the right question is - Did Whiteflash cut this stone? Rockdoc Bill Leiberum 1948-2007 Thanks for everything and Rest In Peace,Bill.
Posted: 1/8/2007 3:37:14 AM

P: 1/8/2007 7:31:53 AM
kenny Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,817 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	Would it fit under the Diamond Dock?
Posted: 1/8/2007 7:31:53 AM

P: 1/8/2007 10:33:59 AM
RockDoc Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,509 Last Post: 6/17/2007 Member Since: 8/16/2000	Date: 1/8/2007 7:31:53 AM Author: kenny Would it fit under the Diamond Dock? Or imagine the sarin machine size.... and H&A Viewer. Maybe Garry can make an IS for it. ROFL Rockdoc Bill Leiberum 1948-2007 Thanks for everything and Rest In Peace,Bill.
Posted: 1/8/2007 10:33:59 AM

P: 1/8/2007 9:56:40 PM
JohnQuixote Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,212 Last Post: 5/24/2008 Member Since: 9/9/2004	Fortunately NASA is in Houston too. Prepare the Hubble H&A viewer. John __________________________ John Pollard Whiteflash Director of Education 2004-2007
Posted: 1/8/2007 9:56:40 PM

P: 1/8/2007 10:04:13 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 1/8/2007 9:56:40 PM Author: JohnQuixote Fortunately NASA is in Houston too. Prepare the Hubble H&A viewer. LOL! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 1/8/2007 10:04:13 PM

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