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Now there is such a possibility, what do you guys think of the future of mankind? Will this kind of discovery enough to push people toward interplanetary travels? Will the riches of Earth create One Big Corp. to fund space travels to mine rare minerals?

What about a planet made of gold? or oil?

Hell, I am getting ideas just thinking about this...

Slight correction: It isn't made of diamonds, it basically is a giant diamond. (you know.. they think so at least)

So umm 88 years at 1g acceleration if my math is right (though a 4G system would be possible). Sounds profitable. Hopefully in 160 years when someone leaves diamonds are still valuable and aren't all man made. I doubt ion thrusters would hold up, and getting clearance for a Project Orion vehicle is probably hard. Sigh too bad.

I gotta imagine that there's issues harvesting useful diamonds from such a gigantic one. At least here you can chip away at the surrounding rock until the diamond is free and then just pick it up. But when the surrounding rock is diamond, how do you get a useful piece that's not the size of a mountain?

On the idea of a planet made out of oil, since the creation of oil requires organic material and Earth is just teaming with life, I say that you could consider our planet as being as much made of oil as you are likely to find anywhere out in space.

Great.


Now every woman in the Western world is going to pout when they get their engagement rings, because they didn't get the biggest diamond evar.


This is terrible news for men.

Great.


Now every woman in the Western world is going to pout when they get their engagement rings, because they didn't get the biggest diamond evar.


This is terrible news for men.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

So you know what... Screw that planet.

So umm 88 years at 1g acceleration if my math is right (though a 4G system would be possible). Sounds profitable. Hopefully in 160 years when someone leaves diamonds are still valuable and aren't all man made. I doubt ion thrusters would hold up, and getting clearance for a Project Orion vehicle is probably hard. Sigh too bad.

Uhm, doesn't the article say it's 4000 ly away ? You'd need some seriously exotic propulsion system to get there in only 88 years ;)

Well, I have this plan for a hyperspace engine knocking about....

Well, I have this plan for a hyperspace engine knocking about....

Unfortunately, it would cost a planet-sized diamond to build it.

Well they believe it's very dense and make of carbon but they aren't sure if it's in the shiny form of diamond that we see on diamond rings and jewelry. I think I read somewhere that it was like 4 or 5 thousand light years away too but I'm not sure about that(not to mention the radiating star nearby).