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Post by librarylover on Aug 25, 2011 23:46:24 GMT
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Post by aquabluejay on Aug 26, 2011 0:10:27 GMT
It's Midnight. Let's just hope that Tennant never becomes an astronaut...
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Post by primsong on Aug 26, 2011 15:01:05 GMT
I admit I thought of that as well, hah... well, at least when they go to build that exotic resort there, we can't say we weren't warned!
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leamichelle
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Post by leamichelle on Aug 27, 2011 14:13:48 GMT
Astronomers are pretty sure it's the core of a white dwarf, and all the carbon left over from the fusion of helium compacted with enough pressure from the planet's own gravity to form a diamond.
But there's totally a train on it with crazy people and an ethereal life form. Scientific fact. ... I mean, I can't name my source on that or anything, but ... ;D
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Post by aquabluejay on Aug 27, 2011 17:03:41 GMT
Astronomers are pretty sure it's the core of a white dwarf, and all the carbon left over from the fusion of helium compacted with enough pressure from the planet's own gravity to form a diamond. But there's totally a train on it with crazy people and an ethereal life form. Scientific fact. ... I mean, I can't name my source on that or anything, but ... ;D Or there will be in the future of course...
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Post by jjpor on Aug 28, 2011 16:59:27 GMT
It just goes to show - reality really is stranger than fiction.
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Post by kirkg on Aug 28, 2011 20:12:28 GMT
Kind of reminds me of that chapter in the book, 2010: Odyessey Two..
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", referencing the core of Jupiter...
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Post by magnusgreel on Aug 29, 2011 17:06:10 GMT
Reuters doesn't want me looking at their stuff, I guess. Won't load. I heard a story in Analog about a dark iron core of a planet where some catastrophe (is it a catastrophe if no one lived there?) ripped away the rock and soil, as some far off part of our solar system.
As for this new thing being the carbon core of a former star, the way I heard it, after there's no longer hydrogen to turn into helium (what the Sun does), the helium that's left combines into carbon to continue the nuclear fusion... but that then, when the helium runs out, the carbon combines into more complicated elements. If there's a stellar core wandering around made of diamond, I guess the nuclear reactions stopped at the carbon stage, and the carbon just went on compressing itself from gravity, without any more fusion going on.
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