[TADSLOS]

If my wife sees this on QVC, I'm a goner.

[Constitution Day]

De Beers is devising a way to claim mineral rights as we speak.

[robertpaulsen]

"The gem, estimated at close to 10 billion trillion trillion carats,"

Wasn't this about the size of the diamond that Kobe gave his wife?

[Johnny_Cipher]

What a predicament. Even a Shuttle-sized load of this material would be enough to wreck the world price of diamond forever.

(And the mount needed for a 17 quintilion carat ring would be a task in itself) :)

[1Old Pro]

If diamonds ever become affordable women won't want them anymore.

[ErnBatavia]

This just in...breaking: "Zsa Zsa Gabor enrolls in Astronaut School"

[CougarGA7]

DeBeers is probably already trying to buy the mining rights to that star.

That diamond is almost as large as the one Kobe Bryant had to buy his wife.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Moon-sized diamond found in space

An alien preparing to propose to JLo?

[No Blue States]

"It has been dubbed "Lucy" in reference to the Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Diamond specialists told the research team that if nothing else, the diamond was much too big to wear*.

Now what will they name the large chunk of purple microdot they discover?

[RightWingAtheist]

However, the white dwarf is not only radiant but also harmonious. It rings like a gigantic gong, undergoing constant pulsations

The late Robert Forward once wrote a short story called "The Signing Diamond." I wish he was here to see this.

[bolobaby]

Yeah, but what's the color/clarity? We need to get a gemologist up there right away!

[RightWingAtheist]

Oh, and has anyone else here ever read "As Big as the Ritz" by Gregory Benford? It's a brilliant satire on socialism.

[blackdog]

That would explain all those applications for astronaut NASA has received from the Hassidic Orthodox Jewish Community.

All I want to know....."Is it safe?"

[4CJ]

Carbon core in a white dwarf? Somebody's pulling a leg somewhere ... Osmium & Iridium are far denser than carbon.

[70times7]

We figured out that the carbon interior of this white dwarf has solidified to form the galaxy's largest diamond

Does this mean we should check Dean's interior for diamonds?

[gridlock]

As a rule of thumb, two Quintillion months salary is the appropriate amount of money to spend on an engagement ring...

[vavavah]

Great,go get that suckah.....hopefully, the quibic Z,I gave to the wife will be;....worth Mo Money...

[Bean Counter]

Arthur C. Clark predicted something like this in one of his novels....the core of Jupiter was a diamond the size of earth, carbon settling out int the core, heat, pressure, yada, yada....

It's been done....

[Junior]

De Beers just fainted...

[Eighth Square]

This could cause a run on the dollar! It's actually more 'series' than the guy with the high temperature water well!