Clarke's novel also includes the Lucy in the Sky reference.
Posted on 08/25/2017 6:57:33 PM PDT by Loyalist
Researchers say they were able to produce 'diamond rain' using fancy plastic and high-powered lasers to recreate the intense conditions of the planets
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Consider this your daily reminder that the solar system is even more awesomely bonkers than you realized: On Uranus and Neptune, scientists forecast rain storms of solid diamonds.
The gems form in the hydrocarbon-rich oceans of slush that swath the gas giants’ solid cores. Scientists have long speculated that the extreme pressures in this region might split those molecules into atoms of hydrogen and carbon, the latter of which then crystallize to form diamonds. These diamonds were thought to sink like rain through the ocean until they hit the solid core.
But no one could prove that this would really work — until now. In a study published this week in the journal Nature Astrophysics, researchers say they were able to produce this “diamond rain” using fancy plastic and high-powered lasers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Nope. Kronos is the Klingon homeworld. Uranus is an uninhabited gas giant in the sol system. No man is bold enough to go there.
I would go there just to light a match.
Clarke's novel also includes the Lucy in the Sky reference.
I completely agree with you! Sapphires would be much prettier for engagement rings!
Now you tell me.
My Wife just visited the Costco Jewelry Department and she didn’t leave empty handed.
Lisa: Are we taking the Lexus to Aunt Patty and Selma’s funeral today?
Who needs that many glass cutters?
“The Byrds did a beautiful job (but the backing tracks were The Wrecking Crew).”
You just may find this interesting
If carbon is hot enoughto be liquid, it’s not going to be a diamond.
So “solid diamond” is redundant.
I’ve heard of pink feathers from Uranus, but never diamonds.
WOW! Thanks! :-)
A load of diamond falling on Uranus can leave a mark.
fancy plastic ...??? Fancy plastic makes fancy stories ...?
Can someone translate dis article into Pidgin ?
OUCH!
I bet she is right and the individual diamonds they produced required a microscope to see them. Think fog or water clouds here. Vaporized carbon condenses at a very high temperature, that likely happens pretty quickly with little time for crystals to grow.
I'm wondering if the planets are really hot enough to make carbon vapor. Talk about global warming, the former inhabitants of those planets must have really screwed up. Fake news IMO.
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