The Largest Diamond in the Galaxy: 10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carats

1. su.wei
   February 7th, 2008 at 5:49 am

   i think this has the possibility to make space travel more accessible for everyone...there's alot of money up in space.If I had enough money, i'd invest in a company that mined space diamonds! i'd be rich!

2. NiteWhite
   February 7th, 2008 at 7:56 am

   Now how many Africans will die for this diamond?

3. Jason E.
   February 7th, 2008 at 8:01 am

   First off:

   If you were able to find a location to actually mine "space diamonds," they would basically be considered a completely separate precious stone apart from "Earth Diamonds."

   They would probably actually devalue Earth diamonds, being considered an even more precious stone.

   Think of them as being "Diamonds 2.0" The problem with that idea is that this massive space diamond wasn't mined at all. It's apparently a free-floating mass.

4. Feldman
   February 7th, 2008 at 8:26 am

   You would get so laid if you gave that to someone.

5. Justin
   February 7th, 2008 at 9:40 am

   That would be one hell of a present. I traveled 50 light years and got this diamond from what was once the heart of a star!

   Oh... you got me a card?

6. L
   February 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

   4000 kilometres in diamater? Wouldn't that make those diamonds pretty cheap? That's assuming we could devise an economical way of getting up there to mine. Oh, well.

7. VonSkippy
   February 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

   Only DeBeers and the sheeple who listen to them think compressed carbon has any exceptional value.

8. andy cochrane
   February 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

   we already have the technology to make near-perfect diamonds for a tiny fraction of the cost (both human and as a result of the manufactured short supply) that natural diamonds incur. and there is no way that mining this thing would ever be worth the cost of flying out to it and back. that said, it's a really cool find!

9. Ali S.
   February 7th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

   I think this is cool for sure, however, if ever I had to get a diamond I would get one that was made from somebodies ashes. I think it's called LifeGem or something or other...but I think that would be more memorable than a diamond from a store.

10. Toby B.
    February 7th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Anyone have any idea how much this would be worth if it was a mined here on earth? ten quintillion kajillion dollars?

11. MoonCake
    February 8th, 2008 at 6:56 am

    beneath all of this, Kay Jewlers, Staffords, and Jared are all drooling and rubbing their hands together schemingly. the sad part is that we've already put a monetary value on it. everthing is for sale here on earth. think we should just go ahead and convert to our intergalactic currency?

12. Oswald F
    February 8th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    It's worth nothing, absolutly nothing. Harvesting that, would devalue diamonds so much that instead of buying gravel for your driveway, you'd use diamonds. The only thing that much diamond would be good for would be industrial uses, same with the asteroid in our system that has the surface area equivalent to texas and contains more prescious metals within 30 meteres of the surface than have ever been or will be harvested on this planet.

13. chris
    February 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    "the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun"

    they really should have named it SYD!

14. Kazzy
    April 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    That's cool, but is it gem quality, or the quality used to make industrial tools? Makes a big difference. Still shiny, though.

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