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

By: Kazzy

Kazzy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:09:55 +0000

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

By: chris

chris — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:56:07 +0000

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

they really should have named it SYD!

By: Oswald F

Oswald F — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:54:18 +0000

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.

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:56:06 +0000

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?

By: Toby B.

Toby B. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:18:35 +0000

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

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:18:08 +0000

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.

By: andy cochrane

andy cochrane — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:04:29 +0000

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!

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:26:03 +0000

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

By: L

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:29:57 +0000

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.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:40:25 +0000

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?

By: Feldman

Feldman — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:26:45 +0000

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

By: Jason E.

Jason E. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:01:51 +0000

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.

By: NiteWhite

NiteWhite — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:56:23 +0000

Now how many Africans will die for this diamond?

By: su.wei

su.wei — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:49:07 +0000

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!