Lucy the diamond in the sky !

Dawn · #1 02-18-2004, 04:41 PM

Hello,

Guess you have all heard about the gigantic diamond floating around space. What I think is weird is the name they have given this diamond, Lucy, after the Beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Ummm correct me if Im wrong but I didnt think this song was about actual diamonds !!!!!!! More about being off your head on something.

Them space people have been on the space dust again.

Dawn

Neurotica80 · #2 02-18-2004, 04:52 PM

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Maybe its cos they're "Spaced Out"

jovi75 · #3 02-18-2004, 04:55 PM

You're right:

L_ucy in the S_ky with D_iamonds.
Capital letters are the source of that song.

Mongoose · #4 02-18-2004, 06:00 PM

eh? what diamond in the sky

Rune · #5 02-18-2004, 07:11 PM

Didn't John say it wasn't about LSD, and that he made the song out of a child's drawing?

Stut · #6 02-18-2004, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

eh? what diamond in the sky

Probably this.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093.

The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.

The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.

The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.

Mongoose · #7 02-18-2004, 07:33 PM

Dawn · #8 02-18-2004, 07:48 PM

they reckon it will happen to our sun one day in the distant future.

No the song wasnt about a drawing.

Dawn

RS8MB0R8 · #9 02-18-2004, 08:44 PM

Apparently, it's so dense that a teaspoon of it would weigh several tonnes!!!!

Mike · #10 02-18-2004, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stut-The-Finn

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mongoose

eh? what diamond in the sky

Probably this.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093.

The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.

The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.

The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.

Ah!! - SO this explains the sudden rush to get into space.... Imagine how much u could flog that for.

Lucy the diamond in the sky !

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