February 14, 2004
The Galaxy's Largest Diamond
The newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. (A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, or about 6 trillion miles.) It is 2,500 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros.
A bit extravagant, I would think.
Posted by mallarme at February 14, 2004 04:25 PM
Comments
That is fucking cool. Straight out of Silver Surfer.
Posted by: sleepnotwork at February 16, 2004 09:58 AM
Nerd! :)
Posted by: mallarme at February 16, 2004 10:51 AM
I'm refracting a thought ray through my Power Ring right now. Is your dick on fire yet?
Posted by: sleepnotwork at February 16, 2004 03:53 PM