A drawing of the planet 55 Cancri e, orbiting its parent star with some
of its companions. As much as one-third of the planet may be diamond, a
new study suggests.
Credit: Haven Giguere
11 comments:
Weston
said...
I want to point out that a diamond planet being there is a bad thing. I mean sure, more shiny things, but the value of diamonds would go down. Say we somehow mined it. How would a diamond company like Cardier make their money? A lot of jewel businesses would lose money because it cost a lot to get the diamonds to make the jewels, and then the price would go down, so I think that it's cool, but it's bad.
I think that there could also be a World war three because everyone would want the diamonds and it could really be hard to mine it all and get it to earth. Also like Weston said, the price of diamond would go down. It could help the economy though. Overall, it was a good article, but things could happen that were not intended.
Weston, that would probably not happen for a long time. If it is 40 light years away, imagine how long it would take a human. We would have to invent a very smart spaceship, that could get there, get the diamonds, and come back. It would be amazing if humans could invent this technology, but it would take too long. While the price of diamonds would go down, diamonds are worth so much, that it would still be a very precious metal. And remember that this is all a could. What are the chances that we could predict what it was made out of if it was 40 light years away. So overall, I think this is a good think that could benefit mankind.
A diamond planet? Wooah! That's awesome! To know that there is a planet as big as Earth and that 1/3 of it is diamond is so cool. I agree with Nick though. Diamond would not go up in the stock market because it's 40 light years away. Nobody would be able to get there for a really long time. I wonder how the diamond got formed out there, though. I wonder why they circle this particular star(55 Cancri). I wonder if there is some sort of particular organism that helps grow diamond out there. Still, how could we have known about it if it is so far away. There's a lot of questions about this that people are not able to answer, but overall I think that it is really cool to know about this.
Everybody is calling it a diamond planet and focusing on the diamonds. Please! Number one: the scientist said that it was a CARBON planet, not a diamond planet, even if there are a lot of diamonds there. Number two: Remember how the scientist said that we shouldn't call it a diamond planet? What if our planet was called the shale planet? We have many other amazing features on Earth, but nobody would see the beautiful rivers, or the amazing mineral formations, because everybody was focusing on the shale. There might be some amazing life-saving cure to cancer on this planet, but we would miss it, because we were so focused on the diamonds! Also, even if this planet was pure diamond, how would we mine it? Anybody we sent would be dead by the time they got there. So, yes this was a very interesting article, but can't people just say "Oh, diamonds! Cool!" without wondering exactly what these diamonds would do for the economy?!?!?!!?!
I 100% agree with Emilynne. People, seriously? Stop exaggerating! As interesting as it would be to know that there was a diamond planet, we do not know for a fact if it is a diamond planet. The article said nothing about it actually being one, it said that it was a carbon planet. And Weston and Ben, if you think about it, by the time people would go to the planet, find the diamonds, return to earth with the diamonds, and sell them, they would long be deceased. And we shouldn't be talking about this anyway until there is complete proof that there are diamonds on the planet. And like Emilynne said, what if everyone focused on how our Earth was shale? As you know, the Earth has many more beneficial and fascinating wonders, that would be totally blocked out. Who knows? Maybe there are other interests on that planet other than, you guessed it, diamonds. Overall, I think that this was an incredibly interesting article, but before going "Ooh, look, diamonds! What are we going to do to them? How are we going to use them? How are we going to sell them?" I would want just a little more evidence.
I agree with Emilynne and Sabina. The article said that a third of the planet COULD be diamond. It could be some extremely diamondlike material that isn't worth anything on earth because it needs extreme heat to survive. Then there could be a world war over the "diamonds", and when the war is over, the diamonds won't look like diamonds anymore because they don't have extreme heat, and while that happens, the diamond sellers will be slowly lowering their prices, preparing for losing a lot of money, realize that their preparation was useless, and try to slowly raise their prices, but maybe customers will not be willing to buy it for a higher price because they have gotten used to lower prices. That is just one possibility, but another is that it is a different extremely diamondlike material that could be the cure to some dangerous sickness. Another is that it is some other extremely diamondlike material, or real diamond, that is impossible to get out of the ground because of some other thing that attached it there, and while everyone is trying to get the diamonds or diamondlike things out of the ground, there might be some amazing wonder right in front of them that they don't even notice.
This is actually pretty cool, but honestly, it has absolutely no use for us humans. I mean, this planet is about 40 lightyears away from Earth. You would have to send out a very high tech gadgety robot with an arm that could collect like one little fraction of a piece of a diamond by digging in the extremely hot dirt and find half of a ring sized piece of diamond in the dirt. This would be pretty ridiculous. Why can't people just accept that diamonds are special and rare on Earth and we aren't just suddenly going to be able to get a ton of them. And, like other people mentioned, what would happen to our economy? People would first be freaking out about being the first people to get diamonds but honestly, what do you need diamonds for for practical use? The only scenario I could see someone using a diamond in is 1) displaying in their home, or 2) making expensive jewelry out of it. But otherwise, this is crazy! People would immediately waste all of their money buying like a 1,000 carat diamond, and then when they weren't as popular anymore, people would be so poor, and there last hope was selling that diamond. Overall, this is interesting to find out about, but just so pointless.
I understand what Emilynne, Sabina, and Kallie said, but if carbon is put under intense pressure for a long period of time it will turn into diamonds. Even though if there are no diamonds on the planet NOW, the planet may be 1/3 made up of diamonds in a couple of million years or so.
How are we planning on mining the diamonds, if they even exist? The cost of the robot would be so much more than the value of the diamonds, especially after the price of diamonds have started going down.
Also, I agree with Weston because even if we somehow were able to mine the diamonds, all the diamond businesses would lose a lot of money. Plus, everybody will want diamonds from this "amazing" planet, and the demand for the diamonds would become so great that the robot wouldn't be able to keep up with it. A robot arm, even a huge one, can only hold so much weight.
Overall, I think that even though the idea of a diamond planet is really cool, trying to get at the diamond is just unrealistic.
I think that this is a really cool article! I have heard about this on the news a couple months ago, although they were not as sure as they are nowadays. I agree with Weston when he said that the value would go down. But if you think about it... would it really? If it is so far away, and so hard to obtain... wouldn't it be the same as trying to mine for a diamond in the deep terraniums of this planet? In fact, it might be even MORE expensive because it is probably harder to bring back. Another reason I might disagree with myself, and everyone else that agreed with Weston is because its not just a normal diamond. It is a different diamond because it is not obtained from the ground, but obtained from space, where things grow differently, and a different speeds. So if we were to somehow miraculously, find a way to bring parts of this diamond planet back to our Earth, how long would it take to refill that part that we took? I'm sure this will help the economy a lot though, agreeing with Ben. I overall think that this was a really cool article.
Chloe, Just saying it would. If there is more quantity of things the less people would want it. For example, a one of a kind dress is probably a lot more expensive that a one that has 100 copies. It would be interesting to have a race to the diamond planet. This was a really cool article.
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I want to point out that a diamond planet being there is a bad thing. I mean sure, more shiny things, but the value of diamonds would go down. Say we somehow mined it. How would a diamond company like Cardier make their money? A lot of jewel businesses would lose money because it cost a lot to get the diamonds to make the jewels, and then the price would go down, so I think that it's cool, but it's bad.
I think that there could also be a World war three because everyone would want the diamonds and it could really be hard to mine it all and get it to earth. Also like Weston said, the price of diamond would go down. It could help the economy though. Overall, it was a good article, but things could happen that were not intended.
Weston, that would probably not happen for a long time. If it is 40 light years away, imagine how long it would take a human. We would have to invent a very smart spaceship, that could get there, get the diamonds, and come back. It would be amazing if humans could invent this technology, but it would take too long. While the price of diamonds would go down, diamonds are worth so much, that it would still be a very precious metal. And remember that this is all a could. What are the chances that we could predict what it was made out of if it was 40 light years away. So overall, I think this is a good think that could benefit mankind.
A diamond planet? Wooah! That's awesome! To know that there is a planet as big as Earth and that 1/3 of it is diamond is so cool. I agree with Nick though. Diamond would not go up in the stock market because it's 40 light years away. Nobody would be able to get there for a really long time. I wonder how the diamond got formed out there, though. I wonder why they circle this particular star(55 Cancri). I wonder if there is some sort of particular organism that helps grow diamond out there. Still, how could we have known about it if it is so far away. There's a lot of questions about this that people are not able to answer, but overall I think that it is really cool to know about this.
Everybody is calling it a diamond planet and focusing on the diamonds. Please! Number one: the scientist said that it was a CARBON planet, not a diamond planet, even if there are a lot of diamonds there. Number two: Remember how the scientist said that we shouldn't call it a diamond planet? What if our planet was called the shale planet? We have many other amazing features on Earth, but nobody would see the beautiful rivers, or the amazing mineral formations, because everybody was focusing on the shale. There might be some amazing life-saving cure to cancer on this planet, but we would miss it, because we were so focused on the diamonds! Also, even if this planet was pure diamond, how would we mine it? Anybody we sent would be dead by the time they got there. So, yes this was a very interesting article, but can't people just say "Oh, diamonds! Cool!" without wondering exactly what these diamonds would do for the economy?!?!?!!?!
I 100% agree with Emilynne. People, seriously? Stop exaggerating! As interesting as it would be to know that there was a diamond planet, we do not know for a fact if it is a diamond planet. The article said nothing about it actually being one, it said that it was a carbon planet. And Weston and Ben, if you think about it, by the time people would go to the planet, find the diamonds, return to earth with the diamonds, and sell them, they would long be deceased. And we shouldn't be talking about this anyway until there is complete proof that there are diamonds on the planet. And like Emilynne said, what if everyone focused on how our Earth was shale? As you know, the Earth has many more beneficial and fascinating wonders, that would be totally blocked out. Who knows? Maybe there are other interests on that planet other than, you guessed it, diamonds.
Overall, I think that this was an incredibly interesting article, but before going "Ooh, look, diamonds! What are we going to do to them? How are we going to use them? How are we going to sell them?" I would want just a little more evidence.
I agree with Emilynne and Sabina. The article said that a third of the planet COULD be diamond. It could be some extremely diamondlike material that isn't worth anything on earth because it needs extreme heat to survive. Then there could be a world war over the "diamonds", and when the war is over, the diamonds won't look like diamonds anymore because they don't have extreme heat, and while that happens, the diamond sellers will be slowly lowering their prices, preparing for losing a lot of money, realize that their preparation was useless, and try to slowly raise their prices, but maybe customers will not be willing to buy it for a higher price because they have gotten used to lower prices. That is just one possibility, but another is that it is a different extremely diamondlike material that could be the cure to some dangerous sickness. Another is that it is some other extremely diamondlike material, or real diamond, that is impossible to get out of the ground because of some other thing that attached it there, and while everyone is trying to get the diamonds or diamondlike things out of the ground, there might be some amazing wonder right in front of them that they don't even notice.
This is actually pretty cool, but honestly, it has absolutely no use for us humans. I mean, this planet is about 40 lightyears away from Earth. You would have to send out a very high tech gadgety robot with an arm that could collect like one little fraction of a piece of a diamond by digging in the extremely hot dirt and find half of a ring sized piece of diamond in the dirt. This would be pretty ridiculous. Why can't people just accept that diamonds are special and rare on Earth and we aren't just suddenly going to be able to get a ton of them.
And, like other people mentioned, what would happen to our economy? People would first be freaking out about being the first people to get diamonds but honestly, what do you need diamonds for for practical use? The only scenario I could see someone using a diamond in is 1) displaying in their home, or 2) making expensive jewelry out of it. But otherwise, this is crazy! People would immediately waste all of their money buying like a 1,000 carat diamond, and then when they weren't as popular anymore, people would be so poor, and there last hope was selling that diamond.
Overall, this is interesting to find out about, but just so pointless.
I understand what Emilynne, Sabina, and Kallie said, but if carbon is put under intense pressure for a long period of time it will turn into diamonds. Even though if there are no diamonds on the planet NOW, the planet may be 1/3 made up of diamonds in a couple of million years or so.
How are we planning on mining the diamonds, if they even exist? The cost of the robot would be so much more than the value of the diamonds, especially after the price of diamonds have started going down.
Also, I agree with Weston because even if we somehow were able to mine the diamonds, all the diamond businesses would lose a lot of money. Plus, everybody will want diamonds from this "amazing" planet, and the demand for the diamonds would become so great that the robot wouldn't be able to keep up with it. A robot arm, even a huge one, can only hold so much weight.
Overall, I think that even though the idea of a diamond planet is really cool, trying to get at the diamond is just unrealistic.
I think that this is a really cool article! I have heard about this on the news a couple months ago, although they were not as sure as they are nowadays. I agree with Weston when he said that the value would go down. But if you think about it... would it really?
If it is so far away, and so hard to obtain... wouldn't it be the same as trying to mine for a diamond in the deep terraniums of this planet? In fact, it might be even MORE expensive because it is probably harder to bring back. Another reason I might disagree with myself, and everyone else that agreed with Weston is because its not just a normal diamond. It is a different diamond because it is not obtained from the ground, but obtained from space, where things grow differently, and a different speeds. So if we were to somehow miraculously, find a way to bring parts of this diamond planet back to our Earth, how long would it take to refill that part that we took? I'm sure this will help the economy a lot though, agreeing with Ben. I overall think that this was a really cool article.
Chloe, Just saying it would. If there is more quantity of things the less people would want it. For example, a one of a kind dress is probably a lot more expensive that a one that has 100 copies. It would be interesting to have a race to the diamond planet. This was a really cool article.
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