It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune
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It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune
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#2Paywalled. More easily accessible at http://www.dailyitem.com/news/it-rains-solid-diamonds-on-ura...
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#3Hasn't this been debunked?
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#4Reminds me of a plot point in Arthur C. Clarke's 2061: Odyssey Three.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds...
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#5SpaceX' master plan revealed. Poor DeBeers.
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#6Paywalled. More easily accessible at http://www.dailyitem.com/news/it-rains-solid-diamonds-on-ura...
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#7Hasn't this been debunked?
From TFA:
> In a study published this week in the journal Nature Astrophysics, researchers say they were able to produce this "diamond rain" using fancy plastic and high-powered lasers.
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#9Book recommendation: The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert Heinlein. One of the things handled in the plot is the fictional assertion that the moon is covered in diamonds.
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#10I once said in a college paper that what gets listed as scarce resources will change as we venture into space.
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