/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3628122]

HOLY SHIT A WHOLE PLANET MADE OF THE HARDEST METAL

http://gizmodo.com/5834492/the-biggest-diamond-in-the-world-is-actually-a-planet

[Anonymous No.3628129]

what about the diamond universe

[Anonymous No.3628140]

>diamond
>metal

[Anonymous No.3628143]

Thanks for looking out for us, Mod.

Quick question before you go...
Not posting the sticky has to do with the fact that free textbook sites are listed on the /sci/ website we were trying to sticky, right?

[Anonymous No.3628147]

>diamond
>metal
>oh boy

[Anonymous No.3628148]

>>3628140

Due to extensive research done by the Fourchon University of Science, diamond has been confirmed as the the hardest metal known the man. The research is as follows.
Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed.
They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an out into the wall, and the wall came out fine.
They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.
They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond travelling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours.
They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards midwestern Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour.
They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York.
They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive.
Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall travelling at miles, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known the man.

[Anonymous No.3628151]

COOL!

[Anonymous No.3628158]

>Biggest diamond in the world is actually a planet
>Biggest diamond in the world ... planet
>in the world ... planet

pic related

[Anonymous No.3628160]

How about a golden planet.

[Anonymous No.3628167]

Even our mods are trolls, and they won't sticky vital educational information. /sci/ is truly doomed.

[cy No.3628168]

Not a planet for fuck's sake.

[Anonymous No.3628170]

>>3628148
>They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.
>They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall
>They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles
>a diamond car made of 400 miles

You're good at scribblenauts, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.3628164]

>mfw this will be the first thing our civilization goes after when we achieve wakefield acceleration

[Anonymous No.3628173]

>>3628122
maybe this will get those people who roll around in money to throw it at the space program.

[Anonymous No.3628174]

>>3628158

That was my reaction too, bro. Do these article authors even science?

[Anonymous No.3628176]

>>3628158

QUESTION: Is Jupiter actually bigger than all the objects in the solar system or whatever she meant to say or is it false on all levels?

[Anonymous No.3628194]

>4000 light years
>in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun

The planet we're seeing now is 4000 years old. Even if we leave this very second and travel at the speed of light it'll be another 4000 years to reach the planet. What do you think that neutron star will do to the diamond planet in the span of 8000 years? especially when it's so close.

[Anonymous No.3628196]

>>3628176
The sun is far bigger.

[Anonymous No.3628200]

>>3628174
I doubt they science even 50% of the time!

[Anonymous No.3628203]

>>3628196

Sorry, I meant planets. I suspect it's still a no quite easily.

[Anonymous No.3628217]

>>3628176
Yes, Jupiter is bigger than all the planets in the solar system combined (not including the Sun, of course).

[Anonymous No.3628219]

>>3628217
What about pluto?

[bert hutt No.3628226]

> biggest diamond in the world
> is a planet
> in the world

wtfamireading.jpg

[Anonymous No.3628232]

>>3628217
Oh, nevermind, i forgot about Pluto. Yeah, I meant to say Pluto has a mass bigger that all the objects in the Universe combined (except the Sun, of course).

[Anonymous No.3628246]

>>3628203
It is bigger than all the planets combined.

"1321.3 Earths could fit inside Jupiter."
I'm not sure about mass though.

This isn't my source and I don't know how accurate this is but it's right from what I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RfPT5c9zAk&feature=related

[Anonymous No.3628256]

>The Biggest Diamond in the Universe Is Actually a Planet
I must have been asleep awhile. I didn't know we explored the entire Universe.

[Anonymous No.3628261]

>>3628176

Jupiter does indeed have more mass than all the other objects in the solar system combined, excluding the sun.

The sun has approximately 1000 times Jupiter's mass.

[bert hutt No.3628272]

>>3628256
i don't believe you saged this awesome science discovery because of a mistake in the language.

you are the most pathetic fucking aspie i've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.3628275]

mods arent allowed to do this

[Anonymous No.3628284]

>A WHOLE PLANET MADE OF THE HARDEST METAL

That's not a planet made of Dragonforce...

[Anonymous No.3628298]

>greedy as fuck politicians cancel manned space flights for NASA.
>God is like, lol wtf and makes a diamond planet appear
>suddenly greedy as fuck politicians support manned space flights

This level of trolling is only capable by a supreme entity.

[Anonymous No.3628307]

WHAT IF WE CRASH A PLANET OF THE WORLD'S HARDEST METAL INTO A UNIVERSE OF THE WORLD'S HARDEST METAL

WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE

[Anonymous No.3628317]

I sure as hell wouldn't want to get close to a neutron star even if there was a fucking diamond planet waiting to be harvested

[Anonymous No.3628338]

I'm pretty sure it's a government conspiracy so that more private industry will be motivated to consider space flight.

Not a bad plan, I must say.

[Anonymous No.3628343]

>>3628272
They could have easily put "The biggest diamond known to date" or "The biggest diamond ever discovered".
I was also saging just for the fact that I wasn't contributing anything to the conversation (like I will be saging this comment)

[Anonymous No.3628346]

>/the-biggest-diamond-in-the-world-is-actually-a-planet
>in-the-world-is-actually-a-planet
Seriously? Who the fuck came up with this retarded URL?

[Anonymous No.3628359]

>diamonds
>valuable

[Anonymous No.3628369]

>>3628359
>Human
>Rational

[Anonymous No.3628372]

>>3628359

This, pretty much.

If there weren't a choke hold on the supply of natural diamonds here on Earth, they wouldn't be worth jack shit.

Artificial diamonds are superior in quality in just about every respect but they are worth very little because the supply is unhindered.

[Anonymous No.3628377]

>3,000 light years away
>Yeah man, totally diamonds. Made of carbon and all that shit we even know what it's like underneath the crust and shit even though we've never been on it.

If there is one thing I hate about my beloved Astronomy, it is when scientists do this this.

[Blackman No.3628381]

The things I would do to get in bed with a mod. Are you well equipped?

[Anonymous No.3628382]

>>3628377
You apparently don't know much about astronomy.

[Anonymous No.3628389]

>>3628377
>>3628377
>>3628377
I know that feel. It also grinds my gears when people say that shit. Especially like with Jupiter when they say it's composed of only gasses when we haven't even tried going through the giant gas cloud over it. For all we know it could be full of fucking diamonds.


Science, y u do this?

[master sage No.3628393]

just to demonstrate how plentiful diamonds are as a rock, consider this history. When Cecil Rhodes first came to South Africa, his diamond recovery operation consisted of hiring a gang of men to walk in a line across a diamond field and pick the diamonds up off the surface of the ground.

Now of course, they have to go down into the ground and dig. Regardless, they keep bringing up diamonds, thousands of them.

In San Bernadina County, Southern California, just east of Los Angeles, there is a ranch where you can pay a small entrance fee and hunt for diamonds. You are free to keep any you may find.

[Anonymous No.3628395]

Why bother with this far-away planet when Jupiter will explode diamonds in 2061?

[master sage No.3628401]

>>3628389
I was under the impression that the betting was on a core of metallic hydrogen.

[Anonymous No.3628406]

>>3628174
Man, science? Do they even bloody think at all is the question we should be asking.

[Anonymous No.3628449]

>>3628359
Valuable (as in money)?
Yes.
Valuable (for science)?
A little.
Interesting scientific discover?
Yes

>>3628377
Let us see if we can simplify it for your little brain.
The mass of objects can be determined by gravity.
The radioactivity of an object (galaxy-star-planet ect.) can be determined by a radio-telescope.
The interior can be determined by what is on the exterior, and the mass of the object.
So you now know what it is made out of and the mass of it. You can figure out an approximate density from the size of it.
I don't know what technique they used, I'm sure they use what I said, along with many of other things.
Just because you don't personally know something doesn't mean no one knows it.

[Anonymous No.3628500]

What the fuck seriously.

If we mine this planet, diamonds will cost less than dust.

[Anonymous No.3628529]

>>3628500
If we could get to this planet, we probably wouldn't care about the cost of diamonds anyway

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3628538]

>>3628500
This is a bad thing why?
Let's make all materials cost next to nothing.

[Anonymous No.3628547]

HOREY SHIT IT'S A MOD. WHY HASN'T ANYONE ASKED HIM WHY THE STICKY IS GONE?

WHY IS THE STICKY GONE?
WHY IS THE STICKY GONE?
WHY IS THE STICKY GONE?
WHY IS THE STICKY GONE?

[VeiL !!LpJFJwZq2Js No.3628557]

>>3628122
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DO YOU ABUSE CHILDREN OR MOLEST THEM3

[cy No.3628566]

>>3628500
Have fun with that quasar and all.

[Anonymous No.3628570]

>>3628538
If everything cost next to nothing, money will be worth a lot relative to everything. It won't make any change at all.

Instead, lets make all pointless and renewable resources worth a lot of money (without explaining why) and make everything else inexpensive. Then scientists and smart people won't need much money, but the idiots will be wasting all their money.

[Anonymous No.3628578]

>>3628393
same thing in Murfreesboro Arkansas
neither I nor my friends found anything. not even topazes or any cool stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.3628581]

>>3628547
see
>>3628143

Except there hasn't been a response to that anon's post.

[Anonymous No.3628584]

0/10

[Anonymous No.3628594]

PUT THE STICKY BACK DAMN IT!

[NOKO NOW !7HAMu23nPc No.3628597]

>Gizmodo

not a single fuck

[Anonymous No.3628607]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3492919.stm

[Anonymous No.3628622]

>>3628607
It's almost funny how much better this article is.
>Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Also, I like the name.

[Anonymous No.3628646]

>diamond
>metal

>mfw mods are trolls and we finally have an answer why /sci/ sucks so much dick

[Anonymous No.3628653]

>>3628122
reported for shitposting

[ex-MOD No.3628664]

The sticky is gone because it drives users away from the site.
Less traffic for 4chan.

Simple as that.

[ex-MOD No.3628672]

>>3628653
You do realize that you are reporting this to himself right?
Also the mod is posting 1/3 of posts here as plain anonymous.

[Anonymous No.3628677]

>>3628664
How does a wealth of info drive users away from the site?
On a low populated SCIENCE board for fuck's sake

[Anonymous No.3628681]

>>3628672
being a mod isn't an excuse for making shitty threads

[Anonymous No.3628687]

>>3628664
>>3628672
Did you really used to be a mod? Why did you get kicked?

As for the traffic issue, well, /fit/ has an outside sticky and that's still up. Also, the sticky website itself links back to 4chan/sci/, so people who stumble on the site without 4chan can actually discover 4chan through it.

[VeiL !!LpJFJwZq2Js No.3628690]

>>3628664
>>3628672
Eat out my asshole. ;)

[ex-MOD No.3628694]

>>3628677
Instead of people posting and asking shit, they follow the links from sticky.
Do the math.
Also doesnt really matter how many are they.

>>3628681
You tell him that.

[Anonymous No.3628698]

>gizmodo

[Anonymous No.3628701]

Wow, a mod shitting up /sci/ with gay memes. No fucking wonder. Hey mod, what did you say to me the other day for my 1-day ban? Something about the quality of posts...

Faggot.

[Anonymous No.3628705]

>>3628694
>Instead of people posting and asking shit, they follow the links from sticky.
>Do the math.
>Also doesnt really matter how many are they.


That's fucking retarded. So traffic (protip: very few people click ads) is more important than:

1. Bothering /sci/ users with repetitive shit like "Where can I find textbooks online"

2. Spreading free educational resources for anyone with internet

[Anonymous No.3628713]

>>3628694
I am telling him. Shit mods like this guy who post troll threads are the reason /sci/ sucks.

[ex-MOD No.3628716]

>>3628687
>kicked
Nope, i ran life.exe

Doesnt matter, its better for the board if people stay and add content.

[Anonymous No.3628717]

>>3628705
money > education & quality of posts

Basically what he said
Fuck these mods are bad
But hey, maybe it's just that faggot moot who told them to take it down

[Anonymous No.3628719]

OMG LOL so funny, OP xD.

[Anonymous No.3628720]

>>3628717

>implying moot still runs this site

[Anonymous No.3628728]

>>3628716
>life.exe
stfu faggot.

[Anonymous No.3628831]

<span class="math">\bbox[padding: 5px;margin-left: .5em;
border-radius: 2px;border: 2px #dac4d8 dashed;
]{DIAMOND \rlap{\kern2pt/}= METAL\quad}[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.3628889]

>>3628831
this

[Anonymous No.3629143]

\bbox[padding: 5px;margin-left: .5em;
border-radius: 2px;border: 2px #dac4d8 dashed;
]{I AM A COLLOSUS \rlap{\kern2pt/}= FAGGOT\quad}

[Anonymous No.3629148]

>>3628122

Carbon isnt a metal.......................................

[Anonymous No.3629154]

>>3628158
>The Herald Sun.
>Expecting scientific accuracy.

These guys supported Abbot's claim that Carbon Dioxide was weightless.

[Anonymous No.3629155]

Its embarrassing enough that /sci/ is so shitty. Please stop bumping this thread to show everyone why.

[Anonymous No.3629179]

Diamond is actually a hydrocarbon or at least a carbon compound

Carbon has a coordination number of 4, hence the surface carbon atoms MUST be bounded to something with a coordination number of 1, unless it forms a fullerene ball at its edge which is highly unlikely.

The carbon groups at the surface will look something like a layer of (C)3CH

[Anonymous No.3629177]

>>3628701
Darling, 4chan and memes go together like niggers and stealing.

[Anonymous No.3629185]

>>3628359
>>3628140

[Anonymous No.3629193]

>>3629179

>Diamond is actually a hydrocarbon

>hydrocarbon

[Anonymous No.3629202]

herp derp what is this google which you speak of?

>No. A pure diamond is carbon, and it is an allotrope of this element in the same way that graphite (pencil lead) is an allotrope of carbon. Thus, diamond is not a metal because carbon is not a metal.

[Anonymous No.3629213]

Wow, sure is newfag in here.

[Anonymous No.3629232]

>>3629202
>>3628140
>>3628147

i had to go look it up.

http://chemistry.about.com/library/blperiodictable.htm

It says carbon is a non-metal.

[Anonymous No.3629243]

lol c-c covalent bonds...

[Anonymous No.3629302]

This planet is now DIAMONDS.

[Anonymous No.3629338]

<span class="math">\bbox[position:fixed;left:0px;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%;
z-index:-1;background:url(
http://images.4chan.org/sci/src/1314336982127.jpg);
background-size:100%;]~[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.3629353]

<span class="math">\bbox[position:fixed;left:0px;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%;
z-index:-1;background:url(
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/56/mylittleponylaptopwallp.jpg);
background-size:100%;]~[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.3629393]

>ponies
*slow clap*
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.3629404]

>>3629353
Interesting....

[GayEmoBetch !.pCLIFaWNg No.3629445]

Goddammit
It's not a terrestial planet.

>It was a gas giant
>It's gas atmosphere was stripped away by pulsar
>Leaving a dense core

Terrestial planets like Earth or even larger 'earths' can never get massive enough like Jupitar or Saturn. When our planet dies it will just freeze as hunk of rock and basalt.

If we sand blasted our planet, we might find a uranium core after it cooled.

[Anonymous No.3629442]

\bbox[position:fixed;left:0px;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%;
z-index:-1;background:url(
http://troll.me/images/forever-alone-20/forever-alone.jpg);
background-size:100%;]~

[Anonymous No.3629471]

>>3628122
So /sci/'s mod is a fucking faggot with no knowledge or understanding of science and a ponyfaggot.

[Anonymous No.3629491]

>>3629353
\bbox[position:fixed;left:0px;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%;
z-index:-1;background:url(
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/56/mylittleponylaptopwallp.jpg);
background-size:100%;]~

>The hidden text from this post

I can't make heads or tails of it, so gods speed fellow anons.

Good thing I have Adblock.

[Anonymous No.3629492]

>>3628831

I'm guessing this could be moot. just a guess

[Beholder No.3629502]

Now look what seaking did to it!

[Anonymous No.3629505]

>>3628298
going after that planet would make diamonds worthless.

[Anonymous No.3629520]

alright fuck.

now that paper money is worthless, diamonds are worthless and rare metals are worthless


WHAT AM I GOING TO PUT MY MONEY IN TO PASS ONTO MAH CHILDRAN?

>ah fuck them, they can make their own monies

[Anonymous No.3629535]

>>3629505
And we have shitloads of diamonds on Earth, it's just a few companies hoarding them.

[Anonymous No.3629558]

>>3629535

lololol no

diamond suppliers withhold their stock to some extent, but they dont have hoards of diamonds just sitting around

its not like oil

(they have buckets of oil just lying around)

[Anonymous No.3629588]

>>3629558
Woah, a use of "hoard" which could almost be replaced with "horde."

[Anonymous No.3629590]

>>3629491
it's basically creating a div which takes up the entire page and is behind everything else

[Anonymous No.3629591]

<span class="math">\bbox[padding: 5px;margin-left: .5em; border-radius: 2px;border: 2px #dac4d8 dashed;font-size:300%; ]{PLEASE FIX THIS MOD\quad}[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.3629594]

>>3629588

what pot are you smokin nagger?

itd sooner be replaced with the word Whore'd over Horde to keep with the context

[Anonymous No.3629595]

>>3629591
I'm surprised other boards haven't gone crazy with the code.

But I'm glad as well as it could lead to many maaaaaaaany problems.

[Anonymous No.3629605]

Fuuuuuuck yes.

Diamond planets exist!

I fuckin' LOVE space.

[Anonymous No.3629602]

>>3629594

Agreed,

Diamond hoard

has a closer meaning with

Diamonds whore'd

than

Diamond horde (implying a mob of diamond / diamond-like entities) (titties)

[Anonymous No.3629607]

Mods, I love you.

[Anonymous No.3629608]

>>3629602

diamond horde : a mob of diamonds n titties

[Anonymous No.3629610]

>>3629605
Love space?
Have you played that one space game "space engine"?

[Anonymous No.3629619]

Sagan up in this motherfucker
<span class="math">\bbox[position:fixed;left:0px;top:0px;width:100%;height:100%; z-index:-1;background:url( http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/carl_sagan.jpg); background-size:100%;]~\phantom{gafdf}[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.3629613]

>>3629602
I was thinking of the diamonds as being a mob of diamond entities, perhaps horsemen riding to glorious conquest.

[Anonymous No.3629623]

>>3629610

I downloaded it yesterday, actually.

Can't run the stupid thing no matter what I try.

[Anonymous No.3629626]

>>3629623
That sucks bro

Cause it's soooo much fun

[Anonymous No.3629636]

>>3629626

[Anonymous No.3629639]

>>3628122
>mfw you think neutronium is a metal
>mfw you don't understand that neutronium isn't even normal matter, is in a class by itself
>mfw I HAVE NO GODDAMNED MOTHERFUCKING FACE!!! AAAAGH!!!

[Anonymous No.3629648]

>>3629636
Soooo sorry man

I can't stop exploring
it's soooo addiiicting broo


Look at all that spaaaaace

[Anonymous No.3629667]

>>3629648
P.S
Those are all galaxies you can go to

Each and every star
Each and every planet