Seas Of Liquid Diamond On Neptune?

5:43 pm EST January 18th, 2010 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments

I claim Neptune, now.

Remote gas giant planets Neptune and Uranus could be covered in vast seas of liquid diamond, dotted with solid diamond chunks like icebergs. A new experiment revealed such oceans are plausible, and would explain some oddities about Neptune’s magnetic field.

Topic: Neptune, Space

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9 Responses to “Seas Of Liquid Diamond On Neptune?”

Matt Osborne says:

January 18, 2010 at 6:28 pm

Cosmologists have theorized for decades that Jupiter’s core may be solid diamond.
Quaker in a Basement says:

January 18, 2010 at 8:04 pm

Well, you can claim Neptune, but I’m not touching Uranus.
cj says:

January 18, 2010 at 11:27 pm

Okay I laughed.
cj says:

January 18, 2010 at 11:29 pm

So these a huge diamond rock out there in space….. Okay where do I sign up to be an astronaut?
cj says:

January 18, 2010 at 11:40 pm

Oops meant “there’s”.
Pryme says:

January 19, 2010 at 12:44 am

Time to liberate Neptune, I guess…
texan says:

January 19, 2010 at 6:16 am

Gaily bedight, a gallant night in sunshine and in shadow, had journeyed long, singing a song, in search of El Dorado.

But he grew old — this knight so bold — and — o’er his heart a shadow fell as he found no spot of ground that looked like El Dorado.

And, as his strength failed him at length, he met a pilgrim shadow — “Shadow,” said he, “Where can it be — This land of El Dorado?”

“Over the mountains of the moon, down the Valley of the Shadow. Ride, boldly ride,” the shade replied — “If you seek for El Dorado.”

El Dorado – Edgar Allen Poe
Not That IvyNYC says:

January 19, 2010 at 1:02 pm

Ba-dum BUM chh.
Dr. Psycho says:

January 21, 2010 at 1:52 am

What I am reminded of is the lovely scene in C.S. Lewis’s _The Silver Chair_ where a kindly creature from the lovely underworld offers to pick Lucy a handful of delicious fresh rubies, and squeeze her a cup of diamond juice — so much prettier and tastier than the cold, hardened gemstones you can find on the surface.