OT: diamonds are forever :)

[henk brouwer]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
So how could you mine that ultra-dense space diamond then? Presumably the gravity would crush any spacecraft and its occupants into soup long before they landed.

or into little diamonds.. we are carbon based life forms after all

Originally posted by dogscoff:

Maybe you could throw a few nukes or asteroids at it, and hope to bLast a few framents off that you could then scoop up from a distance..?

That might be the way to go, though you would need quite some force to break the diamont.. it's not like you can take your pickaxe and chop some pieces off... diamont is hard..

At least we could still look at it..

[ February 18, 2004, 10:32: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

[Karibu]

Actually, you don't necessary need very much power to break a diamond. It is so hard that it is almost fragile. If you hit at the right point with sufficient force, the diamond will break. Like old saying goes: "Those who are unable to bend, will break" is valid with diamonds also.