Hey Guys!!! For The Woman Who Has Everything.  |
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 so, i was just watching "Modern Marvels" on The History Channel...........yeah, i'm a $lut for science and all things that learn my brain.
anyways the show was all about the element carbon.
they talked about carbon fiber race cars, carbon based life(US!!!) and got around to discussing diamonds which are actually carbon which has been compressed under intense pressure for billions of years, until it becomes crystallized carbon or diamonds.
well it turns out scientists have discovered a white dwarf star 17 light years from Earth which is made out of crystallized carbon.
so this star, named BPM37093, is actually a GIGANTIC DIAMOND as big as.........well, as big as a star.
it's estimated carat weight is 10^33 or 10 billion trillion trillion carats.
>>>>NOT A REFERRAL LINK<<<<
http://www.iastate.edu/IaStater/1998/0598/diamond.html
http://www.physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=66&page=&show=all
now if i could just find a jeweler that can mount it on a ring. 
anyway...........that's all............i just found it kind of interesting.
do you prefer ketchup or catsup???
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1.  Little_Stormy (1830) | 7 months ago |  WOW!!!!!!!
I love the History channel.... and the Science channel.. don't you?????
So, how do I get to this star before Dana does???
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| Little_Stormy (1830) | 7 months ago | ohhh! I hate catsup and Ketchup.... I like mayo!
*curtsy*
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| Little_Stormy (1830) | 7 months ago | OMG!!! are ya serious?
I started out mixing mayo and ketchup together for my fries... but now I mix mayo and BBQ sauce! it's AWESOME!!!!! ya have to try it! you will love it! | |
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 sconibear (2508) | 7 months ago | yeah........BBQ sauce is just tangy ketchup so i'm sure it's DEEEELISH! | |
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| Irishfrndly65 (7248) | 7 months ago |  Ohh.....I wanna see the Death Star...I'm feeling like redecorating...something....orange? yea.....
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 mtdewgurl74 (10243) | 7 months ago |  I haven't tried mixing Miracle whip and Ketchup for my fries but I do so for my hamburgers all the time. I guess it never hurts to try it that way at least once.
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| 2. uath13 (3731) | 7 months ago |  Finally, a real reason to explore space. Diamonds....
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| uath13 (3731) | 7 months ago | Also explains why women expect us to give them the stars... | |
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| TLChimes (1639) | 7 months ago |  I do not eat dimonds nor do I put them in the space craft. I let the kids play catch with them.
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| 3. Mirsya (377) | 7 months ago |  Well, it's not impossible since carbon can turn into diamond. Actually, ordinary charcoal and diamond is from the same element. What makes them different is the crystal structure. So, the star you've mention was actually a black charcoal-like star million years before.
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| sconibear (2508) | 7 months ago | yeah........that sounds about right. | |
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5.  guybrush (3488) | 7 months ago |  We don't have ketchup OR catsup. It's plain ol' tomato sauce in the Land of Oz! Monster diamonds falling from the sky? It'll probably land on Elizabeth Taylor and squash her flat. I read recently they are now making 'diamonds' out of the cremains of dearly departed ... you can have granny's ashes heated to an unbelievable degree, at which stage it then becomes a solid which resembles a diamond .. and can be mounted in 'heirloom jewellery'. Creepy, eh?
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| TLChimes (1639) | 7 months ago | Someone else mentioned that and my question was... what happens when everyone who knew that was Gran dies? Who knows where it ends up.... or how about the guy who stole the jewelry box and then went home with this cool gift for his girlfriend. If only she knew what her dumb boyfriend was up to. | |
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| guybrush (3488) | 7 months ago | ... A sauce by any other name, James ... would STILL just be tomato sauce!
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| 6. Irishfrndly65 (7248) | 7 months ago | Ok, call me Frugal Franny, but I'm a CZ gal. LOL! Or cheaper colored stones, I'm soo NOT paying that for a piece of rock. What the heck for? I also prefer silver to gold and white gold if I can't get silver. All I can think of is what else that money could be used for instead of a diamond. LOL! Eeeekkkk!!!! | |
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| Little_Stormy (1830) | 7 months ago | To be completely honest.. I feel the same way!
I have diamonds, and some pretty big ones too.. but not because I asked for them... When I got engaged my husband took me to pick out my ring, and I picked a ring with a small diamond because I really don't care for big gaudy rings.. unfortunately, he went behind my back and got me the marquis cut that I picked out but the stone was huge.. all I could think of was... what a waste of money! lol!
I'm really not materialistic at all..
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| Irishfrndly65 (7248) | 7 months ago | LOL....I'm thinking mean thoughts. Sell it, replace with a cz and redo the house. heeee Ok...I'm bad today...I know.......... | |
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| Irishfrndly65 (7248) | 7 months ago | What the HECK is up with that guys hair? Donald...shave that crap off! It scares me! | |
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| mtdewgurl74 (10243) | 7 months ago | I guess they wanted them to be turned into fake diamonds so they could wear them close to their hearts but seriously I wouldn't be able to wear it if I knew it had once been the remains of a deceased person. To scary and would definitely give me nightmares about it. I told my husband I was having him cremated but I guess what is going to be in the Urn is what I'll have left of him.
Note* I went in search of my Ketchup bottle and it says that It is made up of a Tomato concentrate that is made up from (water and tomato paste)high fructose corn syrup,vinegar,salt,onion powder,spice and natural flavors.
Has anyone just used actual plain tomato sauce as a dip for fries? I guess it would be something to try when I run out of ketchup. | |
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| 8. TLChimes (1639) | 7 months ago | Very Cool... I passed the link on to my dad... he'll love it. | |
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| 9. commanderxo (428) | 7 months ago |  Let's hope NASA doesn't find out too soon. If they do...chances are they'll send the next shuttle crew on a mining mission!
"Forget Mars and the Moon gentlemen...we're now on a galactic mission to --- the DIAMOND STAR! In the meantime, we'll be having our experts scan the heavens for --- GOLD STARS, in case we need to make a pit-stop along the way."
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"Pass 'em around."
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| 10. JOIEMARVIC (1198) | 7 months ago |  Very interesting story. I wonder if that worth of that diamond could cover up all the debts of the powerful and not so powerful countries worlwide...lol..but if that diamond is really as big as a star.whoa..its some kinda freaky..
i prefer catsup!lol...
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