ladies, take note - galaxies largest diamond

[Rÿcher]

Astronomers have found a star completely composed of pure crystallized carbon. Approximately the size of our sun, they estimate it to be 10 billion trillion trillion carats.

http://www.universetoday.com/2004/02/13/astronomers-find-a-huge-diamond-in-space/

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well look at it this way, the first person to ever reach that thing will be the richest person in the history of mankind.

 

[Hermiod]

It's 2061 all over again!

 

[Meredith]

Good luck landing on it and standing on it without turning into a puddle of liquid person.

 

[FordSVT]

Well look at it this way, the first person to ever reach that thing will be the richest person in the history of mankind.

No, the market would be so flooded with diamond it would become as common as air, and thus worthless. Not that we'd be mining that star for diamond, it would still be cheaper to just make what we need.

"Precious" metals and stones are only worth as much as they are because they are rare or hard to procure. materialize a lump of gold onto Arizona the size of Fenway Park and the price of gold would drop overnight.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well look at it this way, the first person to ever reach that thing will be the richest person in the history of mankind.

No, the market would be so flooded with diamond it would become as common as air, and thus worthless.

No, what I meant was whoever controls it can also control how many diamonds get put on the market, just a small steady supply of diamonds could turn the person rich to start off with, then after that the person could start making and selling diamond chairs and stuff like that for even more cash.
Mining it could be as easy as nuking or lasering a chunk of it off.

 

[Ronald Held]

Why is the interior expected to be diamond? Isn't it an Carbon/Oxygen white dwarf?

 

[Samurai8472]

and then when people board a shuttle pass the planet they'll encounter some alien that mimics you and finally takes your voice

Molto bene!

 

[FordSVT]

Well look at it this way, the first person to ever reach that thing will be the richest person in the history of mankind.

No, the market would be so flooded with diamond it would become as common as air, and thus worthless.

No, what I meant was whoever controls it can also control how many diamonds get put on the market, just a small steady supply of diamonds could turn the person rich to start off with, then after that the person could start making and selling diamond chairs and stuff like that for even more cash.
Mining it could be as easy as nuking or lasering a chunk of it off.

If you're actually trying to have a serious discussion about this, I don't think you've really thought the economics of this through.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

If you're actually trying to have a serious discussion about this, I don't think you've really thought the economics of this through.

Why haven't I if you control the diamond you can also control how many diamonds 'flood' the market and you can make some decent money before too many diamonds show up, after diamonds start dropping in price you start using larger chunks of diamond to create other merchandise and sell diamond armour plating for military vehicles and if we actually have the tech to reach that far in space then obviously we'll have spaceships that could likely utilise diamond.
It's pretty simple and straightforward.

Diamond ammo anyone?

 

[FordSVT]

^If we had the technology to cheaply mine stars in other solar systems for diamonds, we'd be pumping out aggregated diamond nanorod based ammunition or something even more advanced by the truck-full and we wouldn't need natural diamonds anymore for industrial or military applications. Hell we hardly use them now.