Diamond Planet Discovered

[Jack7]

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I think that newer astronomical discoveries such as these, if verifiable and true, would make superb sci-fi adventure and gaming hooks. And good sci-fi fiction stories.

But it also made me think, what amazing and clever things could be done with such a planet?

I was thinking primarily in the way of communications, but other ideas have occurred to me as well.

 

[Kzach]

Well duh, it could be a focusing lens for a planet destroying star capable of hyperspace travel.

 

[megamania]

Well duh, it could be a focusing lens for a planet destroying star capable of hyperspace travel.

There goes the neighborhood.....

 

[Jack7]

Well duh, it could be a focusing lens for a planet destroying star capable of hyperspace travel.

Now you're talking!!!

If you can't use a diamond planet to destroy your neighbors, what good is it?


A bit more seriously, I was thinking in a sci-fi story of it being a component in a giant communications relay, once the planet had been "shaped" and reformed, or altered. Although your idea of a focusing point for a weapons system of some kind had occurred to me as well. And of course, just mining it for raw materials.

As for real life, I think it might be possible to use such natural formations for both communications and sensory purposes, depending upon the equipment you used, and how frequencies could be reflected or maybe even amplified by such sources.

You might even be able to use it as a "natural lens" (as you suggested) under certain conditions and at certain times to peer into regions of space with heavy matter or energy obstruction.

I was also thinking of naturally occurring phenomena like this as possibly being helpful in detecting dark and other exotic forms of matter.

God only knows what other large bodies exist out there or what they may be made of. Or how they might be used. But if there's a diamond planet then there could be nearly anything.

And no telling the possible applications.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Unfortunately, De Beers has already claimed the planet with an army of local warlords and a bunch of slave labor.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

...De Beers...

'S good to see Ditka, da Fridge and da rest of de Beers doin' sumptin' in deah retiyahment...

Now, pass da kielbasa and da 'kraut!

 

[Orius]

Likely the gravity there is so high it would turn you into jelly.

 

[Jack7]

Likely the gravity there is so high it would turn you into jelly.

That's why I was thinking that if you could bend frequencies around it (the planet) and yet still with sufficient energy to cause areas of the crystalline structure to oscillate you might then be able to detect surrounding exotic materials or matter (in the area of curved oscillated refraction) that couldn't otherwise be detected. Of course you'd have to have some idea of predicted effects regarding exactly what you might detect.

Of course we might already be detecting numerous new things with current equipment and just not recognizing what we are seeing because no-one has ever seen it before.

But no, I wouldn't send a human away team down to investigate. Unless they were all natural red shirts.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well duh, it could be a focusing lens for a planet destroying star capable of hyperspace travel.

Vogon Tech perhaps, to create a new hyperspace lane through the Sol system?

 

[Umbran]

And no telling the possible applications.

Are you looking for something like real, if somewhat extreme, science, or do you just want stuff that sounds cool?