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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5669139" data-attributes="member: 54707">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.</blockquote>