okay. so. like… given that “diamond” is a particularly defined cyrstalline form of carbon. Does neptune rain solid diamond? wouldn’t that be more like… ‘hail’?
also. it’s always fun to me reading some older scifi where they colonize venus because it looked like… how we look at mars today.
Nah there aren’t any slaves to exploit on other planets, so they aren’t interested
Yeah, and we’ve never transported slaves to a new world on ships before.
Not one of these is “men.”
I’m starting to think that song was a lie!
:P
It rains men on Uranus.
Got eem!
Rectum.
Funny thing is that there’d be enough diamonds that even the market crash of hauling a shitload of them back to earth wouldn’t stop you from making absolute bank off selling them.
Probably mostly to scientists and specialist mining companies but hey money’s money.
Diamonds aren’t actually rare, and the people who control the market would have you executed.
Jevon’s principle would save your ass
I want to feel the nice warmth of molten iron on my shoulders. Give me that amazing summer glow only OGLE-TR-56b can provide
I wonder what diamonds created in a gas giant atmosphere look like. Neptune has crazy high wind speeds.