New Planet made out of Diamond found, thus the space race is on.

[hodototman]

No, it's not fit for life, and it's larger than Earth.

bute

de muneys

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[blaman]

Diamonds are mostly worthless, compared to their perceived worth.

[Slammer1337]

Diamonds are mostly worthless.

[WingZero]

Did someone say diamonds?

no

[No2mad2]

This is going to turn out horrible if we invent feasible travel. Whoever gets there first is going to take everything.

[*FacePalm*]

aren't diamonds only really hard to scratch but they are very brittle and break easily?

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diamond is the most dense (obtainable) mineral known to man

[Tingalz]

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diamond is the most dense (obtainable) mineral known to man

Diamonds are very hard to scratch, but you can still shatter a diamond with a hammer.

[fred da kiko]

The reason we want diamond is to make tool tips. the reason diamonds are expensive is because there is a certain KIND of diamond that is used for jewelry, it's the kind that is all pretty and stuff, they then cut it and make it shine. Ugly diamonds are the kind that we have a lot of and use for drills and stuff, I can go to my local ace hardware and buy diamond dust for under a hundred dollars.

[Blockomanian]

Its 40 light years away, would this planet be possible to get to?

I highly highly doubt that will be possible for a long time.
But that's just me....

[Legodude77]

Edited op for your liking.

[Doomonkey]

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diamond is the most dense (obtainable) mineral known to man

Diamond: 3.5–3.53 g/cm3
Tungsten: 19.25 g/cm3

Not even close.

[skill4life]

I wonder how many people got the joke in the article's title.

remember when you were young?
you shone like the sun.

[Menen]

OCEANS OF DIAMOND

[fred da kiko]

Diamond: 3.5–3.53 g/cm3
Tungsten: 19.25 g/cm3

Not even close.

it's not the densest, it's the hardest. hard meaning you can't scratch it with anything but other diamonds. it's not dense, denseness has nothing to do with hardness or else lead would be harder than steel. It all has to do with the crystalline structure of the diamond, it's all triangles or something.

[T0XIC]

Aren't diamonds made from magma or some stuff?

Diamonds are basically Carbon that has been put under pressure for a very long time.

The planet must have consisted of a large amount of carbon, unless there's another theory and there probably is one that will make much more sense that mine.