Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The biggest ever diamond has been found, estimated to be close to 10 billion trillion trillion carats, which is bigger than the moon. Unfortunately it's floating in space 50 light-years from earth, and if it ever made the voyage to earth we'd only be fabulously wealthy for a brief instant, before we were all fabulously dead (I'm ignoring some laws of supply & demand here as I think we'd have bigger things to worry about than split second economic trends). All in all just a bit too much bling to handle.

Entry 738, Tuesday, February 17th 2004, Filed In Stuff

Comments

Jann

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You know, you post quite a wealth of time consuming junk for a lazy bugger.

It is like a panda's box here innit?

Comment 1, Wednesday, February 18th 2004 07:06:00 PM

Graeme

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You've identified my inner conflict Jann - lazy on the one hand, busy finding stuff and writing about it on the other. Most of it is just time consuming junk though rather than being particularly useful which makes me feel better. My ideal situation would be to have a wireless network at home so I can do this from bed, thus combining two pleasures in one. As I'm off work next week I might actually get around to sorting this out. Watch out for the Bed Blog...

Comment 2, Wednesday, February 18th 2004 09:28:00 PM

Jann

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Blimey. Kind of like John Lennon with broadband...

...and without that annoying weirdo bird. Or something.

Comment 3, Wednesday, February 18th 2004 11:41:00 PM

Graeme

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...er, almost identical.

Comment 4, Thursday, February 19th 2004 12:50:00 AM

The infamous Jules

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This is about the same size as my engagement ring. And you can never handle too much bling. I love handling it personally!

Comment 5, Monday, February 23rd 2004 05:04:00 PM

Graeme

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Yes I forgot to mention the ring setting and that it was attached to your engagement finger ;o)

Comment 6, Monday, February 23rd 2004 06:31:00 PM

Robot-in-disguise

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I thought it was about the Beatles there 
<strike>I got all excited </strike> 
ohwell 
giant space diamonds are <strike><it>just as good</it></strike>...<strike><it
>fine
with me</it></strike>...<strike><it&g
t;good</it></strike>...ok
too.

Comment 7, Tuesday, May 15th 2007 07:10:45 PM