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What would aliens living on a diamond planet give their newlyweds?
I read an interesting Article (Jan2013 Scientific American) about a Carbon Exoplanet discovered, which has more Carbon in its planetary makeup than Oxygen. Here on Earth, we have approximately .01% carbon, and some 20% oxygen- meaning we are an oxygen/silica rich planet, the majority of our rocks being silica/oxygen silicates.
On this Diamond Planet, The Rocks are not rock(silica)-based as we would call them, but Carbon based.. Graphite as the sand and dirt, And deeper down, where the pressures are just right: Diamond bedrock. Seriously.
They would throw away Diamonds like we would throw away... gravel. In fact, they may view Granite or Quartz the way we would see Diamonds, simply due to its rarity or outright absence on their world.
Its hard to believe, but alien visitors from their world may marvel at the sparkly shiny silicates just laying everywhere all over our beaches, the same as we would marvel at the diamonds all over every square inch of their gray beaches.
It opens my eyes to what "a different life supporting planet" could truly imply. If the very bedrock of the crust could be so different from what I thought a "crust" could even be in my limited experience, just imagine how different evolved LIFE could be under such fundamentally different origins!
But to the question; if it was a Diamond planet, with Carbon as common as Silicon is here, what would THEY view as a "Diamond engagement ring"? And would we find that silly?
And what would that mean if we ever began trading with Galactic Civilizations? They will glady trade us Iridium and Helium3, and Unobtanium by the megaton for... Sand?
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- SpartanCanuckLv 78 years ago
If that carbon planet is mostly diamond, it means that there was an "issue" during its formation which subjected the whole works to massive compression. For example, it might very well have been a carbon-producing star at one point, which has had its lighter elements stripped away by a high-mass companion like a pulsar.
Aliens living on such a planet would probably most value a ticket off of that hellscape.
- Anthony KLv 48 years ago
Lodar is right, even on a carbon planets, diamonds would be rare.
And, Diamonds are valuable due to their extreme tolerance and hardness, not to rarity.
In the same way that gold is valuable, even though it is no where near the rarest metal.
This things have valuable due to their ability to withstand chemical reactions and deterioration, i.e. they last a really long time.
If value were based solely on rarity, We would have Actinium or Iridium bands for weddings and stones of meteorite iron.
- 8 years ago
Wow. That is just insane! Like you said how they would find granite or Quartz as majestic they might give their loved one a Quartz as the diamond and theyd mold the quartz into the band..which would look quite awkward to any human. Yes we would find that very silly. But since their plant has an abundance of Diamonds they'd find us insane. Theyd probaly go crazy with our Sand since it ( i believe) becomes glass.
- 8 years ago
It still requires tremendous pressure for diamonds to form, which would make them rare even on a world containing lots of carbon.
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- ?Lv 58 years ago
well, their planet is all diamond and probably next to no dirt. so for it's rarity; dirt, of course.
