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[songbird]

... of diamonds. In the planet Mercury.  Or so CNN says.  And if so, it shows how common diamonds are in the universe.  On Uranus and Neptune, it rains diamonds.  And countless solid diamonds that make up many asteroids. And of course, many exo planets we've discovered.  And at least one solid diamond that makes up a planet.

As for in earth, we'll never run out of diamonds, but they still climb higher and higher in cost.  Lab grown ones depreciate very quickly.  But how much will it change once we start mining the asteroids?

[Tinkrbl44]

You might find this surprising, but this is mentioned now and then on the National Geographic, Smithsonian and History channels.  This isn't something that CNN just conjured up recently.

[songbird]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

You might find this surprising, but this is mentioned now and then on the National Geographic, Smithsonian and History channels.  This isn't something that CNN just conjured up recently.

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Diamonds on exo planets and astroids is very well known and old information.  But not the 11 mile layer on Mercury. News to me anyway