Comments on: … in the sky, with diamonds http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Primeras imágenes del asteroide Steins visto de cerca : Blogografia /version beta/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116928 Primeras imágenes del asteroide Steins visto de cerca : Blogografia /version beta/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:24:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116928 [...] grande como para haber causado la destrucción de asteroide, aunque Phil Plait especula en … in the sky, with diamonds con la posibilidad de que Šteins no sea sólido del todo sino que esté formado por una amalgama [...] [...] grande como para haber causado la destrucción de asteroide, aunque Phil Plait especula en … in the sky, with diamonds con la posibilidad de que Šteins no sea sólido del todo sino que esté formado por una amalgama [...]

]]> By: Selección Digital» microsiervos.com » Primeras imágenes del asteroide Steins visto de cerca http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116925 Selección Digital» microsiervos.com » Primeras imágenes del asteroide Steins visto de cerca Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:10:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116925 [...] grande como para haber causado la destrucción de asteroide, aunque Phil Plait especula en … in the sky, with diamonds con la posibilidad de que Šteins no sea sólido del todo sino que esté formado por una amalgama [...] [...] grande como para haber causado la destrucción de asteroide, aunque Phil Plait especula en … in the sky, with diamonds con la posibilidad de que Šteins no sea sólido del todo sino que esté formado por una amalgama [...]

]]> By: Nentuaby http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116412 Nentuaby Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:24:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116412 Figurative speech is the soul of artistic English writing. Would people, however, for the love of GOD PLEASE STOP SAYING "literally [figurative descriptor]". That is <i>exactly wrong</i>. I thought you were talking, as you stated, about a whacking great carbon crystal. Figurative speech is the soul of artistic English writing. Would people, however, for the love of GOD PLEASE STOP SAYING “literally [figurative descriptor]“. That is exactly wrong.

I thought you were talking, as you stated, about a whacking great carbon crystal.

]]> By: StevoR - CORRECTION http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116173 StevoR - CORRECTION Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:20:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116173 CORRECTION for typos , spacing etc .. Coz Icasn't @#@$$@#!!!%#@@!#@ ediut here. :-( ________________________ StevoR Says: September 8th, 2008 at 1:16 am Yep, <b>Shane,</b> Arthur C. Clarke’s novels <i> ‘Space Odyssey 2010′ & ‘2061′ </i> both featured the (hypothetical) Jovian diamond core (or fragments thereof landning onEuropa!) .. & the "Lucy in the Sky with Drugs ..er ..Diamonds" line. THX <b>Bad Astronomer</b> I’ve been dying (A METAPHOR - OK!) to hear how the Rosetta Steins encounter went & glad it wasn’t too close leaving Rosetta as a stain on Steins! Great to hear this news and that its gone so well - there’s been nothing in the South Aussie papers or TV news on this but I knew you wouldn’t let me down! :-D 8) CORRECTION for typos , spacing etc .. Coz Icasn’t @#@$$@#!!!%#@@!#@ ediut here. :-(

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StevoR Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Yep, Shane, Arthur C. Clarke’s novels ‘Space Odyssey 2010′ & ‘2061′ both featured the (hypothetical) Jovian diamond core (or fragments thereof landning onEuropa!) .. & the “Lucy in the Sky with Drugs ..er ..Diamonds” line.

THX Bad Astronomer I’ve been dying (A METAPHOR – OK!) to hear how the Rosetta Steins encounter went & glad it wasn’t too close leaving Rosetta as a stain on Steins!

Great to hear this news and that its gone so well – there’s been nothing in the South Aussie papers or TV news on this but I knew you wouldn’t let me down! :-D 8)

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116172 StevoR Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:16:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116172 Yep, Shane, in Clarke's novels 'Space Odyssey 2010' & '2061' both featured the (hypothetical) Jovian diamond core (or fragments therof) .. & the Lucy in the Sky with Drugs ..er ..Diamonds line. THX <b>Bad Astronomer </b> I've ben dying (METAPHOR .OK!) to hear how theRosetta- Steins encounter went & glad itwasn't too close leaving Rosetta as astain onSteins! ;-) Great to hear this news and that its gone so well - there's been nothing in the South Aussie papers or TV news on this but I knew you wouldn't let me down! :-D 8) Yep, Shane, in Clarke’s novels ‘Space Odyssey 2010′ & ‘2061′ both featured the (hypothetical) Jovian diamond core (or fragments therof) .. & the Lucy in the Sky with Drugs ..er ..Diamonds line.

THX Bad Astronomer I’ve ben dying (METAPHOR .OK!) to hear how theRosetta- Steins encounter went & glad itwasn’t too close leaving Rosetta as astain onSteins! ;-)

Great to hear this news and that its gone so well – there’s been nothing in the South Aussie papers or TV news on this but I knew you wouldn’t let me down! :-D 8)

]]> By: shane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116138 shane Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:51:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116138 Didn't Arthur C. Clarke surmise that the centre of Jupiter is a large earth sized diamond? Didn’t Arthur C. Clarke surmise that the centre of Jupiter is a large earth sized diamond?

]]> By: Harold http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/comment-page-1/#comment-116082 Harold Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:18:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/06/in-the-sky-with-diamonds/#comment-116082 That looks an awful lot like the emblem on Superman's chest. I'm a little fuzzy on this, but at the end of <i>Superman II</i> didn't Supes use a peel-off version of his emblem to re-trap the Kryptonian villains in the Phantom Zone? And then send them spinning off into space again? Where they would be safely trapped, as long as their new prison didn't get a corner whacked off by something? Which would be really, really unlikely in the short-term? Uh-oh... That looks an awful lot like the emblem on Superman’s chest.

I’m a little fuzzy on this, but at the end of Superman II didn’t Supes use a peel-off version of his emblem to re-trap the Kryptonian villains in the Phantom Zone? And then send them spinning off into space again? Where they would be safely trapped, as long as their new prison didn’t get a corner whacked off by something? Which would be really, really unlikely in the short-term?

Uh-oh…

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