The Arkanssouri Blog.: The odd place where one of my arguments meets reality.

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

The odd place where one of my arguments meets reality.

To counter those who gripe about how much space exploration costs, I've often used the following argument:

Other person: "I can't believe they spent all that money to take pictures
of Mars."

Me: "You'd change your mind if those pictures showed diamonds as big as
Volkswagens."




Turns out such a scenario may not be that far divergent from reality.


1 Comments:

Blogger KipEsquire said...

There's a theory that there might be a huge diamond at the core of Jupiter. Arthur C. Clarke addressed the potentiality in (the not very good) "2061: Odyssey Three."

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2270.html

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