Check this out...The Hope Diamond Design Contest

[djm195]

How cool is this? Gee, I wonder what the prize is...

http://www.smithsoni...mithsonian/hope.html

[djm195]

 Bummer-- have to pick from three designs. I think most everyone here could design something better....I don't care if it is a HW design.

[Diamondsbylauren]

Amazing stuff - thanks for posting it djm!

Did you guys see the page about the red fluorescence?

[ah2bqat]

oh, yeah.  And did you see the one pear with blue flour? 

The largest diamond so far found in the universe is the size of a small planet and located 50 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered the gigantic stone a few years ago, and they believe the 2,500-mile-wide diamond once served as the heart of a star. It's ten billion trillion trillion carats. The astronomers named it Lucy in honor of the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Read more: http://www.smithsoni...page=2#ixzz0PAbdF1ON

how cool izzat?

[Mikla]

What?  And we haven't organized a rocket trip to visit Lucy yet?   

[oldmancoyote]

Not cool at all - surface temperature of the rest of the star is about 30,000 degrees...

[Mikla]

You've got to use your imagination, OMC.  We'd have our heat-insulated suits on, you know?   

[GIAGirl]

Ummm....I don't like any of those.  Yuck!

[djm195]

I KNOW!!! I'm with you on that one GG. I definitely like the old setting better.

[ah2bqat]

Me, three, guys!  But I sure did see some nice ideas for a tramp stamp!