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geekdom...bigtime
now i'm not sure about you guys, but this is going to be really, really, really, geeky.
i heard the other day on the tv that there is a star, white dwarf, that scientists have discovered that became crystallized carbon once it burned itself out.
i know that white dwarfs are the smallest of extinguished stars, but listen to this.
crystallized carbon, under that kind of heat and pressure, is how diamonds are formed. scientists are saying this star is a SOLID diamond. ok, ladies, heres the biggest news of all...
it supposedly measures around 10 billion trillion trillion carats! and, they say it measures about 4,000 km in diameter. now, i dont profess to be a really smart guy, but thats big.
just how big, you ask? great, i'm glad you asked because that is why i'm posting this. i dont know. but, i would like to know how many zeros are in that number.
i assume trillion has 12 zeros. a trillion trillion? is that 12+12 for 24, or 12 X 12 for 144 zeros? a billion has 9, so is that 9 X 124 for 1,116 friggin zeros?
i dont know about you, but i cant fathom that number. i cant relate it to anything.
can any of you?
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