That would be a pretty amazing sight. Too bad it's orbiting a pulsar...

True, but in this case though, the pulsar will kill any space explorer long before they reach the planet.

" which you could actually stand on and not be burnt to a crisp."

Thats true but if you really could stand on the star you would be squashed like a bug on the surface due to gravitation, also i suspect it would be a huge cold gas ball much like a supersized Jupiter so no actual surface to stand on.

"That would be a pretty amazing sight. Too bad it's orbiting a pulsar..."

True It has to be amazing. But its nothing uncommon there should be tons of carbon planets out there. Maybe one day when we are old and the Nasa put some telescopes in the gravitational focus of the sun we are going to see planets like this up close.

"I think if the world was willing to go into space for anything at all this would be the biggest reason. 5 billion trillion dollars worth of diamond. Of course then the market would be flooded and it would be like buying a pack of gum."

Diamond is no rare substance like Gold also in a case like this Diamond would be worth as much as sand. I can see Humanity going into space for heavy elements since they have a higher technological use then Diamonds and are rare. Diamonds are special on earth because they dont exist often in the upper layers.

Great news, though we're far from living on other places of the galaxy it's a nice step.

I'd like to see that, a giant diamond for living on.

you know tagging games for some reason always make me lose interest in your threads >_>

That is so cool! I've always been fascinated with space related stuff.

", if it would be possible to just mine the diamond planet to nothing?"

No it wouldnt be possible. First problem you have is mining at all. To dig a hole into a planet sized Diamond is damn hard. Only thing humans could use are explosives. Next problem is transport and where are you going to store that diamond ? Also the main problem is the size . Humans have not nearly enough energy they could use to blast a planet into pieces and transport it somewhere. To mine a planet you would have to take material out of its gravitational influence or else the diamond would fall on its surface. It would take Billions of earths and the combined effort of every planets society and millenia to completly "mine" a planet away.

Also Diamond would be worthless it has no economic sense. Maybe people would start to use Diamond as a material to build houses and streets, bridges. (Not exclusively Diamond ofcourse, maybe with a concrete coating where people dont want to have a Diamond surface.) I still refer to Billions of earths if one earth could magically mine a planet away and take it home it would kill us all. And earth would stop existing.

Sure if we could get there we could mine it (unless it has a dense CO2 Atmosphere like Venus or worse.) I was refering to mine the planet AWAY.

But sending the diamond masses from a star to the other would need so much energy it would be economically useless. Unless there would be a colony around the star anyway. And they would fire a couple of thousend H2 Bombs at once inside the planets crust to send some Surface chunks into orbit. Those chunks could be send onto a path directed to our solar system. Over the course of hundred of thousends of years the chunks eould reach the sun where our ancestors could take the diamond asteroids apart and let them fall onto earth. Maybe coat them with common Carbon so the Diamonds wont burn up. On earth they could be taken out of the sea and be used in the industry to make usable stuff. This scenario could make economical sense. But one thing remains. By the time this is realized we would be able to produce large quantitys of carbon nanotube material with even better properties then Diamond.

Mining in Space makes only sense in the solar system you are currently in. Mining Metall Asteroids between earth and jupiter is a good option one asteroid has more metall then was ever gound on earth and is easy to access compared to earth, once we have sufficient transport capabilities to near space. Diamond mining could only happen if we find a source around sun thats accessible.

Do you have a link for that?

You pretty much said it all. I also think its important people realize:

Diamonds are not that rare. In fact, diamond can be manufactured quite easily. The reason diamonds are so expensive is due to the monopoly certain companies have. My sister in law's father dives for diamonds for a living (west coast of South Africa). He says he literally picks up handfulls of diamonds from the ocean floor - they don't even need to dig or anything.

Heavy elements though - as you point out - are in a different category altogether. They are fused in stars and slowly decay away to become Nikkel, Carbon and other useless things. There is literally a finite supply on this planet (there's quite a lot tbh, but still...), and the only way we can supplement them is by nuclear fusion reactions ($$$ ouch $$$).