Scientists find the first 100 trillion carat diamond 4000 ly away.

 

This gets me to thinking... will a gold rush in space (or diamond rush as the case may be) be the thing that really gets us going in terms of colonization of space.  Let's say there's 10 billion dollars worth of gold found to be easily available on the moon.  If it only costs 9 billion to go there and bring it all back... you've just made a billion dollars.  If you can do it for 5, you've just doubled your money.  Which would be a good investment.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

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