49 trillion dollars that is the total debt held by the world's governments but
what if I told you that one single thing in our universe could easily pay off all
of the world's debt it may sound like fantasy but it's not it's a real planet
located in space the planet is made totally out of diamonds and it's worth
twenty-nine non million dollars today we're going to look at what's on this
planet if we could get to it what it's worth and also if humans could harvest
the diamonds on it I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at the planet made
of diamonds but before we become non millionaires why not subscribe and press
the notification bell to the day was the 10th of October 2012 astronomers jaws
drop when they realized they discovered a new planet that planet went on to be
called 5/5 Cancri E the planet is double the size of Earth and it's made pretty
much all of diamonds the surface of the planet is covered in graphite and
diamonds unlike earth which is covered with water and granite this one has
diamonds instead most of this planet's mass is pure diamond there's only a few
official images of this planet and as you can see it kind of looks like a very
red hot ball you can't see any shiny diamonds on it from this photograph and
the reason why it looks like a volcano planet is because it's very near to its
host star its host star is called 5/5 concrete a and it's said to be much much
more hot than the Sun but when the planet is pointing at its host star you
can see it fully litter and when it's fully lit up it turns into a blue color
which is the Diamonds and graphite on this planet the planet was discovered in
Texas United States and it was turned with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope the
telescope had detected hydrogen and helium but oddly no water vapor was
detected this led to them discovering this planet known as a super earth
apparently some parts of this planet could be kind of dangerous
that's because it is home to many volatile materials for example lots of
carbon dioxide all of the water and hydrogen we have on earth is replaced
with carbon dioxide on this planet this means it's very carbon-rich
but not very oxygen-rich and there's also no water vapor in the atmosphere or
55 Cancri E sorry vapors however this planet is the
first time in atmosphere of a super-earth exoplanet has ever been
analysed successfully NASA was able to use infrared observations to check out
this planet in great detail but be warned on this planet is a gigantic
global lava ocean however this planet does have chemicals similar to that of
the Earth's atmosphere these include nitrogen and possibly
oxygen but let's get to the thing we're all thinking about the money
what exactly is 55 Cancri E worth the answer is 29 non million dollars that
probably doesn't mean much to you because you can't visualize such a big
number but here it is written down as you can see it's the number 29 with 30
zeros the biggest number you've probably ever thought of is one trillion that is
a 1 with 12 zeros but all of that money could completely change how we live on
earth the entire GDP of the world is 70 trillion dollars this means the money
made by the world is 70 trillion which does sound like a lot but this means
that 55 kangri ii is 384 quadrillion times the world GDP and it also means
that if we could get to this planet and extract the diamonds we could easily pay
off the debt of the world right now governments around the world have 49
trillion dollars worth of debt but that would only be 0.018 2 percent of this
planet's worth Earth rotates around this planet once
every year that means on 5/5 Cancri E time is totally different as to how we
know it what is 1 day for us on earth would be 1 year on that planet but how
exactly did a scientist get the number 29 million well it's easy you need to
first get the raw time and value 1 kilogram of raw diamonds is worth a cool
1.5 million dollars and 55 Cancri e's diamond mass is this number on screen
right now to put it simply that's three times the mass of the earth if you
multiply these numbers that means the value of this planet is 29
million dollars if we were to split this planet up amongst the seven billion
humans on earth we'd all be multi Multi multi trillionaire in fact we would be
much much more than trillionaires in fact everyone on earth would at least be
an octillion heir to put that into perspective here's the list of how those
number rankings go but you're probably thinking if this could make us all super
rich and solve all the world's problems why don't we go there well there's a few
issues first off is can we actually get to the planet if we wanted to go to the
planet we'd have to figure out how to survive in the temperatures on the
planet five five cankering E is 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit that's 2200 degrees
Celsius of course this is too hot for any human being no matter how much gear
we put on them and it's also too hot for any technology that exists right now not
only that this planet is very far away 40 light-years to be exact
to put that in miles that's 230 trillion miles so it's more or less impossible to
actually get to this planet but another issue with this planet's worth is supply
and demand remember I calculated the worth of the planet based on how much
one kilogram of diamonds costs right now but the only reason the kilogram of
diamonds cost 1.5 million right now is because they're very rare if we had a
whole planet full of diamonds then the rarity would drop and the
supply would go up and with the supply going up the demand would decrease
driving the price way down so sadly this planet is not going to solve all of our
problems any time soon but it is still pretty cool to know that a planet made
totally of diamonds exists in space not only that if we were able to build a
suit or maybe some take which could survive the heat humans could live on
this planet this planet is classified as a super earth planet or an exoplanet but
on the subject of extraterrestrial diamonds did you know that Russia is
hiding something from the rest of the world recently a gigantic asteroid
filled with diamonds crashed in Russia inside the asteroid is more diamonds
than the rest of the world has combined but amazingly Russia was able to get a
hold of this asteroid that fell in their country inside the asteroid is trillions
worth of of diamonds the asteroid made a gigantic
crater in the regions of Siberia Russia and inside it there's enough diamonds to
power the global market for the next three thousand years this is very
crucial because diamonds aren't just used on things like rings they're also
used in lasers and technological innovations they can also be used to
attain nuclear fusion so if the global stock ever depletes then we all need to
go to Russia as they have more diamonds than anyone else in the world combined
but now it's time to make your voice heard would you want to take a trip into
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