FireTower@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWhat's the Oldest Thing You Own?message-squaremessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down12
arrow-up1101arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the Oldest Thing You Own?FireTower@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squaremaryjayjay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoThe diamond in my wife’s engagement ring is more than a billion years old.
minus-squareRooPappy@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·11 months agoIt would be cool if we could ID which exploding star it came from.
minus-squareArlaerion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 months agoDiamonds are produced in the earth’s crust. The gold in that ring though…
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-211 months agothe elements that eventually ended up in earth’s crust had to come from somewhere and i just realized that by this logic everything is actually as old as the universe
The diamond in my wife’s engagement ring is more than a billion years old.
It would be cool if we could ID which exploding star it came from.
Diamonds are produced in the earth’s crust. The gold in that ring though…
the elements that eventually ended up in earth’s crust had to come from somewhere
and i just realized that by this logic everything is actually as old as the universe