You read correctly, Earthlings, Neptune and Uranus may have shimmering seas of liquid diamond ! With giant diamond icebergs floating around in them. Aaaand I just claimed both planets for my own. I’m gonna be rich as shit you filthy little peasants! The idea that there are oceans of liquid diamond inside Neptune and Uranus is not a new idea, said Tom Duffy, a planetary scientist at Princeton University. The new Nature Physics article makes diamond oceans “look more and more plausible,” said Duffy. More research on the composition of Neptune and Uranus is needed before a truly definitive conclusion can be made, however, and this kind of research is very difficult to conduct. I dunno. You can read a much more in-depth analysis of the data if you hit the link to the Discovery article, but it all sounds a little bit iffy to me. But is that gonna stop me from flying my spaceship straight through those bitches with my hands out the window? It is not. Diamond Oceans Possible on Uranus, Neptune [discovery] Thanks to wes g, who [insert joke about diamonds in Uranus here].

Oh man, I love David Attenborough. And I know a certain lil girl who loves Jane Goodall. And now they’re BOTH featured in the latest Symphony of Science, ‘The Unbroken Thread’. This is a good one. Especially Jane Goodall’s part when she says, “there isn’t a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom — it’s a very wuzzy line — it’s a very wuzzy line — and it’s getting wuzzy-er all the time time time time time time time . That part gave me the shivers. In my timbers. YAAARR!! Symphony of Science Thanks to Kelly C., whose beats remain the freshest.

In the third installment of the Symphony of Science series comes ‘Our Place In The Cosmos’, a quartet of interplanetary song by Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Michio Kaku and Robert Jastrow. This is definitely the “Barry White” song of the series so far, and there is no doubt in my mind you could make out with a legally blind woman to it. Also, do you think it’s just a coincidence the video is 4:20 long OR IS THE UNIVERSE TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING? Pack the bong, STAT. I’m coming, God! Symphony of Science Project and Youtube Thanks to Jonathan and Kelly C., who once sang into a telescope thinking it was a giant mic.