{"id":41321,"date":"2015-11-29T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=41321"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:04:16","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-can-it-rain-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-can-it-rain-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Can it Rain Diamonds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/rough-diamond-solitaire-ring?source=blog_uk112915\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41330 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uk_25602.jpg\" alt=\"Rough Diamond Solitaire Ring | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be on Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune, it sure can! Not that anyone has actually been able to observe this amazing phenomenon first hand, but planetary scientists think it\u2019s likely that the <a title=\"The Gas Giants\" href=\"http:\/\/space-facts.com\/gas-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\">gas giants <\/a>of our solar system feature showers of diamonds along with their other amazing meteorological phenomena. The vast, gaseous spheres of these planets are plentiful in methane and other hydrocarbons. Epic lightning storms turn the methane into concentrations of carbon, which becomes graphite\u2014and then diamond\u2014as it falls through the crushing pressures of the gas giants\u2019 atmospheres. What happens to these showers of Liz Taylor\u2019s dreams? On colder planets like Neptune, they may pile up on the solid surface of the core (if it has one), but on hot giants like Jupiter, they may liquefy toward the core into lakes or seas of amorphous diamond. As the crew of <a title=\"Firefly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0303461\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefly<\/a> might say: <em>shiny!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rough Diamond Solitaire Ring | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/rough-diamond-solitaire-ring?source=blog_uk112915\" target=\"_blank\">Rough Diamond Solitaire Ring<\/a> | $695<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamonds may be forever and a girl&#8217;s best friend, but in certain parts of our Solar system, they&#8217;re just part of the weather forecast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":41333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[80,1511,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41483,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321\/revisions\/41483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}