Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 27, 2015

That’s because back in Colonnial times, water was often worse for you than booze

Can one even find a chameleon that small while it’s in camouflage?

3.7 gallons/year * 128oz/gallon / 365 days/year = 1.2 oz per day. That’s nowhere near 7 shots/day.

They can make that claim about a diamond core easily. Who’s going to prove them wrong? :)

that illustration of the ‘Colonial American’ is a striking resemblance of the art of the great Jack Davis

Who would want that diamond? It would take you 50 years at the speed of light to get it, and 50 years to get it back. That would mean that everyone you ever knew and loved would have been dead when you got back. No, thanks!

As a result of all that liquor they couldn’t count. Or more likely it’s what they told the wife when they got back from the tavern: ’Jjust the one, beloved!"

That diamond one is ridiculous. Let’s not have speculation presented as facts, ok?

Aww, tiny chamy!

A White Dwarf is a star that is mostly composed of carbon and in which there is no longer any fusion going on. The carbon, which in this case is called degenerate matter, is compacted into a tight crystalline structure, ergo, a diamond.

The core of a sun is where the fusion process takes place. Hydrogen atoms are smashed together to form helium. When the hydrogen is depleted, the helium is fused to form carbon and oxygen. All this is done in heat and pressure that we can not really comprehend. I guess it’s possible that there is a diamond there, but I have never heard of such a thing in all my reading of stars’ internal processes. They don’t mention the type of star. Is it a neutron star? White dwarf? Black dwarf? With a diamond core, it isn’t an active star like our Sol.

Since a carat is a unit of weight, and weight is a function of gravity, a diamond of that weight could be any size depending on the strength of the gravitational field. If it were small enough to lift (say, fist-size) you’d have a tough time picking it up.

If I’m wrong, “never mind”.

For all of you wondering about the diamond one, scientists use data from a spectrometer, which gives hint about elements present in a material, to make inferences about an objects’ composition. Works well with exoplanets too, that’s how they find out so much about them.