{"id":1338,"date":"2013-09-07T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2013-09-07T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:32:47","slug":"diamonds-discovered-on-the-moon-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/07\/diamonds-discovered-on-the-moon-and-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds Discovered on the Moon and Mars!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Hallelujah! Finally something worth going to Mars for. That intrepid little Mars rover, Curiosity, has reported back with a major discovery–DIAMONDS!<\/p>\n

Well, okay, one diamond. Maybe. If it’s not quartz. And if it’s not a chunk of plastic that fell off the rover.<\/p>\n

But the concept is exciting. Suppose a rover bumped into a great big huge boulder and then took a good photographic look at it and sent the result back to earth and lo and behold, a diamond as big as a doggone washing machine!<\/p>\n

Holy smokes! Every nation would rush to send a manned mission, if only to chip a few chunks off that baby for making jewelry for Britain’s Royals or some Hollywood starlet. Multinational conglomerate corporations would vie to be the first to stick a flag in the dirt and stake a mining claim. Then yahoo! We’d be back in space in a big way.<\/p>\n

Oh well. One can dream, anyway.<\/p>\n

And then again, there may be a dark side to diamonds in space. For instance, in my short story, The Treasure of Purgatory Crater<\/a>, mysterious deaths occur on the moon and a man is driven mad by…you guessed it.<\/p>\n

Now, I may have spoiled part of the fun of reading “Treasure” but there’s more to the story than what I’ve given away. Check it out. It’s one of my personal favorites.<\/p>\n

And oh, yes. It’s got a girl in it who knows who her best friends are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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