Jurassic Earth Trilogy Box Set by Logan T Stark

Author:Logan T Stark [Stark, Logan T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LLP London
Published: 2020-03-20T22:00:00+00:00

Diamond Ocean

W ith the lulling hum of the Vulcan drives and turbulence being much less than he’d anticipated, Reece was surprised at how comfortable their journey towards the center of the Earth felt. The engines propelled the Yōgan Koumori at a twenty degree down bubble for the first hour, until they reached a depth of four hundred miles below the Earth’s crust. There, they transitioned from the upper mantle into a planet wide liquid ocean, which Robo Yamamoto explained contained three times the volume of water on the surface, more than all the oceans combined.

During their descent the extreme pressure required the optic arrays protruding from the outer hull to be withdrawn for protection. That’s when the dense matter sonar kicked in, which pinged rhythmically. The viewscreen displayed a surreal purple and violet expanse in which floating black chunks highlighted as each ping sent out a racing wall of sound. The scene reset with each subsequent ping, revealing new chunks, tumbling like asteroids in an ongoing stop-motion picture.

“Are those… diamonds, huge diamonds?” Scarlet asked.

“Ringwoodite diamonds,” Robo Yamamoto replied. “Bigger than a house those ones, some the size of the Ebisu according to these readings. They’re the only things down here too tough to melt.”

“How much would something like that cost?” Scarlet said. “Oh, my… I feel all funny.”

“Hard to say. Only a handful of ultradeep ringwoodite diamonds have ever been discovered. The ones that have been found are only a few millimeters wide with poor clarity. If the larger ones out there are clear, they could be worth trillions. Saying that, it would only take one diamond that big to crash global diamond markets. The reason sand is cheap is because there’s lots of it. There’s a planet out there somewhere where sand is so rare a handful could set you up for life. On that planet, their beaches are made of diamonds and lovers exchange charcoal rings bejewelled with grains of sand.”

“Stupid aliens,” Fang scoffed.

“A beach with diamond sand, now that’s my idea of a vacation,” Scarlet said. “Why don’t we come down here and grab one? We could chip bits off, sell it bit by bit, not flood the markets all at once. I mean, let’s come down here one day and get one, like seriously, let’s do it.”

“After the way my business is going that might not be such a bad idea. Yamamoto Industries stock lost almost a hundred billion in value in the last week alone. Honestly, I had no idea diamonds this big were down here, or that there would be so many. This is the first submantle Yamamoto Industries has built. It was only completed a few months ago. Much of what we’re seeing is completely new to science. We’re all pioneers together, like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.”

“Wait, are you saying you haven’t tested this thing?” Razak said, aghast.

“She’s working as we knew she would, according to the specs and simulations we ran,” the robot reassured. “Long range sensors have already confirmed we’ve passed under and evaded two submantles.

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