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Diamonds are close, but they really aren’t forever. Diamonds are actually unstable at our comfortable temperature and pressure. Every diamond above ground is very, very slowly altering into graphite, another form of pure carbon.

Orang means “man” in Malay and hutan means forest so orangutan means “man of the forest.”

Jupiter has been known as the 'cosmic vacuum cleaner' of the solar system. The planet's mass and large orbit sweeps up the scattered meteors that are relics from the early days of our solar system formation, with the planet either 'taking the bullet' itself, or deflecting orbits away from the inner planets. Many astronomers believe life would not have got started on Earth with Jupiter's influence - and before our solar system settled down, Earth was frequently bombarded with giant impacts. Read more: http://goo.gl/tA0yS