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Diamond buildings, bones, and mechanical parts don't sound like a particularly good idea. Just because diamond is hard doesn't mean that it will be better than steel or titanium as a structural material. Diamond is very brittle. It doesn't bend well. If the Twin Towers were made of diamond, they probably would have shattered into a billion pieces the moment the planes flew into them. No time to evacuate.


Indeed, hardness does not equal strength. "Strong enough to bend" is a phrase that comes to mind.


Not to mention the fact that diamond is very flammable, being 100% pure coal. Any fire in such a building would devour it within minutes.


Coal is made of carbon. Diamonds are made of carbon. But diamonds are NOT made of coal.


Huh, learned some new things:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_diamonds_flammable Says diamonds are combustible around 1520 degrees.

But temperatures were 1000 degrees at the high-point in the 9/11 events (page 10 end of first paragrah): http://eagar.mit.edu/EagarPapers/Eagar185.pdf

Interesting enough. The bigger issue would have certainly been the buildings crumbling before they ever burst into flames/disintegrated.




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