A closer look
Extreme atmospheric pressure and intense lightning storms on Jupiter and Saturn transform atmospheric methane gas into solid carbon soot, which hardens into chunks of graphite and eventually diamonds as it falls toward the planetary core. Our solar system's two largest gas giants are essentially running the universe's most aggressive and lethal jewelry heist. It is estimated that thousands of tons of diamonds rain down on Saturn every single year, proving that nature is completely fine with wasting unimaginable luxury on giant spheres of toxic gas where no one can appreciate it. While humans spend entire life savings to put a shiny rock on a ring finger to prove they are capable of monogamy, the universe is out there pelting unbothered gas giants with millions of carats of pure bling, just to ultimately melt them down into liquid carbon in the core like an absolute sociopath
