Jupiter is going to explode??

No, no there isn't. Trust me on this one. It's a stupid idea, stolen from the book 2010: Odyssey Two, but without some of the important plot elements that make it contextually plausible in the book.

Jupiter isn't anything near massive enough to become a star, no matter what happens to it.

Pretty much the entire article is garbage. The authors show absolutely no journalistic integrity or scientific knowledge.





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Pravda used to be the official state newspaper of the Soviet Union. It's not exactly out of place in a book that INVOLVES the Soviet Union, written during the COLD WAR. Chances are, they've read the book, and lifted the plot to make an article, assuming that most of their reader base isn't well versed in cold-war era American science fiction. God knows it fits in with the rest of the bilge they drag up.


This project Lucifer stuff really takes the cake, though. It manages to be nonsensical in several whole FIELDS of physics.

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Oops, that's what I meant, 93 Million miles, or there abouts on average.

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NOW THAT'S SOME FUNNY STUFF!!!! You had me cracking up....THANKS!!!!!!!

Hahahaha I don't really think that would help.

According to Bill Cooper, the Galileo Probe, which contains almost 50 lbs of plutonium will eventually fall into Jupiter. He goes on to state that the resulting pressure will cause the plutonium to go critical resulting in a large nuclear explosion that will detonate and ignite the methane and hydrogen in the planets' atmosphere. A small star is the result. I was wondering if this sounded like science fiction to anyone else but me. I dont think that this is possible.

This Bill Cooper is talking out of his arse. The Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere years ago, and the planet probably didn't even notice.

i tend to agree with ya.. jupiter is not a failed star.. it is a star full stop along with saturn.. the reason they are called stars is because they both give off a proton wind which planet do not..

although i am not sure if modern science has it completly right.. to best of my knowledge modern science tends to conect fusion with the mass of a body and that fusion happens in the center of a sun but the fringe sciences which i follow say the fusion happens on the surface due to the pinched current effect.. you choose which side you stand on and believe..

and just a few stats on jupiter.



peace

daz__

Well, I guess it's gonna be another 2012 scenario. Speaking of 2012, if Europa's pole can shift like that, why is Earth exempt?

It need an igntion source, it will require sevral tons of nuclear material o explode in the red eye area. Don't worry we are at a safe distance.

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Earth is not exempt. Siencetist have proven that the poles have changes, shifted, and completely reversed, we re due for the next in 1 to 2 hundred years.