On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blow up or ignite Jupiter, creating a miniature sun, the moons become new planets.
Ever since reading this idea in A.C.Clark's 2010, I have wondered if this was possible. Could gas giants be ignited? If it were possible, would the moons become new planets?
Any weird thoughts about how a planetary change like that might effect a
solar system's space ecology? (I'm reasonably sure would be a space
ecology we don't recognize, yet.
Miron,
As the following columns of badly-aligned, context-free numbers that I collected from an obscure government web site clearly show, Jupiter is clearly the cause of the impending collapse of Social Security, not to mention serious perturbations in the orbits of nearby planets:
Mercury 103.3% Venus 100.9% Earth 100.0% Mars 97.3% Asteroids 101.5% Jupiter 112.2% Saturn 98.6% Uranus 87.1% Neptune 96.6% Pluto 101.1% Nemesis 75.6%
Need I say more?
Dave
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