[NMR Guy]

At this ultra-slow “terminal velocity,” it takes the Galileo plutonium-238 capsules on the order of 700 hours – a month! to fall to a depth inside Jupiter (~700 miles below the visible clouds) where the outside pressure of the surrounding liquid hydrogen literally crushes the plutonium capsules into a supercritical state—

BS, I suspect. Realistically, the pellets end up critical, not supercritical. They then slowly heat up, expand, and fall apart over the course of a few hours or days.

[Oztrich Boy]

Realistically, the pellets end up critical, not supercritical. They then slowly heat up, expand, and fall apart over the course of a few hours or days.

That would happen if it was acutally fissionable Pu-239 instead of Pu-238

Hoagland is nuts

Hoagland served as a "Curator of Astronomy & Space Science" [3] at the "Springfield Museum of Science

[glorgau]

Alien 2 : The only way to be sure is to nuke it from orbit!