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To: theFIRMbss
The theory is, this project creates "Lucifer!"

Plutonium fuel on Galileo reacts to the high pressure, and like a small match starting a big forest fire, ignites Jupiter!

Possible if the ignition explosion is deep enough.
It would not be a steady state sun, becuse Jupiter is not dense enough. It would heat up and expand as it did. Eventually, the density would become too light to sustain fusion and would "go out". The Jupiter Sun would then begin to collapse, releasing gravitational energy as heat and light. It is possible that it would re-ignite spontaneously when it had fully collapsed.

43 posted on 09/15/2003 9:49:00 AM PDT by and the horse you rode in on (Put some ice on that)
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To: and the horse you rode in on
Would there even be anything left of the planet at that point?
44 posted on 09/15/2003 11:15:20 AM PDT by inquest (We are NOT the world)
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