So, what do they want to do about it, destroy Jupiter?
Yeah, like that would solve the problem.
Scientist, can’t live with them, but could we try living without them?
“Mr. President, the good news is we’ve destroyed Jupiter. The bad news is, we now have a thousand pieces of Jupiter on earth-intersecting trajectories.”
Sure you can ... if you would care to return to the 25 year expected lifepsan of humans before civilization arose.