Did nasa accidentally “nuke” jupiter?

[VXR]

This link is what i found on a news site

check it out

http://www.enterprisemission.com/NukingJupiter.html

a new sun maybe?

[bn880]

Did you want to summarize that? There is no way that the spacecraft caused a Nuclear reaction... if that's what these ppl are getting at.

EDIT: The scale of the phenomenon is so far out of proportion to anything a space probe could trigger...

[Placebo]

Please make a proper post out of this, not simply posting a link, if not the thread will be closed.

[Kegetys]

Interesting theory, I saw those pics of the jupiter spots some time ago.

The Galileo did carry _alot_ of plutonium if I remember correctly, but I dont still think it could have caused anything that big...

[bn880]

Not only is the scale of such a blast out of proportion ot this spot, but also that material is not going to just all of a sudden decide to have a nuclear reaction because it enters jupiter.

If they did anything silly then they would have to try hard to pull it off.

[walker]

Hi all

The argument in the site is well written.

I think the continuous implosive ability of an atmosphere is better than the milisecond squeeze of a normal explosive nuclear trigger. Making even a crude device more explosive than a normall high grade nuclear bomb.

You might even get a reactor type event where you got a slow cooking of the plutonium at a sub explosive level possibly for days. Such a point heat source might cause convection of lower level gases up to the suface. I think it would be worth doing the math on the potential energy yeild of such a sub explosive device

I would like more proof the black spot exists though before considering this as a possible source of such a phenominon.

Kind Regards Walker

[Wilco]

Cool ***

Too bad we can't populate certain spots of Jupiter if we ever do.

[Tex [USMC]]

It's actually a fairly interesting article; normally I don't hold with boring stuff like astronomy, but I actually managed to make it all the way down to where he started giving formulas and using big words. After that he kind of lost me, but I can vouch for everything up to that point being extremely fascinating.

[Kegetys]

here is an older article "warning" about the possibility of such event...


also, here is the article from space.com about the jupiter spots. It seems the second spot image was one of the jupiter's moons, Ganymede, but the first spot is still without explanation.

[drewb99]

It's the crucial first strike against the Jovians