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Did NASA Accidentally 'Nuke' Jupiter?
"At this point, one of the capsules randomly implodes . and initiates, via the resulting shockwave and intense neutron shower, a runaway nuclear chain reaction in all the other surviving capsules, now spread in a spherical falling "cloud" a few tens of miles across ~700 miles below Jupiter's visible "surface." The resulting cascade nuclear detonation of all the surviving capsules totals several tens of kilotons .. The simultaneous detonation of over 40 lbs of plutonium-238, over 700 miles below Jupiter's cloud tops, instantly creates a superheated "bubble" of "million-degree plasma" deep inside Jupiter, tens miles across." Even if this happened - what would be the point? So little (!) energy would most likely not be visible from Earth. Unless of course you expected to start a fusion burn. |
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