It's the end of the world

[SpiralDragon]

AFAIR its has an Ice core

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by TDB


isn´t jupiter all atmosphere and nothing else?

That's what I hear.

Taking a ship into that planet would be the coolest thing ever. Especially if the ship was the Millenuim Falcon!

I want to be the first guy to find out if the planet has a core! (or life!)

[The PIT]

Oh why not try something bigger than Jupiter how about a black hole.

[ZokesPro]

N'ah, I find Jupiter FAR more fascinating!

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
N'ah, I find Jupiter FAR more fascinating!

And you might stand half a chance of coming back!

[The PIT]

But you also may find an alternative Universe if you play around witha black hole.

[ZokesPro]

True, but then again I could be horribly crushed by the incredible gravitational pull!

[The PIT]

Well if you flip into an alternative universe you may end up being uncrushed. This is getting silly isn't it?

[ZokesPro]

Who really knows what would happen, maybe it just opens a doorway into sub-space and you end up dying of old age in some sort of "void".

But yeah, you right, this is getting a little silly.

P:S: So close to my Super-MURCer status too!

[SpiralDragon]

heh... i only achived achived MURCerhood 3 posts ago... too bad viewing dont count since i dont usualy like to engage in conversation... just like to see what ppl are saying.. and in any event most of what needs to be said is eventualy said ..... i wish i could go through an alternate universe and find that my Imigration aplication to Canada has been aproved..... why is it taking so long... been 9 month now and no answer yet

[KvHagedorn]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/jupiter/interior.html

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by SpiralDragon
heh... i only achived achived MURCerhood 3 posts ago... too bad viewing dont count since i dont usualy like to engage in conversation... just like to see what ppl are saying.. and in any event most of what needs to be said is eventualy said ..... i wish i could go through an alternate universe and find that my Imigration aplication to Canada has been aproved..... why is it taking so long... been 9 month now and no answer yet

Dude, yu are gpoing to like Canada. True I haven't lived anywhere else but if I love it so much here then why leave?

Why don't you just re-apply? or check up on it?

[Ant]

The solar system is one hell of a crowded place take a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2153775.stm">look at this</a>

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Ant
The solar system is one hell of a crowded place take a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2153775.stm">look at this</a>

Where's the solar maid? She's supposed to be here by now! She 1034 years late! (which is like 5 minutes in universe time)

[Technoid]

Originally posted by RedRed
You are assuming that we could do a number of things Gurm

1 Hit it! Not as easy as it sounds! Assuming that this thing has a relative velocity (to the missile flying twords it) of perhaps 200 000 KPH!!! that is a hard target! its only 2 miles across

It don’t have to “hit” it

2 The structure of it. If it is made up of a loose collection of debris, your explosion will have negligable effect - the micro gravity of the chunk could re claim as much as 90% of the mass..... If its solid - you dont want 1000 50Meter bits hitting the earth in a spray - probably more damage!

Please study your physics a little more, think rocket engines and you’ll get it

3 you have to develop a nuke which could hit this surface - and SURVIVE long enough to explode- no current tech could do that....

Says Who?

4 You are assuming that it is not a black body and 20 times the size. If it is we are truly shagged.

Again, think rocket engine

5 The size of a nuke big enough to vaporise 2 cubic kilometres of a solid material could be bigger that the worlds COMBINED nuke stockpile!!!

I think I already covered this in the soup can example (not to mention what Gurm mentioned )

6 where Drizzt is coming from is Valid - if a bit wrong.. You can’t detonate the nuke NEAR the asteroid - you need a mass to react it off against - spraying the asteroid in hard radiation won’t deflect or destroy the asteroid. You probably couldn’t build a missile with enough reaction mass to sacrifice in your nuke to deflect the asteroid significantly. Remember you need to transport the reaction material in the rocket. The velocity the missile and the momentum it can withstand (maundering towards such a small target) would be dependant upon truly massive propulsion systems and a stupendous amount of reaction fuel - I would be surprised if there was the ability to build such a beast in a reasonable timeframe


the only chance - if it is going to hit - is a deflection.... A C Clarke discussed this in some of his Sci Fi books -
Possibly a deflection shot with ion motors 5 years out might do the trick.... that would be your best bet.

It still only has to get within reasonable distance and detonate!
If the bomb is engineered to emit its reaction mass as HEAT it can easily evaporate anything necessary! (Think “supernova”)