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Originally Posted by ravens_cry
Be glad, the cold Jupiter we do have protects us from comets and asteroids. Also, IIRC, hot Jupiter's tend to destroy the orbits of smaller planets as they cruise inward. Or at least thats what some computer simulations say.
Be glad.
Also, sending a rover to Venus would be different because you couldn't keep cool by keeping your radiator in the dark, like in a vacuum. At least that's my guess anyway.
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Oh, I understand now.
But you can still keep the interior with temperature sensitive things somewhat cool, I've read about a possible Venus rover project somewhere at the net.
But if we had a hot jupiter, we could have a cold jupiter too and yes, inner planets might be disturbed, but might not be and when they are disturbed, some big formerly "cold jupiter" with big moons containing rock and ice could migrate to an Earthlike orbit and create a nice system with habitable moons arounds a super jupiter in the habitable zone, an interesting hot jupiter close to the sun and a cold jupiter in the outer system to protect from comets.