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Originally Posted by glen chapman
Suprised no one has mentioned this...But blowing up Jupiter has been done. See if you can find the novel/film 2010.
The author pulled a white rabbit...used some serious alien technology.
Hey Rodman.....thats also been done lol. H G Wells, The Star.
Glen Chapman...who's read far to much science fiction for his own good
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You forgot to mention that the author is Arthur C. Clarke, might make it easier to find.
If I remember right, the idea was to fuse part of Jupiters hydrogen all the way to iron then let it settle in the core.
Since this would increase the density of the core, it would bring the pressure near the center high enough to start fusion.
I have no idea whether this would actually work to bring the pressute high enough, but it's a lot more plausible that having Galileo trigger anything.