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Old 14-April-2007, 12:04 AM
Jason Thompson Jason Thompson is offline
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And what better way to create a rapture or great chastisement then by blowing up a gas giant like Saturn with 72 pounds of plutonium,
Yes, I'm sure 72 pounds of non-fissionable plutonium would be just the right amount to detonate over one billion billion billion pounds of Saturn.

Did none of these people notice how conspicuously the Galieleo probe failed to do this with jupiter, despite the same predictions being made back then?

It's just a rather more extreme version of nuclear-phobia. Cassini has nuclear material onboard, therefore it must be part of some EEEEEEVIL plot....

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create a new star and then heat-up the new star's moon, Titan, making it habitable by 2033 for guess who?
Firstly I can't see anything orbiting that close to a star being very habitable, and secondly heating it will just turn Titan from a cold hydrocarbon covered wateland into a warm hydrocarbon covered wasteland. Where will the oxygen magically come from to make it habitable?

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To make matters even worse, the name Cassini is taken from a Jesuit-trained Italian astronomer named Cassini,
My god, they really just derived the name Cassini frmo a guy called Cassini? That's incredible....
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