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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
I don't think my jaw muscles are working; I can't stop gaping.
Even when Arthur C Clarke came up with the idea (admittedly with unobtainium, rather than plutonium) I couldn't figure out how it could be done, since you'd have to increase Jupiter's mass by 75 times before it became a proper star.
Now this guy's saying that they're trying to do it with Saturn? Which is a third the size of Jupiter? with 75 pounds of plutonium? I'm not even sure you could make a decent dirty bomb with 75 pounds of plutonium.
It has to be a joke. Why else use Clarke's name for the new star?
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Have you read the rest of the site? Its either for real or such a good parody as to be indistinguishable from the real thing.
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EDIT: Just in case I get cornered on this, I should ask: is it actually possible to create a sustained fusion reaction in the atmosphere of a gas giant?
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Not unless you happen to be able to make fusion occur at far lower temperatures and pressures than is normally possible or you are able to compress the entire planet.