# Blowing up Jupiter - revisited.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 28, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450 "2014-05-28T07:19:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450/21 "2017-09-21T09:24:39Z")

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> [@Fishtar](#):
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> But, i have read that layers of deuterium may well, exist fairly close to the surface. And that 2/3 of the planet is composed of metallic liquid hydrogen. And that some cold fusion is already naturally occurring.

Cold fusion? I must have missed that discussion. Cold fusion isn’t a thing. Do you mean that a vanishingly small number of hydrogen atoms occasionally fuse by chance?

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450/22 "2017-09-22T20:28:48Z")

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I’m glad someone is putting thought into this, I’ve wanted to see Jupiter blown up for decades now. Sitting out there in space all smug, and what does it even need all those moons for?

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**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450/23 "2017-09-22T21:51:21Z")

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Don’t you think that is a liiitle bit to Americentric. I’m quite sure some Slovakians or Chile might have problem, if you (proud nation of USA) blow up Jupiter as they might have some other plans with it. Also Disney.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450/24 "2017-09-22T21:54:36Z")

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Naah. They’d just be pissed 'cuz we did it before they did.

Then again, for all we civilians know, the Chileans’ Jupiter-buster may already be out past Ceres right now and is silently homing in for the second biggest kill in the Solar System. 😃

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-up-jupiter-revisited/689450/25 "2017-09-23T04:20:30Z")

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> [@yo\_han\_go](#):
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> Don’t you think that is a liiitle bit to Americentric. I’m quite sure some Slovakians or Chile might have problem, if you (proud nation of USA) blow up Jupiter as they might have some other plans with it. Also Disney.

Disney’s only going to get upset if we blow up Pluto.

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