Did NASA Accidentally “Nuke” Jupiter?

The Enterprise Mission ^ | 11/6/2003 | Richard C. Hoagland

[DeepDish]

Actually, the Regal Arean Force (RAF) shot those two down.

[beezdotcom]

Did Hoagland forget to pay his bill? I see that his web site has been taken over by a squatter....

[Yo-Yo]

Did Hoagland forget to pay his bill? I see that his web site has been taken over by a squatter....

I dunno, I see that as well. It was there yesterday...

[beezdotcom]

LOL...here's the whois entry:

Billing Contact:
The Enterprise Mission
Richard Hoagland (info@enterprisemission.com)
505-771-0820
Fax: 505-771-0820
P.O. Box 1130
Placitas, NM 87043
US
Status: registrar-lock

Creation date: 04 Dec 1998 00:00:00

Expiration date: 03 Dec 2003 00:00:00

He can figure out the many ways NASA has screwed up, but he can't find a way to pay the bill on time...

[Yo-Yo]

It appears that Mr. Hoagland has found his checkbook.

[beezdotcom]

Or, more accurately, Dr. Falkov found Hoagland's checkbook....

Billing Contact:
TheEnterprisemission
Robin Falkov (DrRobinFalkov@aol.com)
+1.15053321162
Fax: +1.15053321164
P.O. 52017
Albuquerque, NM 87181
US

Status: registrar-lock

Creation date: 04 Dec 1998 00:00:00
Expiration date: 03 Dec 2004 00:00:00

Interesting that they only renewed it for a year. I'm guessing he doesn't want to stick his neck out much beyond that...

[theFIRMbss]

New Blue Ring On Jupiter Puzzles Astronomers On: Mon March, 8 2004 @ 07:28 GMT Something interesting is happening on the planet Jupiter, and astronomers are not yet sure what it could mean. About two weeks ago, a Spanish amateur astronomer noticed a large blue streak in the southern hemisphere of the planet. The blue streak, which is 3-4 times the diameter of the earth, has now stretched around the planet forming a blue ring. An Amazing Disturbance In Jupiter's Clouds..... It is a very elongated, bluish streak that runs along the interface of the dark South Equatorial Belt. The first hint that that something unusual was taking place in the cloudy Jovian atmosphere came from Spanish amateur when he reported that a small, bicolored feature was formingt in the Southern Hemisphere a little over2 weeks ago. NOW, this disturbance has stretched, what looks like, right around the planet! At the moment it's too early to be sure of the nature of this disturbance or its potential evolution. The wide band shown on the photograph could, quite easily measure, 3-4 times the diameter of the Earth! Although Jupiter has, in the past, produced some unusual upper cloud features, nothing like this has ever been seen before! This is still breaking news. Currently scientists are still waiting and watching to see what becomes of this new formation on Jupiter. Astronomer David Reneke, consulting editor of Sky and Space Magazine says that it will probably be on the front cover of their next magazine release in about two weeks. He speculates that it could be a volcano or another disturbance on Jupiter causing a change in the clouds, but no one really knows what it is at this time.

[VadeRetro]

Many we have raised ourselves – like the low probability of Galileo’s plutonium even surviving entry – at 108,000 miles per hour! – to reach the necessary “crush depth” for implosion.

Meteors burn up in our thin gas atmosphere. Galileo, coming in at such a high speed into Jupiter's thicker-than-soup mix, would utterly vaporize before it could slow down.

[PatrickHenry]

What's going on?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

And the reaction stopped when funding was cut.

[longshadow]

What's going on?

Just RCH looking for more publicity, I'd guess.

[theFIRMbss]

>What's going on?

Here's an excerpt from
Sky & Telescope's report
from the start of this.

(Although I haven't
done the math, my impression
is that enough mass

to shade a whole band
around Jupiter must be
a whole lotta mass . . .

And if we're seeing
just the top, ejected mass,
then whatever's up

down under the clouds
must be turmoil on a scale
that is staggering . . .)

An unusual disturbance has appeared on Jupiter at the interface of the South Equatorial Belt (SEB) and the Equatorial Zone (EZ). It's visible as a very elongated bluish feature, highlighted in the center image above. The feature's bluish hue is more pronounced when it's near Jupiter's limb but is quite subtle when crossing the central meridian.

This disturbance was first detected on February 26, 2004, by European amateurs. On the 29th the new feature was some 40° long (in longitude) and was transiting Jupiter's central meridian about 2.5 hours before the Great Red Spot (GRS). Based on this estimate, you can use our GRS calculator to determine the approximate transit times of this disturbance on the next few nights. The time difference between the new feature and the GRS will increase slowly because features in Jupiter's EZ rotate slightly faster than the GRS.

[RadioAstronomer]

This is TOTAL codswallop! Pu₂₃₈ is not fissionable. Pu₂₃₉ is the weapons grade material and was never flown the Galileo spacecraft.

[RightWhale]

All they saw, if there was anything to see and it wasn't a coincidental meteorite hitting Jupiter about the same time, was a small dark spot that faded soon. Extrapolating to plutonium fusion is a stretch even if it were weapons grade material.

[longshadow]

This is TOTAL codswallop! Pu238 is not fissionable. Pu239 is the weapons grade material and was never flown the Galileo spacecraft.

Too funny.

RCH makes a fool of himself yet again. He should stick with the Face on Mars, or the Pimple on Uranus.

[RadioAstronomer]

Extrapolating to plutonium fusion is a stretch even if it were weapons grade material.

Agreed. :-)

[RadioAstronomer]

RCH makes a fool of himself yet again.

LOL! Indeed.

[RadioAstronomer]

Freepmail

[RightWingAtheist]

I'd say Hoagland is about as much an expert on the Galileo craft as Christy Brinkley was an expert on the Brookhaven LHC.

[RadioAstronomer]

I think you gave Hoagland wayyyy to much credit. :-)