[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.

[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.