Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Zeon Cowboy
Do you know how huge the planet Jupiter is? It would take a hundred thousand nuclear bombs detonated at once to have any kind of significant effect.

Wasn't Shoemaker-Levy on the order of 100 Megatons? It had a dramatic and visible effect.

It is hard to see anything puny humankind can do would any noticable effect on Jupiter.

67 posted on 04/11/2007 9:03:21 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]


To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Zeon Cowboy

In fact, the photo of Jupiter in post #27 shows the after effects of the Schoemaker-Levy impact. (The white round spots in the “Southern” hemisphere.)


69 posted on 04/11/2007 9:49:04 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson