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Did NASA Accidentally “Nuke” Jupiter?

2 pointsby quakeguyalmost 9 years ago

2 comments

walrus01almost 9 years ago
This is ridiculous tinfoil hat bullshit - a radioisotope thermoelectric generator with encapsulated pellets is NOTHING like a "fat man" design atomic bomb.
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tristanjalmost 9 years ago
Nope. The Galileo spacecraft only carried 7.8 kilograms of Plutonium. That blue smudge is about the size of planet earth. There's no way that amount of plutonium made a cloud that big.