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Idle curiosity.
Dec. 21st, 2009 12:19 amDo you think we could set the atmosphere of Venus on fire? How about a gas giant, like Jupiter?
I have reasons for asking this. I'm just sort of dully interested. It came to me when Woof and I were watching a program involving trying to find scientific ways to blow up a planet, and they mentioned atomics. I remembered the Manhattan Project, where they were genuinely afraid they'd burn off the Earth's atmosphere with it.
I wonder if we could do that to, say, Venus. Just to pick a planet with a weird atmosphere. Fwoosh. Do you folk think that could be done? Would it be awesome?
THIS IS JUST IDLE CURIOSITY.
I have reasons for asking this. I'm just sort of dully interested. It came to me when Woof and I were watching a program involving trying to find scientific ways to blow up a planet, and they mentioned atomics. I remembered the Manhattan Project, where they were genuinely afraid they'd burn off the Earth's atmosphere with it.
I wonder if we could do that to, say, Venus. Just to pick a planet with a weird atmosphere. Fwoosh. Do you folk think that could be done? Would it be awesome?
THIS IS JUST IDLE CURIOSITY.
