in the movie the weird black rectangles started appearing in jupiters atmosphere. it might have had something to do with the aliens creating a sun for europa, which had some kind of organic life on it
Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
If memory served, 2010 ignited Jupiter by crashing Saturn into it. But you’d actually need about 250 Saturns (or 85 Jupiters) worth of hydrogen to get the job done. A lot of the moons would be within that new super gas giant’s roche limit even before fusion began.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 months ago
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah … we did accidentally nuke that planet. Our bad.