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Subject: Re: Terraforming?  Astroforming! - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Jan  7 18:30:00 1984

The idea of igniting a self-sustaining fusion process in the Jovian
core (thereby turning our solar system into a binary-star system)
is interesting--but would not make the Jovian planets more habitable.
There is already too much radiation coming from Jupiter to make
surface life on the larger (inner) planets of that system a working
proposition.
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)