Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!221.162.fido!Geoffrey_Welsh
From: 221.162.fido!Geoffrey_Welsh@watmath.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: 2010
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Date: 3 Mar 88 14:28:03 GMT
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 > From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube)
 > Message-ID: <8802261606.aa19896@note.nsf.gov>
 > Date: 26 Feb 88 21:05:57 GMT
 > Isn't it inevitable that somewhere along the way Jupiter will
 > undergo stellar ignition ?
 
   I think not. Not nearly enough mass.
 
 > I read somewhere that Jupiter could have been a star, if only the
 > same quantity of matter were more compact, creating higher
 > internal pressures.
 
   But the mass would be more compact (have higher internal pressures) 
only if there were much more mass surrounding it.
 
   It's also been said that, if Jupiter's inner atmosphere wascomposed 
of carbon, there'd be a diamond the size of the Earth down there.
 
   RE: inventing an ignition method for Jupiter & some "wise guy" setting 
it loose: look at the atom bomb & carry the analogy. Derive your own
conclusions.
 
 > More philosophically, isn't any process that increases entropy
 > bound to occur, no matter how great the scale, so long as people
 > can evade the XEPA (Xeno-Environmental Protection Agency)
 
   Stellar ignition decreases entropy (more mass in less volume because 
the atoms become more complex), so it must be decidedly exothermic to
perpetuate. It would still require input of a huge amount of energy.
 
   Geoff ( watmath!fido!221.171!izot )

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