Posted: Aug 17, 2017 12:34 pm
lucek wrote:Out of curiosity Dave did you did you do the feasibility calculations. Determine the relativistic mass and it's energy equivalent of such a feat, calculate the amount of hydrogen required to produce that amount of energy, calculate the amount available on a flight path and thus come to the conclusion that it was impossible or did you just think it was stupid and stop thinking. Because your insults aside I did the former and found it impractical even with real world tech (or tech 50 years down the line) but possible. and that may not seem important to you nor perhaps the question of lethal doses of neutrinos or any of a million other ideas from scify but all they are there is to get people thinking.
Dave I really dislike you. Not because of your snipes or your demeanor but because you can't take 2 seconds and look at something for the honest question it is.
None of the above is necessary (most of it irrelevant) to the title subject. For the answer to the actual question, "Could Jupiter Kill the Sun", I think astronomers have already worked out that the sun would just "burp" as someone here put it, because even two super-earths would still be very small compared to the sun, as there is a limit to how large a planet can be and still be earth-like. Also,because there is no object bigger than an atomic nucleus travelling at close to the speed of light in the galaxy.
I appreciate that you like to imagine the improbable (and impossible), but please don't take them too seriously.