Massive explosion as wide as an ocean spotted on Jupiter, the end is nigh, become a Christian before
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[QUOTE=shozamar;37661790]I wonder what it would look like to descend to the surface of Jupiter. According to wikipedia, there's a 50 km thick cloud layer followed by a transparent hydrogen layer which gets denser and denser until it becomes "liquid metallic hydrogen". I wonder what that would look like, assuming that sunlight was somehow able to penetrate the cloud layer.[/QUOTE]
It would look silvery and grey like most elemental metals
It's North Korea launching their missiles from the Jupiter colony.
[editline]14th September 2012[/editline]
Should get here in about 3 years.
Here's a [url=http://www.wimp.com/jupiterhit/]video[/url] of this in case anyone hasn't seen it yet.
The scary part is no one noticed it until it hit
[QUOTE=GlebGuy;37661477]Now that's a fucking Tank.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];37661992']I had an astronomy class last year, and my instructor said that (excluding air pressures and lack of oxygen and temperature) you could just start free-falling through the stormy atmosphere, and you'd be going down and down and down very very fast, but as you're going down, you're slowing down, because it's slowly getting denser and denser, until you're in a liquid, not a gas, and it's such a gradual transition you wouldn't realize it. But you're falling through this liquid, and sooner or later you'd just come to a smooth stop, floating in a very thick ooze of liquid hydrogen.
Basically, there is no surface under the cloud layer. It's just so gradual a change from the atmosphere to a denser liquid as you go more in, that you can't pin point a "surface" where it's one or the other.[/QUOTE]
Arthur C Clarke postulated that the constant chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere creating carbon which would slowly float down and be compressed at the core to form a diamond the size of the earth, It's been disproved, but imagine another gas giant somewhere where this may have happened.
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