Astronomers Want To “Terraform” Jupiter…

Is this a good idea?

The discussion of space travel also encompasses what we would do on another planet and the term terraforming has come up.  Basically that involves trying to manipulate a planetary environment so that life could flourish and make it more like earth.  So, how about Jupiter?

So just what would it take to terraform Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system?

In fact, it might even be easier than terraforming Mars or Venus, as long as you keep a steady flow of gas to the Moon replenishing the constantly escaping atmosphere.

Jupiter is a ball of hydrogen and helium, which compresses these gasses to almost starlike temperatures and pressures. Fine, Jupiter is the absolute worst. It makes traveling to Venus look like a spa visit.

Is this a good or bad idea?

Let’s check out more and watch a video on how this could be done on page 2

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39 Comments

  1. Elias M Villarreal said:

    Jupiter is used as a source of energy by the moons around it. Similar to the way we use the sun, since they are so far from the sun. Study the moons not the planet, it would be a waste of resources otherwise.

  2. Lawrence Olson said:

    Jupiter gives off lethal amounts of radiation, even being on the surface of the nearby large moons will give a fatal dose in 10-15 minutes. As far as terraforming, if the radiation problem can be solved; it might be possible to live in the upper atmosphere in floating cities.

  3. Mike Saul said:

    This shouldnt even be a question….All gas, lots of radiation. Stop giving us conversationalist pieces that are irrelevant. Give something worth debating. This one in my petsonal oppinion us pointless.

  4. Ds Mercer said:

    really?? play creator .. smh ..
    that’s an excellent argument against the idea, lol.
    how about stating a scientific reason, based in reality and fact, like: gravitational problems and being crushed, radiation, no known solid surface, and not one based on magic baby theory and 6 day creationism, smh, again…

  5. Yost Craig said:

    Um.. all “planets” are stars.. your sun created the “planets” technically there are no planets in this.. only other stars. This is why Jupiter is gaseous, it is growing into a sun, earth is growing too and one day will be as big and gaseous. Hell all that humans would need to do Is light the gas and create the sun now… though it would be no worse then what they do to meat on this star… force it to fully grow in two weeks… instead of its natural cycle.

  6. Elias M Villarreal said:

    Yost Craig why would you want to turn Jupiter into a sun? That would kill any life ( if any) living on its moons. It would affect the entire solar system. There are cycles to every thing for a reason.

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