Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? 181
sciencehabit writes "Jupiter is the victim of its own success. Sophisticated new calculations indicate that our solar system's largest planet, which weighs more than twice as much as all of the others put together, has destroyed part of its central core. The culprit is the very hydrogen and helium that made Jupiter a gas giant, when the core's gravity attracted these elements as the planet formed. The finding suggests that the most massive extrasolar planets have no cores at all."
Yeah get rid of that old core (Score:3, Funny)
get at least a quad core... time for an upgrade haha :)
Monoliths (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Weight? (Score:5, Funny)
Next thing you'll tell me is that a pound of feathers weighs as much of a pound of bricks!
Re:Diamonds are Forever (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly DeBeers needs to hire you to lead their next ad campaign, "Diamonds are quite long-lasting relative to other materials, though they will eventually decay".
Re:Ho Hum (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:core is icey hot? (Score:2, Funny)
There is alot of pressure at the core of Jupiter.
That's nothing compared to being the core of Saturn. You scrub and scrub and scrub and nothing gets rid of those rings, and then Neptune comes home and wants his dinner and doesn't understand that you've been working hard all day. 'Get me a beer!' he hollers as he plops his ass down into the big comfy chair and starts watching Wheel of Fortune.
I tell 'ya, being the core of a planet ain't all wine and roses, I tell 'ya.
It's official (Score:5, Funny)
Jupiter is no longer hard core.
Elementary how to fix it (Score:5, Funny)
We'll send special ships to the center of the earth with large hydrogen bombs that will restart the rotation of the core itself.
This is all documented here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core [wikipedia.org]
Re:Weight? (Score:5, Funny)
> GO POUND SAND
The pound sand doesn't appear to have an entrance.
Re:Ho Hum (Score:5, Funny)
Mar's
Never has an apostrophe made me so sad.
Re:Ho Hum (Score:2, Funny)
NASA does basic science?
Your bar is set...ridiculously high.