What comes to mind when you hear the word giant?
Is it the Andromeda galaxy, the Niagara falls or Mount Everest, whatever it is you're thinking
we're going to talk about one of the solar systems' largest planets.
As we all know, our solar system has four enormous.
Planets the largest of which is Jupiter.
Do you have any idea how large this planet is?
Well, the planet's mercury Venus, Mars, and earth make up only 0.4% of the mass of the
entire Solar System while Jupiter alone takes up 71%.
This implies that Jupiter is several times the mass of any celestial object in our solar
system.
But this is not the aspect that we're going to discuss today.
It's the fact that ju is a readily available Thermonuclear device floating in space with
immense.
Rather than just a regular lump of stone.
This means this planet has the possibility of being blown to pieces.
Since Jupiter is a gas giant, it is most likely made up of hydrogen and helium.
Exactly like our sun, which burns because of constant thermonuclear processes.
What would happen if Jupiter experienced a similar reaction?
What would happen if we lit an ordinary match to the flammable gases and particles in Jupiter's
atmosphere, would the planet be destroyed by cosmic fires?
Is there going to be an explosion in today's video?
We'll delve deeper into this as well as if mankind can survive such an explosion.
Are you ready?
Let's get this started about 250,000 meteors burn up per second in Jupiter's atmosphere,
which is comparable to matches.
The celestial matches are drawn to the planet from space and burn up in its atmosphere,
but they do not ignite.
Why is this?
It needs oxygen to start a fire.
This means that no matter how many meteors burn up in the atmosphere, fire cannot burn
on this gas giant because there is no free oxygen, dry lining a candle and covering it
securely with a glass flask for a moment to better appreciate the role of oxygen in the
ignition.
As you'll notice.
The fire will go out in a few seconds because all of the oxygen in the FLA has already burned
up.
Although 90% of Jupiter is made up of hydrogen.
It is only explosive when combined with oxygen, it's clear that an ordinary match will not
ignite a thermonuclear reaction on Jupiter.
Yes.
Fires were used to seeing on.
Couldn't happen either on Jupiter.
If Jupiter could be set on fire that easily small meteors, would've set it on fire a long
time ago, however matches in igniting a fire.
Aren't the only highly advanced human innovation.
We could use something more powerful to initiate a thermonuclear reaction.
What if we used an actual nuclear.
Actually, we don't need to blow up Jupiter right now via a nuclear weapon to figure out
what would happen in such a scenario for almost 30 years, Jupiter has been subjected to such
horrible disasters.
Even the most powerful nuclear weapon would be incapable of replicating the disasters
that have occurred on the planet.
Astronomers recorded the first ever collision of a massive cosmic body with a planet in
the solar system in 1990.
This is when the comet Shoemaker levy nine collided with Jupiter.
This is a catastrophe that occurred on Jupiter from the 16th to the 22nd of July.
This incident created major surface disturbances on the planet.
As a result, the Southern hemisphere of Jupiter was covered in collision traces in less than
a week.
The worst effect of the collision on the planet came on early July 18th when the largest portion
of the comment with a diameter of 7,500 miles collided with a dark patch of Jupiter, that
component is approx.
450 miles smaller than the Earth's diameter.
Jupiter.
However, was unscathed in this particular incident.
Astronomers have detected explosions of up to 6 million megatons, which is 750 times
more powerful than all of humanity's nuclear weapons combined.
However, the disaster's traces vanished from the massive planet's surface within a week
or more likely the planet has healed within a.
This isn't the only instance of cosmic bodies hitting Jupiter's surface.
Another occurrence similar to this occurred in 2009, when another object, a comment smashed
with the planet, even though the collision left a dark patch on Jupiter's surface the
size of the Pacific ocean, it wasn't enough to initiate a chain nuclear reaction.
This means that even if we sent all of the nuclear bomb to Jupiter and detonated them,
Serious would happen.
Jupiter would be able to heal at its earliest convenience.
There is one theory saying that it's the people that have the ability to destroy gas giants,
namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, with their own hands.
You could initiate a chain thermonuclear reaction.
If you launched a nuclear explosion deep within the interior of the gas.
Rather than on their surfaces.
This is due to metallic hydrogen, which is held in the inners of large planets under
enormous pressure.
If you are wondering what the future's environmentally friendly fuel will be, look no further than
hydrogen planet.
The transition of solid hydrogen to the typical molecular phase releases, approximately 20
times more energy than when it is burned.
It has the capacity to provide energy to an entire house for several years, using a relatively
small quantity of metallic hydrogen fuel block, a world in which terminators can survive for
hundreds of years on their own might become a reality.
Although the presence of metallic hydrogen.
Been hypothesized as early as the 1930s, scientists at Harvard university are only able to get
it in a relatively small amount in 2016, their achievement, however, was met with skepticism
by the scientific community.
Only lately have French physicists.
To verifying that solid hydrogen exists and can be manufactured on earth, but in order
to do so, a pressure of 4 million Earth's atmospheres must be created.
Let's return to the topic of what would happen.
If Jupiter exploded, humanity was anticipated to perish.
If the blast.
Occur NASA opted to send the Galileo space probe into the planet's atmosphere.
On September 21st, 2003, there were 26 pounds of radioactive plutonium, 2 38 onboard the
spacecraft.
Yet it only takes 22 pounds of radioactive material for the ignition to occur.
Unconfirmed accounts claim.
This brought an explosion inside Jupiter.
Leaving a big black spot on its surface.
This was also what American writer Richard Holland believed in.
However, NASA believes the black spot was caused by the satellite shadow, slipping into
the telescopes frame, and that no proof of an explosion exists.
Furthermore Holland supports different conspiracy theories and frequently produces controversial
writings.
However, we cannot eliminate the possibility of Jupiter being blown.
To do so.
However you need to drop a nuclear bomb, the size of the moon into its interior, theoretically,
such an explosion can result in a self-sustaining thermonuclear fusion reaction.
The gas giant would be blown to bits and the entire solar system would be destroyed on
a massive scale.
The explosion of Jupiter would be similar to that of a supernova.
Although on a lesser scale, there would be a massive emission of thermal energy and radiation
into.
Furthermore solar wind currents would be interrupted, causing most planets to shift their orbits
permanently.
Worst of all, the earth that we live on would absolutely vanish.
This is because the explosion will likely destroy the ozone layer.
Along with the rest of the atmosphere, humans would inevitably die as a result of cosmic
radiation.
The effect of the explosion would be visible to the human eye for a long time in the.
However, since humanity will come to an end, no one will be able to witness that.
Despite all of this, most of us are still interested in one issue.
If Jupiter had so much hydrogen, why didn't it become a star rather than a planet?
This is due to the gas giants, mass being too small to undergo such a change.
The hydrogen in stars is in a plasma.
Which means it has been heated to extremely high temperatures by processes in their cores.
This implies that for Jupiter to be a star, it has to be 80 times larger.
And the temperature within the planet has to be 18 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Jupiter will only be visible as another bright star in the sky.
If it happens to achieve these characteristic.
One thing is certain though, whatever methods we try to do now, we will never be able to
explode Jupiter in our lifetime as a result.
This is one reason why you should not be terrified of human's demise, and don't be afraid to
explore space.
It's preferable to wait until it's dark.
Grab a small telescope and gaze at the solar system's largest planet with your own.
I tell you the view will be absolutely spectacular if you enjoyed this video and don't forget
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