originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agoif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up176file-text
arrow-up176message-squareif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI assumed in this scenario that orbits would be left unchanged aside from orbital velocity - if we can magic Jupiter much bigger, we can magic the orbits too :P
minus-squareApollo42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI mean if we’re talking magic now, then all bets are off haha
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoNot sure how else you would increase Jupiter’s mass that much :P
minus-squareApollo42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoWe feed it everything else in the system except for the sun and hope it is appeased for another cycle :)
I assumed in this scenario that orbits would be left unchanged aside from orbital velocity - if we can magic Jupiter much bigger, we can magic the orbits too :P
I mean if we’re talking magic now, then all bets are off haha
Not sure how else you would increase Jupiter’s mass that much :P
We feed it everything else in the system except for the sun and hope it is appeased for another cycle :)