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Greg — (archived)

They may well be common in which case the appearence might be a coincidence which explains everything. You are missing the point of the pellets though. The point is whether they would explode and cause fusion since there is a lot of deuterium on Jupiter and this is at high pressure. If so it might cause a larger explosion. My question is if anyone here knows enough about the subject as to whether this is a possibility or not. There may well be a simple reason why not, for example the pellets may be too small to ignite or the deuterium may not be concentrated enough to fuse. It may be that the pressure is insufficient for fission or fusion. It may be it would melt and dissipate before the pressure was great enough. It might be that if there was fusion it might be trapped below and so we wouldn't see any evidence of it. It might be lots of things, I don't know. My question is if anyone knew, and nobody seems to.

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