Summer On Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be turned into a second sun via advanced technology? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/WVB6ajJ4mzg Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Summer on Jupiter Episode 241, June 4, 2020 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Katie Byrne Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com Kristijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com Mihail Yordanov Sam McNamara of Rapid Thrash Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Tristan3D Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music: Markus Junnikkala, "Hail the Victorious Dead" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Aerium, "The Islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ Dan MacLeod, "Lucky" https://soundcloud.com/neptuneuk Markus Junnikkala, "The Men Would love a good fight" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Lombus, "Doppler Shores" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Paradox Interactive, "In Search of Life" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Ross Bugden, "Revelation" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:23.4	We've occasionally said that Jupiter, with its many moons, is practically a second solar system inside our own.
0:30.4	But what if we could actually make Jupiter a second sun?
0:33.2	I'm going to be able to In Odyssey Clark's classic novel 2010, the sequel to the legendary 2001 of Space Odyssey,
0:50.8	Jupiter is turned into a second sun by mysterious alien benefactors with the message
0:56.0	bearing a gift and a warning, all these words are yours except Europa, attempt no landing
1:02.0	there, use them together, use them in peace.
1:05.0	Since then, the notion that Jupiter might be turned into a sun has become a rather popular
1:10.0	bit of science fiction speculation.
1:12.9	Can it be done?
1:14.5	Would it turn the Jovian moons into better sites for colonies, and what benefits or problems
1:19.1	would it bring to Earth?
1:21.5	We should start with the obvious, while Jupiter is enormous, roughly matching the combined
1:26.0	mass of every planet, moon, and asteroid
1:28.7	in the solar system, including the Earth cloud.
1:31.7	Jupiter is still only a thousandth the mass of our Sun.
1:35.7	You may have heard that Jupiter would need to be 80 times more massive to be a star, but the
1:40.1	lowest mass star we found thus far that burns hydrogen, 2Mass J-023-1403, about
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