Can our current level of technology burn Jupiter?

Activating Jupiter seems like a possible plan in the sci-fi movie The Wandering Earth. Humans rely on ignition to create thrust to take the Earth to a deeper universe.

In fact, Jupiter is actually filled with hydrogen that can catch fire, with the current level of human technology, would it be capable of burning Jupiter?

It can be said that humans have the ability to bring igniters to Jupiter, but whether they can catch fire or not is another story. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, having 2.5 times the mass of all the planets combined. People have observed this planet since very early, the ancient Romans called Jupiter Jupiter.

Jupiter is the existence of the ruling gods and is the head of the twelve main gods, the name expressing the admiration of the ancient Romans for the god Jupiter.

The main component of Jupiter's atmosphere is hydrogen, and it can only ignite at temperatures above 500 degrees Celsius.

In fact, Jupiter is actually filled with hydrogen that can catch fire.

In order to burn Jupiter, one more condition is required, that is, people mix oxygen and hydrogen in a certain ratio. Otherwise, Jupiter would have been burned long ago in an explosion of energy from the impact of extraterrestrial bodies on Jupiter, and it would not be human's turn to discuss it.

In this mixture ratio, when hydrogen makes up 4% to 75%, as long as the ignition conditions are met, it can ignite. If you want to burn Jupiter, you need to supply a large amount of oxygen to Jupiter, Jupiter itself is huge, and supplying oxygen would be an astronomical project.

Given only a fraction of oxygen, a small Mars would burn up, so why does Jupiter "burn up" in "The Wandering Earth"?

Note that the claim that Jupiter burns in The Wandering Earth is incorrect. In the movie, Earth is attracted to Jupiter's gravity. Not only Earth, but the Earth's atmosphere is also sucked into the past, the audience can see in the film when the Earth has not been in contact with Jupiter, there is a long chain of gas and dust. This gas and dust is the product of the combination of Jupiter's hydrogen and Earth's atmosphere, and it has reached combustible conditions, in addition, a large part of Jupiter's gas has not yet merged. with oxygen, and they are not flammable.

So in The Wandering Earth, one can only burn the part associated with the Earth's atmosphere, the thrust generated by the energy ejected in this part is just enough to take the Earth to a farther place. without destroying the Earth.

If all of Jupiter were to burn up, the entire Earth would be torn to pieces by the powerful energy. You have to know that Jupiter with such massive mass will explode with energy after all of them are burned up. Although it is not equal to many cosmic events, it is not something that humans can tolerate.

Red dwarf star.

Another way to ignite Jupiter is to turn it into a star similar to the Sun, so that it creates nuclear fusion inside, and the Solar System from there has an additional Sun.

It sounds possible, after all, Jupiter's composition is similar to that of the Sun, and turning Jupiter into a sun requires only a little human help.

But in reality, Jupiter's mass is far from the norm, if you want to be a Sun-like star you need at least 0.08 Sun's mass. Jupiter has twice the mass of the other planets in the Solar System combined, but only one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.

If such a "lightweight" planet were forced to evolve into a star by humans, the result could be, and the inner star could not withstand nuclear fusion and cause the planet died.

Of course, there is also a more optimistic scenario, which is that Jupiter will become a red dwarf star, not as bright and hot as a star. This is not good for humans, the light and heat generated by the red dwarf cannot replace the Sun, its lifespan is shorter than the Sun, the Earth will also become hotter. At that time, the glaciers at the North and South poles will melt under high temperature conditions, and eventually people will suffer the consequences.

So instead of thinking how to burn Jupiter, why don't humans think about how to use Jupiter?

Comet is sucked into Jupiter.

Jupiter's position in the Solar System is moderate, with its rapid rotation and rotation, it isolates most extraterrestrial impact events to Earth.

In 1997, humans first observed a celestial collision event in the Solar System, a star called Comet Levi 9 suddenly changed direction in the outer region, directly into the Solar System.

As the eldest in the Solar System, Jupiter is the largest in size and has a very wide gravitational field, shortly after comet Levi 9 entered Jupiter's gravitational field and was absorbed by Jupiter. In the gravitational pull of Jupiter, Comet Levi 9 was torn to pieces, and the collision ended.

Comet.

According to astronomers' calculations, the energy generated from this collision is equivalent to the energy generated from the explosion of hundreds of millions of atomic bombs, this energy is enough to destroy the Earth, but it still bearable for Jupiter.

Without the existence of Jupiter, would comet Levi 9's final destination be Earth? We should thank Jupiter for its existence.

Jupiter is also known as "the scavenger" and "the garbage collector" in the Solar System, blocking most of the stars from outside the domain, and cleaning up some meteors that escape from around Saturn. It is because of the existence of Jupiter that the Earth has been able to stand until now, but the role of Jupiter is much more than that.

In astronomy, if you want to fly away from the Earth, you need to reach the first cosmological speed of 7.9km/s, and if you want to break free from the constraints of Earth's gravity, you need reaches a second cosmic speed of 11.2km/s.

If you want to fly out of the Solar System, you need to reach the third cosmic speed of 16.7km/s, and the speed of currently man-made spacecraft can reach the third cosmic speed . However, this speed consumes a lot of fuel, and the fuel carried by spacecraft cannot support humans to rush out of the Solar System.

Human curiosity is endless, to be able to explore extraterrestrial galaxies, the gravity of planets has played a very good role. The so-called "slingshot effect" is simply the use of the planet's gravity to propel a spacecraft. Driven by the planet's gravity, the spacecraft can explode faster and consume only a small amount of fuel. The planet itself is like a slingshot thruster, with a vivid image. neighbor" of Earth's "neighbor", Jupiter plays a huge role in human-launched space explorations.

Slingshot effect of planets.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched by the United States in 1977 using the slingshot principle, after decades, it successfully crossed the edge of the Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, and became the deepest man-made object in the field of exploration. dangerous so far.

During its plunge out of the Solar System, it successively used Earth's own rotation, Jupiter's gravitational repulsions, and Saturn's gravity, making it faster than Voyager 2, which launched later. it.

As humans explore the Solar System deeper, there will be more opportunities for humans to use Jupiter's gravity, and the use of Jupiter's gravity could become the norm in the future.

Juno spacecraft explores Jupiter.

To make better use of Jupiter, the pace of human exploration of Jupiter has never stopped. The Pioneer 10 spacecraft launched by the United States in 1972 became the first probe of Jupiter, and the Pioneer 10 spacecraft above Jupiter has returned valuable data to humans. In 1979, American Voyager 1 captured several images of its transit past Jupiter, and then continued its descent into space.

In 1995, the Galileo spacecraft reached the orbit of Jupiter and placed a probe on Jupiter. Galileo discovered many moons around Jupiter, expanding human perception. According to Galileo's observations, some of Jupiter's moons have saltwater oceans and volcanic eruptions.

Launched in 2011, Juno's mission is to study the evolution of Jupiter and its internal structure. It is believed that humans can completely unravel the mystery of Jupiter and turn it into a treasure for humans.