Does anyone know if the Lucifer Project is real?

Question

It doesn't seem like NASA would do that, knowing the damage it would cause. And it is supposively going to happen within the next two months. Scary...

Answer 1

it's a bogus conspiracy theory, people get bored and start getting creative- don't worry.  besides, if the gov is so concerned with global warming, why would they make another sun just to "see" if they can sustain an action.  it's fake...

Answer 2

This sort of concept has been kicking around in sci-fi for a long time.  Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey (about 1968?) had a followup called 2010 which tried to answer some of the mysteries of the first film.   (SPOILER WARNING): The elegant black minimalist sculptures (alien beings void of cuteness) were indeed intelligent beings communicating to Earth that "something wonderful is going to happen."  Countless numbers of these intelligences converged on a major planet of our solar system, did their thing with fusion intention or whatever, and created a second sun for Earth just in time to stop the international idiot Earth governments from blowing themselves up in a nuclear war.  Everyone made nice, stopped war,  and the cycle of conscious evolution was begun on another planetary body somewhere by those minimalist rectangular sculpture-beings.  Sci-fi visionaries may or may not have grains of truth or prescience in their imaginations.   However, sometimes power brokers behind wealthy governments have been known to do weird science projects and experiments on the intentionally uninformed:   Just do your research and find out what these have been.  Check your sources and keep checking; balance science with keenly honed critical thinking and intuition.

Answer 3

I had to look it up to.  From what I see the idea is to put a nuclear bomb on saturn to start a sustained fusion reaction?

Not a chance in h**l.  Nuclear bombs are nothing compared to the heat and energy in an asteroid impact, and those don't set saturn off.  It seems like people read that saturn is mostly hydrogen so they think it's like some big bomb floating around out there that you just have to light.  It's not that simple...

Answer 4

Okay I have never heard of this, so I HAD to look it up. Terriforming Titan doesn't seem possible in our realm of scientific knowledge today. I wouldn't think that they would even attempt it considering how little we know about Titan now. That would be ruining the second most interesting body surrounding our sun. It's definitely not real. I couldn't find any article surrounding the project. And this would definitely be something you could find something with a credible source backing it up on the net.

Okay, so just a little more.... Apparently, the idea for this project came from the Cassini–Huygens satalite which is currently orbiting saturn and its moons. There was a big debate on whether the satilite was safe to launch into the atmosphere because it's energy source is plutonium-238 which is ionic and radioactive (gamma i believe). The reason why they used this as an energy source is because they could not get enough energy from the sun to power the satilite for the long mission. You should check out Cassini–Huygens if you want to know more about the satilite. My guess on what started this conspiracy is...

N.A.S.A. had debates on where they were going to dispse of Cassini–Huygens when they were done with it. I am not sure if they have a definite answer to that question yet, so conspirasy theorists just suppose that "N.A.S.A. is going to land it on Saturn... blow the whole planet up because of a chemical reaction... kill most life on earth from the explosion... then move to the now habitable moon of Titan to reign supreme" Just add a few biblical quotes and a name like the "Lucifer Project" then you have some followers. haha!! N.A.S.A. decided it best to dispose of it on one of Saturn's moons other than Enceladus or Titan to make sure that there is no contamination. Again, they have no definite disposal site yet though.