How would the ozone layer be destroyed by THE LUCIFER PROJECT, and how badly would this damage life on Earth?

Question

Any damage to the ozone layer could not be permanent, unless all oxygen in the atmosphere were simultaneously destroyed.

In our favour is the fact that Saturn is ten times farther away from the Sun as we are- that would be about 1,000 million miles. Therefore the blast of "ionized hydrogen," feared to result if Saturn could be detonated, will be greatly reduced.

This may not help us that much, if the blast can override the Solar wind and send these ions- which would be protons (somebody affirm or refute?) into our gravity well (the area in which Earth's gravity can pull them in and MAKE them enter our atmosphere,) besides those that will be swept up as Earth moves in its orbit.

It would be useful to factor in the positions of other planets, and to know whether they would be helpful in sweeping some of this fallout away from Earth. If Jupiter and Mars were between us and Saturn, it could be a life saver to us.

The way I figure it:

6H + 03 => 3H20

Answer 1

You need to show the intermediate steps.  Then it will make more sense.

Answer 2

whoops!... wait a sec...

yup... PMP!.....

ROFL!!!!

Answer 3

If anyone knew anything, why would they not give facts and figures?

The Bible says:

DEUTERONOMY 22:9-10.

9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds:

lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown,

and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

10. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an a$$ together.

FOR THOSE who are so slow, let me explain.

Those who have nothing to lose- they have Nuclear Fallout bunkers to flee to, think they can afford to laugh this off.

What happens when the terrorist groups get hold of this?

when they hear that The Great Satan has invented another h**l-weapon to exterminate them, so they can take over the Earth over their bleached bones?

Killing White people in general, and Americans in particular will become a spectator sport worldwide! Other nations may even join in! They  may not even wait until the planet is sucessfully detonated to start this.

The Elite, secure in  their underground bunker cities will sit tight as those trapped on the surface become cannon-fodder against suicide-ARMIES out to get as many as they can before they succumb.

Does this scenario still look humourous to you?

Answer 4

I'm not sure how much I buy into the feasibility of turning a planet into a star with a man made bomb, and to be honest I'm not too terribly familiar with all the concepts involved (but by the same token I'm not ignorant on all of them as well).  Anyhoo...

I'm guessing you'd have most of your problems with basically making a planet into a nuclear bomb (which from what I gather from googling around is essentially what the kick off of this "project" would be) not from how the radiation reacts with the atmosphere, but how it reacts with living things.  That's what makes normal radioactive materials in general so craptastic.

Sorry I can't help with the chemical reactions, for the atmosphere.  I have no idea how they'd pan out, but I do know that randomly "figuring" things isn't how chemistry works.

At any rate, although far fetched I thought reading up on this "Lucifer Project" was pretty entertaining.  Thx for the question.

EDIT: Jason T seems to know a good bit more about all of this than I do and from what I DO know, he is not the average moron on Y!A so I would vote for him as best answer.

At any rate, I similarly wouldn't just outright discount the overall possibility of this crazy "project" you're talking about on the grounds of how fusion nuclear bombs work.  We're dealing with a different situation with something like a planet that is "almost" a star on trying to hit critical mass for a sustained nuclear reaction within it as opposed to c**p hanging out at our atmospheric pressures.  At the same time, I'm not sure how "almost" we're talking here.

Anyhoo, Jason T for best answer!

Answer 5

This stuff completely free of science.

Answer 6

You cannot use a multi-ton spacecraft with less than a ton of non-fissile plutonium on board to detonate a multi-trillion ton planet. Neither Jupiter nor Saturn are massive enough to sustain nucclear fusion (if they were they'd already be doing it), you cannot initiate fusion with a single explosion (hydrogen bombs use explosives in a pattern to *compress* hydrogen to trigger fusion) and there is nothing in their atmosphere to sustain combustion of the hydrogen. Conclusion: you cannot destroy a planet with a space probe. This is nothing more than the anti-nuclear rubbish spouted by those who don't even try to understand but assume that anything 'nuclear' is automatically an apocalyptic weapon.

>>When the comet discovered by the cobbler and trousers tailor hit Jupiter in 1994 NASA is supposed to have said that it hit with an impact of "200 megatons." Since Jupiter did not detonate, people are saying that dropping a few nukes on Saturn would not be so serious.

Does it occur to anyone that they are gambling the lives of thousands of millions of people on NASA's word?<<

No, we are gambling nothing on an understanding of reality.

>>The people accused of faking the Moon shots?<<

Accusations are irrelevant without proof. There is NONE that the Moon shots were faked, and a VAST amount of evidence to the contrary.

>>When supposed scientists<<

I am not a supposed scientist, I AM a scientist thank you.

>>say that Saturn does not have enough mass to be ignited, does that mean

By itself of its own weight?

By non-nuclear comets and meteors, which cannot reach such temperatures required?

By plutonium warheads, or classified specifications?<<

Saturn cannot be induced to nuclear fusion because a single explosion does not produce the right conditions and it has insufficient mass to sustain it. It cannot be ignited because that requires there to be something for the hydrogen to react with in combustion, which there isn't. If that isn't clear enough then this really is wasted on you, isn't it?

>>If the fuel cells are reinforced so that they can only collapse and detonate near the core, how can Saturn NOT ignite?<<

See above. There is nothing to burn with the hydrogen, and such an explosion simply cannot initiate a sustained fusion reaction. This is reality, but feel free to continue along in your fantasy world.