On 7/5/2016 8:27 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:

> And that got me thinking this morning about gas giants, magnetic
> fields, radiation, and debris.
>
>>From the descriptions of Jupiter's environment is, fuel skimming
> sounds a _lot_ more exciting than the rules imply it is.  That, or the
> comment someone made a while back about mishap on 7+ is a good rule.

Easy answer:  the LBBs were written before the Voyagers got a good close
look at Jupiter, and thus, before most people really knew /anything/
about it besides what Galileo et al had observed.  Not quite "Venus is a
swampy jungle", but close.

This leaves us with the same dilemma we've faced again and again:  do we
rewrite the rules to reflect what we've learned and done and invented
since 1980, or leave them as they are, covered in zeerust?

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