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On Tue, 7/5/16, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Juno and Gas Giant Skimming
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 11:38 AM

 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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Hasn't that already been done, like five times?   ;-p