Did NASA nuke Jupiter? I hope not because Jupiter is aligned with Mars. Regardless, I know that certain readers will find this interesting, infuriating or idiotic.

Update: First email in response:

Jonah, Just fyi, Hoagland is a well-known crank in space circles. He’s most famous for advocating an artifical origin for the “Face on Mars”, a knobby mountain on Mars that looks like somebody’s head. His credibility is zero and his technical knowledge is near that same level.

Update II: From a reader:

Not utterly sure why I’m even demeaning myself by piling in here, but setting all the rest of the idiocy aside, you can’t force a diffuse cloud of plutonium,uranium or even dilithium capsules, complete with fragments of graphite moderator to go critical. Just can’t happen.
The worst that NASA can be indicted with is littering.