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Originally Posted by Ali Quadir
That dropping the spaceship into Saturn WOULD cause Saturn to ignite... Nasa decided to do it anyway because one of the moons. Titan I believe has potential to contain live. And they did not want to take any chances in contaminating that moon. Saturn clearly did not ignite, the spacecraft just vanished into Saturn. This all was in the past. There is very little to discuss really...
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WOW what a load of RUBBISH... Saturn 'clearly' did not ignite because Cassini has not yet crashed into it. The mission has been extended to 2010... Galileo crashed into Jupiter and created a huge black spot larger than Earth. They were planning to drop Galileo onto Europa... the water moon... but decided not to contaminate that pristine world and flew it into Jupiter instead...
You really ought to try to get your facts straight before you taunt us with that 'expert' Phil Plait