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Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core?
sciencehabit writes "Jupiter is the victim of its own success. Sophisticated new calculations indicate that our solar system's largest planet, which weighs more than twice as much as all of the others put together, has destroyed part of its central core. The culprit is the very hydrogen and helium that made Jupiter a gas giant, when the core's gravity attracted these elements as the planet formed. The finding suggests that the most massive extrasolar planets have no cores at all."
It's not just wars that we need to pay for; we also need to give giant no-strings-attached bailouts to mismanaged "too big to fail" financial companies so they can screw around with our economy with impunity, and not worry about any government regulators telling them how to do anything.
Also, don't forget the all-important War on Drugs that we need to pay for, so that we can send millions of non-violent people to privately-owned prisons and increase the profit margins of corporations like Wackenhut and CCA.