Did you guys read the article? They aren’t suggesting starting a fusion reaction.

Its the distance from the center to where you are measuring gravity. Gravity would increase on the surface of new Jupiter (since the radius is smaller). Not on earth.

There would be no gravity increase. Jupiter is (if memory serves) 8x to small to become a star. And making jupiter a star doesnt make it more massive, only on fire (actually plasma buwho cares(actually me)). Maybe a Hugly Successful Planet is a better name than Failed Star?

Isn’t that d the distance between objects centers of mass, not body diameter?

I disagree about the gravity increase. You haven’t increased the mass. All you have done is decrease the volume occupied by that mass. Given this and the fact that nothing is known to orbit Jupiter within the body of the planet, it is not reasonable to assume that any change in gravitational pull will occur at all,…

What increase in gravity? You’re feeding a black hole with te mass of Jupiter. Eventually, if itit doesn’t end up becoming unstable and ultimately exploding taking much of the solar system’s inner planets out in a blast of Har X-ray and gamma radiation, you ultimately end up with a tiny, rapidly spinning black hole of…

The rough idea is that there is so much mass falling in, compared to the size of the black hole, that it could not efficiently all fall in and would build up pressure and heat quickly.

Did you actually read the article? They aren’t talking about kicking off fusion but harnessing accretion energy from a miniature black hole. I think the bigger concern would be the radiation this thing would put out.

It would have been in the trailers. As Gunn said, the reveal of who his father is isn’t important. It’s their relationship that’s important.

You probably couldn’t have. It’s a central plot point of the movie, not a big reveal.

FWIW, they did officially announce it at Comic Con. Marvel isn’t trying to hide it in any way, because it means nothing to most people.

I can’t believe you put the spoiler in the title. I mean, what the fuck man, Star-Lord has a father? They’re making a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? Jesus man, I like to be surprised by literally everything!

In io9's defense, Gunn did say that Quill’s parentage isn’t the big twist of the movie, so this isn’t a particularly major spoiler (from the director’s perspective; obviously you’re free to disagree).

Not everyone did that and many might be thankful that they know now. Just because you immediately researched this doesn’t mean everybody else did, too. Also:

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I can't imagine how much your co-workers will hate you.

So, Game (of Thrones) called due to clement weather. First time for everything.

Donna was THE WORST. Her episodes are almost unwatchable.

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