I'm sure we're all aware of Jupiter's existence in our Solar System, if not then you've been living under a Dwayne Johnson for god knows how long but anyways, I've always wonder at the idea of being able to visit the gas giant planet, Jupiter. Now it hasn't been proven whether or not Jupiter has a surface and its safe to assume that it doesn't, it will take a good while to find out if it does or not. But exploring Jupiter doesn't necessarily mean that there should be a surface, instead what I had in my head was making it sort of work like Star Wars and Cloud City. I'm sure we won't get any new planets in any of the expansions but its wishful thinking.
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Okay, as I was looking into some info I heard on Jupiter having a hole in it in Destiny's lore for purposes to my story, I ran through some of this thread's comments and again I find it so amusing people don't question science at all. Now before I continue, I'm not saying Jupiter has a surface. But I am saying that people saying it doesn't jump to the conclusion too quickly. Have people not paid attention to the fact that the theory of plate tectonics and the layers to a planet are purely theoretical and not proven fact. Even Earth's proposed crust is extremely thick, and no one has been able to actually delve into the depths of the proposed layers underneath to determine whether or not they actually exist. Ha, they haven't even been able to explore the deepest parts of the crust. All of these people unquestionably jump to the defense of a claim that just cannot be proven irrefutably. There's no way to actually place an observer in such areas of a planet, so there's no definite explanation as to what the heart of planets are composed of. Same goes for planets like Jupiter. Just to play with the idea of it, for all we know, the gas planets' surfaces are concealed by extremely large, thick, powerful, and dangerous atmospheres primarily compounded by gaseous elements. All the observation tech out there studies it from outside the atmosphere, so who knows what's actually underneath. Anyway, not to drag this out unnecessarily, we simply don't know for sure. It's not like the astronomers and geologists have actually been to these planets and their depths themselves either. To say they undoubtedly know for sure what the planets are composed of is blatantly ridiculous. Again, I'm not saying there is a surface to the gas giants, but I'm proposing we don't dismiss the possibility so quickly. Open minds, people. Science isn't right about everything. The lines are constantly being blurred, shifted, and rewritten. On such an unfounded and rocky study, you have to take what they tell you with a grain of salt.