Jupiter could have easily become a star, and Earth would have been doomed

[DrQ]

Jupiter could have easily become a star, and Earth would have been doomed

The massive gas giant Jupiter could have potentially become a star in the earliest days of the solar system. If Jupiter had become a star, the odds of Earth hosting life (or existing at all) are slim. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories. Jupiter is the mighty king of our solar system. It’s by...

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[Passepartout]

We'd have never known. Or even been.

 

[bbodb1]

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

How something be doomed if it never would have existed?

And if it did exist, it simply would have had some alternate existence. In which case, a story could equally be written about how that earth would have been doomed if Jupiter hadn't become a star.