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Originally Posted by GeoffW1
The book and film, 2010 - Odyssey Two
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I'd considered that, but the probability of the particular gentleman being familiar with any form of Arthur C Clarke's story was extremely low. It probably came from an earlier 'factoid' of the evening that if Jupiter had been somewhat larger, it might have become a star.
It wasn't a stupid question - it was the context in which it was asked that made it stand out as a very strange one...