The comments section exploded before Liam even finished speaking.
"HE'S ACTUALLY DOING THIS"
"This man is insane. Clinically insane."
"Jupiter's atmosphere will CRUSH that shuttle"
"No way that suit protects him from those pressures"
"I'm watching someone about to die live on stream"
"If he survives this, every space agency on Earth needs to just give up"
News anchors had abandoned all pretense of professional commentary. On BBC World, the host simply stared at the screen, her hand covering her mouth. CNN's coverage showed split screens—the livestream on one side, a physicist on the other trying to explain why this was impossible.
"The pressure at depth in Jupiter's atmosphere exceeds anything we can create in laboratories," the physicist said, his voice strained. "The temperatures rival industrial furnaces. And the turbulence—" He gestured helplessly at the screen. "That storm's wind shear would tear apart any spacecraft we've ever built."
