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Re:Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019) by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:45PM (#26572028)
Scale isn't the right thing to complain about here. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf :

> most brown dwarfs are slightly smaller than Jupiter (15–20%)

> Brown dwarfs are all roughly the same radius as Jupiter.

The suggestion that Jupiter is "orders of magnitude too small" to be a brown dwarf is obviously wrong in terms of size, but it's also wrong in terms of mass:

> at the low end of the range (10 [Jupiter masses]), their volume is governed primarily by Coulomb pressure

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