Standing On The Surface Of A Gas Giant

[El_Machinae]

I don't understand why you'd stop falling. If there is gravity You'd go to the center untill you hit solid right?

For the same reason I float about a foot underneath the surface of the water when I stop moving.

Roughly, the atmosphere of a gas giant is a gas on the outside, eventually (due to pressure) it becomes basically a liquid and then becomes dense enough that we'd think of it as a solid.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Let's assume I build a miracle-craft that can withstand a hideous amount of pressure. If it's sufficiently heavy, it will sink to the bottom and be able to "walk" on the solid core of Jupiter.

Now, is there any kind of telemetry that can go through several 100k miles of liquid hydrogen?

 

[Masquerouge]

Let's assume I build a miracle-craft that can withstand a hideous amount of pressure. If it's sufficiently heavy, it will sink to the bottom and be able to "walk" on the solid core of Jupiter.

Now, is there any kind of telemetry that can go through several 100k miles of liquid hydrogen?

I suggest you read "The Algebraist", by Ian M. Banks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algebraist

A lot of things happen in gas giants in that novel