It’s a thought that may have crossed your mind at some point: what would be the practicalities of firing your enemies into the Sun?..
It’s a thought that may have crossed your mind at some point: what would be the practicalities of firing your enemies into the Sun?..
Just fire them at earth-orbit speed in the opposite direction and they’ll fall into the sun.
Opposite direction? The earth is traveling at 67,000 mph. Opposite direction will require canceling out that energy first.
Yes, that’s exactly what we’re trying to achieve. Once you cancel that out, the object will fall straight towards the sun.
That’s a fucload of delta-v. just shoot them out of the solar system. It’d be cheaper.
If you’re really hell-bent on burning them up, I suppose you could aim them at some other star.
Or chuck them into an active volcano.
I mean, the idea was to try to fulfill both the “fire them into the Sun” and “minimize ∆V” requirements at the same time, but sure, that’s an option too.
Eh, just burn them in the volcano. The requirements are easier, and the Earth will eventually get burned up by the Sun anyway.
If you don’t mind waiting a few thousand years, you can cut the delta-v requirements in half by traveling to the edge of the solar system first and then burning retrograde at aphelion.
Or do like the Parker Solar Probe did and catch multiple gravity assists off Venus.
Ah yes, the Oberth Kuiper Maneuver: https://xkcd.com/1244
Nah, just aim them for the sun and hope for the best.
They’ll be dead due to lack of oxygen within a few days anyways, does it matter if their stinky corpses get burned up in the sun or not?
Why bother to send them in a sealed vessel.
Why, the pretense of hope of course!
Then livestream their evil little faces as they realise they’re about to run out of oxygen and there’s nothing they can do about it 😈
Well we’ve got to get them in the sun somehow
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