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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So you have ~30km/s in a near circular orbit. You interact with a gravity well to point your vector at the Sun (a highly elliptical orbit). Sure you're carrying enough energy to come out of that with a very high aposol, but with the perisol within the Sun that energy will convert to heat

You don't need to kill all your earth orbit speed to hit Earth, just enough to aerobrake

You don't need to kill all your lunar orbital energy to hit the moon if you're happy to lithobrake

No one is talking about reaching the surface of the sun alive