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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well, I guess this applies to me. I say that a lot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If the idea is to be rid of the person completely, we don't need to fire them into the sun. Or launch them out of the solar system. They don't even need to reach earth escape velocity.

Just launch them at the sun. Use whatever method you like. Just get them high enough that after gravity starts to overpower acceleration, there is no chance for survival. Boom! No more person. For the most part.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Just launch lots of tiny bits of processed earth at them super fast. More propellant efficient and you don't have to worry that they might have packed a parachute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You'd still be moving some 30km/s around the sun, and need to decelerate from that speed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Does the velocity of the earth around the sun enter into it if the projectile doesn't come anywhere close to leaving earth's gravitational pull? When I said "at the sun" it was just a direction. A gesture towards the spirit of the original "into the sun." They won't reach it. They'll just be a splat mark [insert parabola math here]-ish meters away.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

New slogan: Launch all billionaires straight up into the air using one of those circus cannons

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vay Hek threatening to hurl the Lotus into deep space just doesn't have the same punch, though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Launch them into Betelgeuse instead. It's a bigger target anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If we're going for a bigger target, let's go all out and aim for Stephenson 2-18. Go big or go home!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how much to put them into a space suit and a car, strap them to a rocket and then fire them into orbit around Mars ?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Exceptions do apply, things like near-immortal beings or cursed objects may require the destructive power of a Sun and no less

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ummm… quick question: Isn’t that all just a matter of timing?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you're telling me shooting a space gun at the sun will miss?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can a solar sail be used to put a craft into the sun?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting question. A regular sail can sail into the wind, but they have a triangular sail, and a keel with water resistance. I don't think any of those things exist in space, so I'm going to guess no. Perhaps some sort of high efficiency propellant keel could make it possible?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My intuition would say no, but to be honest, I don't understand the physics of either solar or watercraft sails.

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