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?..

  • teft@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    That’s a fucload of delta-v. just shoot them out of the solar system. It’d be cheaper.

    • Delta_V@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      If you’re really hell-bent on burning them up, I suppose you could aim them at some other star.

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          1 day ago

          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.

          • moody@lemmings.world
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            1 day ago

            Eh, just burn them in the volcano. The requirements are easier, and the Earth will eventually get burned up by the Sun anyway.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      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?

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          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 😈