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?..
So the “straight” part is impossible, but otherwise you certainly can. All that matters is “enemies into the Sun”.
You could fire somebody straight at the sun but you’d need to launch them so fast they would be instantly vaporized.
That would work and also be much faster.
Would be fine with towards the sun.
Alright fine. How about near the sun
Best I can do is a crash landing on Venus.
Acceptable.
Or just give me a few thousand and I’ll make them disappear forever.
Way cheaper and I guarantee it will work.
Not with that attitude!
Idk why it’s such a big deal for people to hit the sun in these hypothetical situations. Pretty sure the light radiating from the sun drops off exponentially as a function of distance, so anything getting even remotely “close” (i.e. thousands of kilometers) will still burn to a crisp
Correct. But even here at our orbit, the sun is still hot, damn hot. The sunny side of the moon peaks at 250F since there’s no atmosphere to dampen the effect. Medium earth orbit is probably enough to get them roasted
We could if we could fire them on some rocket that can reach 30km/s speeds, they would just drift straight into the sun, over time
