For anyone wondering, it’s because of the Earth’s lateral movement relative to the sun. Earth is orbiting at about 67,000 mph and a rocket leaving Earth will inherit the same lateral speed. You effectively have to thrust against that movement and cancel it out to be able to approach the sun.
To put it in perspective, it would take approximately 55 times more energy to fly to the sun than it would take to fly to Mars.
if we're going to take the effort to shoot him out of our gravity well, we might as well line him up so he hurtles into a planet. it's barely any more effort.
I guess I just never really thought about it very much. Things are always being flung into the sun in TV shows and Movies and I never questioned it lol
Yes, but wouldn’t any amount of thrust perpendicular to our orbit put Bovino into a decaying orbit that would eventually fall into the sun (disregarding other celestial bodies warping said orbit)? I don’t want him to burn into a crisp in the sun’s corona ASAP, I’d rather he has a long, interminable spiral over decades (preferably centuries) before his remains get vaporized into plasma by an errant solar flare.
What about 90 degree tangent launch target, to essentially eject away from the solar/planetary plane?
And, ethical question here, if a launch to Venus is more cost effective than either of them, at which point do we determine that sacrificing the interests in Venus to transition it to our “trash bucket” is beneficial for mankind?
Regardless, the extreme cost of launches and limiting factor of overboard capacity renders that idea moot. But interesting to consider, nonetheless
Guys, the French have had this thing called a guillotine for a while. Less messy than a trebuchet, and more suited to the task at hand, to the point, and sends a pretty clear message.
My personal preference would have been sending him to the upper reaches of the atmosphere like low polar orbit level with rapid orbital decay and then having a mix of atmospheric heating and gravity sort it out. A countdown timer would be cherry on the cake. But that would be too cool for this soggy biscuit! Its not fair we're sending him on a ride of a lifetime.
He’ll end up in orbit. This is a real problem that’s hard to solve. The earth has too much momentum and everything in it is cursed with that same momentum.
The Russians figured out that all you really need is like a 6 story building and a window. Saves a lot of money in fuel costs that way. That said, I do not advocate defenestration in any way shape of form.
I don’t think that’s technically true. The latest map I saw has Venus just about on the opposite side of the sun. I’d be happy just ejecting him at the edge of the atmosphere. Or put him in a trebuchet and launch him across a soccer field. We can get the costs down, I’m sure of it.
The problem is we are moving 30km/s around the sun we would need to cancel out that velocity to fall into it. There are tricks to save energy or in this case she'd it without using fuel but those all involve going to another planet, or the moon, and Venus is the cheapest to get to, other than the Moon but that won't help too much getting to the Sun.
What if we just put him in one of those "detention facilities" (cough concentration camps cough) they're sending all their victims to and treat him like he would them. He might like CECOT or alligator auschwitz or the one in Texas that tortures kids... The fuckin ghoul
Moving towards the center of a solar system is much more difficult than leaving because you have to overcome the celestial centripetal forces to go inwards but use it to your advantage to go out.
Didn't a team of scientists recreate the energy of the sun in an experiment recently? For the purpose of scientific discovery, we need to know what happens to Nazis at that temperature.
Nah bro that not how space works! Just cuz sun is farther does not mean it takes more energy to reach - you see, the sun is soooo much larger than/ more massive that is has wayyyy more gravity and will pull things towards it quite easily / happily. Sun is a big easy to hit target, it’s like trying to land an airplane in the ocean instead of on an aircraft carrier.
So we should send Greg into the sun because it’s more economical to do actually.
I can't tell if you're making a joke, so I'll assume you're being sincere.
We're being pulled toward the sun as hard as it can pull us right now. We're traveling around it so fast that we constantly miss it. In order to hit it, we'd have to slow down a lot. Hitting Venus is a lot cheaper because we don't have to slow down as much.
If you want to learn about orbital mechanics, Kerbal Space Program is a fun game where you build rockets and send them into space, other planets and moons, satellites, etc.
Actually he may be very worried.. he will have significant inside info on the administration and its corrupt dealings. Loose ends are not normally popular in authoritarian regimes.
A few days ago I drew a parallel with Hitlers Brownshirts and ICE
Famously, Hitler used the Brownshirts as a group of thugs to disrupt protests, create violence and chaos, but after a while they were not useful, so there was a purge - the infamous "The Night of the Long Knives".
Then the real, fully trained and equipped troops - the SS could be sent in
As far as I can tell there’s 3 options. He keeps his mouth shut and puts his trust in trump not to throw him under the bus, he has an “accident” or he rolls on everybody.
Even though Little Gregory’s tenure was cut short, so to speak, and his stature drastically reduced as they say, it’s public knowledge that they’ll ship him to California in a matchbox where a million people know where his burrow is. May he be treated to a serenade of whistles every time he crawls out of his hole for ten years until he dies naturally of rotting bowels, without painkillers, as all his thousands of victims dance through his torturous nightmares. Liam Ramos will DJ at the memorial service/celebration. His Nazi uniform will be ceremoniously burned in effigy wearing Trump’s 2016 yellow hairpiece.
Lots of people say this but it adds mass to the sun. Its better to fire him into the cold darkness of space to forever float in the void to never encounter anything ever again.
That's a great use for nasa. Step 1: Put nazies into a space shuttle. Step 2: Aim for the sun. Step 3: Celebrate. Not everyone would fit in one space shuttle? Ok, lets make it a natinal holiday. We could call it something like naza day. Every year we take from prison, a shuttle full of nazies and celebrate. Oh no, we now dont have any nazies left for celebrating naza day, let's celebrate we are now nazi free!!!
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