Post Av35I2ZGWktUIpxHyS by amiserabilist@beige.party
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 (DIR) Post #Av31xHBGhZsBgF8cLY by rupert@mastodon.nz
       2025-06-12T03:03:13Z
       
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       @rberger @amiserabilist @farah @Kierkegaanks Also, he'll be an immigrant, and we're not sending any paperwork with him, so he'll be undocumented.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av35I2ZGWktUIpxHyS by amiserabilist@beige.party
       2025-06-11T02:56:38Z
       
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       @farah @Kierkegaanks Earth is orbiting the sun at about 30 km/s, which is more than 65,000 mph. So to get a rocket to fall into the sun, we would need to launch it with enough energy to accelerate to 65,000 mph in the opposite direction of Earth's orbit. Anything short of that just puts the spacecraft in an elliptical orbit that never hits the star. New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever launched, left the Earth at only 36,000 mph.In fact, we only need to launch a spacecraft at 11 km/s, or less than 25,000 mph, in the same direction of our orbit to cause the spacecraft to escape our solar system. This means that it would take less energy to launch a spacecraft to another star than our own sun (though it would take years and years to get there).https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a21896/why-we-cant-just-launch-waste-into-the-sun/