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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Launch them into Betelgeuse instead. It's a bigger target anyway.
If we're going for a bigger target, let's go all out and aim for Stephenson 2-18. Go big or go home!
Sagittarius A* would like a word, and you'll never get that word back.
I see your Sagittarius A* and raise you one TON 618.
Exceptions do apply, things like near-immortal beings or cursed objects may require the destructive power of a Sun and no less
Can a solar sail be used to put a craft into the sun?
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?
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Easily. You'd just have to use it to push your orbit in the right direction at the right time. If you are like Pluto, and way out there with a very eccentric orbit, unfurling the sail as you are heading into the galaxy might make your orbit path curve through the sun itself.
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So you're telling me shooting a space gun at the sun will miss?
No, just that you'll need to use a longer casing on your round.
Wouldn't shooting them into Jupiter be the easiest?
I'm sure I've read a few things about what an impact that big bugger has on trajectories in our solar system.
Intuitively I feel like a push towards Jupiter would be easier than a push to get all the way out of the solar system avoiding Jupiter.
You could always put them in a co-orbit with earth or something and then just use solar sails to provide the delta-v
But I also like the idea of certain peeps having time to understand the error of their ways before slowly falling into the sun faster and faster.
And before some one says “well, there’s still plenty of time for that with a rocket…”
Naw. We’re talking about a truly idiotic person. It’s gonna take them a while,