• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    People say this all the time and it’s nonsense. The amount of delta V required is too large. Just launch them far enough to leave earth’s orbit and after that who cares? Russell’s Teapot becomes Russell’s Billionaire and everything goes back to normal.

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      7 days ago

      Exactly. You’d need 28.9km/s of Delta V to get something from the earth to the sun, because your starting velocity is the 107000km/h of the earth and you have to slow down that much.
      Instead it takes only 2.9km/s to send Musk to mars and make him fullfil his promise of humans on mars by 2024 (well, he won’t arrive this year as the trip takes 8 months, but we could forgive him that)

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      8 days ago

      If you take the rocket and let it sink into the ocean, you don’t even need fuel.

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        7 days ago

        Yea just put all of them on a submarine. It’s a method that has already been proven to work, along with guillotines!

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      8 days ago

      I don’t want aliens finding his dna in billions of years and reviving him. Probably the meanest thing we could do to another species is giving them fifth element version of elon