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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Billions of years and billions of times less energy, would you agree?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you're willing to settle for that kind of timeline, you could "launch someone into the sun" by just...leaving them on Earth for five billion years. At that point, the sun will become a red giant and probably expand to engulf the Earth.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What does engulfing the earth mean to you? The mass of the sun expanded to a body 1 au would not be very dense. My money says the earth would continue to orbit "inside the sun" for quite a while, but the orbit would degrade more quickly.

But yes, I argue get them out of the earths gravity well and let Newton handle the rest, no reason to propel them in any direction, eventually they'll get to the sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

No that's not really the case, the earth will be destroyed.

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