There are 14 year olds who've played Kerbal Space Program half their conscious lives who can explain in detail how hard it is to throw things into the sun and why. Because we've all tried it.
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Me: *looks at 7yo son Son: "What?" M: "Is Jeb still in your KSP roster?" S: "No?" M: *shakes head
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Wait...okay, I need to keep working on my grasp of this. Ship in solar orbit, 1 AU out. Burns retrograde. Orbit path drops towards Sol, right? Seems like 'decaying orbit'. But...that'd have to be a big, long burn to drop the trajectory *into* Sol.
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That would've been decayed by applying a copious amount of Delta v heh
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And why are we throwing garbage into the sun? Just burn it, that's useful thermal energy and air pollution is relatively easy to deal with. Or just compact it all and dump it into subduction trenches. Work *with* the planet and gravity, not against.
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We're throwing garbage into the sun to set up the inevitable miscalculation that slingshots a garbage scow back at earth. We need plot people. Good ideas don't create crises.
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You I mean
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please, god, let this thread keep going
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It’s Friday. It’s right up
@MorlockP valley and the other guy is trying to argue out of it...outlook is good
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