I keep hearing that. Again - I don’t work on space physics, so forgive my ignorance on why. However- I’m good with billionaires taking as long as needed to get to our sun, some other maybe hospitable planet, or just dying in the cold of interstellar space while we observe a new holiday of them all fuckin’ off from terra firma.
Earth is traveling 29.8km/s around the sun. In order to go to the sun, you have to slow down. But to escape the sun from earth, you need to accelerate to 42km/s or just 12km/s relative.
Are you trying to get us fucking killed??? Those types of speeds are capable of reversing the Earth’s rotation, and turning back time! But even more likely is that the Earth will stop rotating and we’ll all get crushed because of gravity vs centrifugal force, and the world will stop being flat and then we’ll all fall off!
I keep hearing that. Again - I don’t work on space physics, so forgive my ignorance on why. However- I’m good with billionaires taking as long as needed to get to our sun, some other maybe hospitable planet, or just dying in the cold of interstellar space while we observe a new holiday of them all fuckin’ off from terra firma.
guillotines need less energy than a light bulb.
technically, it uses a lot of energy (depending on how much the blade weighs). it is not electrical energy, but gravitational potential energy
Great way to get some exercise in.
Earth is traveling 29.8km/s around the sun. In order to go to the sun, you have to slow down. But to escape the sun from earth, you need to accelerate to 42km/s or just 12km/s relative.
And if the launch is towards the “back” of Earth’s orbit? 29.8 km/s - escape velocity…
I’m a certified internet space-e-ologist and can confirm that it’s all conjecture cuz we’ve never tried.
So for scientific purposes we should send a capsule in both directions.
Actually we did!
I was referring to chucking billionaires into the sun.
I’m sure the physics are wildly different so we need to test it, is my point.
Are you trying to get us fucking killed??? Those types of speeds are capable of reversing the Earth’s rotation, and turning back time! But even more likely is that the Earth will stop rotating and we’ll all get crushed because of gravity vs centrifugal force, and the world will stop being flat and then we’ll all fall off!