• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    5 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.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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      4 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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      5 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

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        5 days ago

        Thankfully there’s nothing particularly special about Elons DNA and so whatever they produce from it will be an especially sub-par human.

        Elon, like Trump, are cut from the same cloth: family wealth.