efficiency is important

Tweet by @physicsmatt from 2020: If you're mad and find yourself yelling that you want someone launched into the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself, and remember that it takes a lot less Delta v to launch them out of the Solar System instead. a follow up tweet reads: You can be mad, but that's no excuse to be inefficient with propellant.
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Tweet by @physicsmatt from 2020:

If you're mad and find yourself yelling that you want someone launched into the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself, and remember that it takes a lot less Delta v to launch them out of the Solar System instead.

a follow up tweet reads:
You can be mad, but that's no excuse to be inefficient with propellant.
No, I didn't go to twitter, I just remember this from six years ago and found it online.

along with a lovely explanation about the delta v to get something out of the solar system vs getting it to the sun, plus a lovely efficient way to get something in to the sun if you're willing to wait a few hundred years by sending it out to pluto first.


source: https://gierratio.com/blog...

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