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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (11 children)

If it takes 13 years for sound how long would it take for us to reach the sun on a rocket

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Interesting question.

You'd have to cancel out the sideway movement of the earth, and it's going roughly 85000km an hour.

Once you cancel that out, you'll simply fall down to the sun. But you'd need a very powerful rocket. It's way easier to get to mars, as comparison.

It's more realistic to do gravity assists from venus and other bodies, and in that case it'd take years. Just a rough guesstimate would be 10 years I guess? But maybe you'd have to even sling past jupiter or something to really slow down, so then it might be decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow I didn't think it'd be that complicated haha, I imagined we'd just swirl towards it like going down thr toilet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I wish the earth did that

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