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Yeah, but propelling them out of the solar system just sounds like the kind of fake-ending that ends up with the super villain coming back stronger in a decade. Have we learnt nothing from science fiction? You have to destroy your foes whilst you can.

It's definitely harder to decay the orbit into the sun directly than it is to get to escape velocity. But to play devil's advocate, there is probably a way to get them into the sun while being a similar cost to escape velocity. All you need to do is burn prograde to a super high aphelion, ride all the way out there to Pluto or whatever and then do a small retrograde burn to bring your perihelion inside the sun's photosphere. When you then get back towards the sun years later you would slam into it with a sick velocity that I think would be worth the decades-long wait.

Why is that - wouldn't you be working against solar gravity? Like you don't have to get them there quickly, just launch them in some orbit that will decay and be taken in?

Launching someone straight into the sun is very very expensive but doing a gravity assist around Jupiter or something to redirect your orbit into the sun is much cheaper.

I legitimately want to be cremated by the sun after I die. Doesn't matter how long it takes.

Huh. I would have thought that once they break orbit that the sun's gravity well would do the heavy lifting pulling.

Even with the explanations given here, it's still very counter-intuitive for me.

I think the best thing would be to cut the person in half, send one half towards the sun and the other half out of the solar system.

Instructions unclear. I'm going to the moon on Delta IX.

(Edit: my dumbass just realized it's ∆V, as in velocity. I thought Delta 5 was the name of a type of chemical propellant. Though now that I think of it, it really should be. Damn, and I work for a space company too. At least I'm just in IT).

Well, I guess this applies to me. I say that a lot.

Wouldn't shooting them into Jupiter be the easiest?

I'm sure I've read a few things about what an impact that big bugger has on trajectories in our solar system.

Intuitively I feel like a push towards Jupiter would be easier than a push to get all the way out of the solar system avoiding Jupiter.

If the idea is to be rid of the person completely, we don't need to fire them into the sun. Or launch them out of the solar system. They don't even need to reach earth escape velocity.

Just launch them at the sun. Use whatever method you like. Just get them high enough that after gravity starts to overpower acceleration, there is no chance for survival. Boom! No more person. For the most part.

how much to put them into a space suit and a car, strap them to a rocket and then fire them into orbit around Mars ?

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Launch them into Betelgeuse instead. It's a bigger target anyway.

Can a solar sail be used to put a craft into the sun?

Exceptions do apply, things like near-immortal beings or cursed objects may require the destructive power of a Sun and no less

Ummm… quick question: Isn’t that all just a matter of timing?

So you're telling me shooting a space gun at the sun will miss?

You could always put them in a co-orbit with earth or something and then just use solar sails to provide the delta-v

But I also like the idea of certain peeps having time to understand the error of their ways before slowly falling into the sun faster and faster.

And before some one says “well, there’s still plenty of time for that with a rocket…”

Naw. We’re talking about a truly idiotic person. It’s gonna take them a while,

I would be happy with just dropping them off a cliff, no need to fuck up the atmosphere any more for that.

Shit man. I am just nit convinced, even after reading many explanations.

Any suggestions on modeling software? It is important to me that the modeled sun have the real diameter, and is not a single point.