Yes. It's surprisingly hard to get something to hit the sun.

What you have to do is slow down. Remember we are orbiting it.

I need you to understand that when I want someone launched into the sun, it's not because it is easy, but because it is hard. I want to go to the extra effort and delta v necessary so that we can make it abundantly clear that you, evil horrible cretin, are worth the collective effort of thousands to personally be launched into the sun.

Can someone explain why it's easier to yeet something out of the solar system, than to yeet something into a massive gravity well?

My dumbass thanks you in advance

If you accelerate to a very high orbit, you will have nearly zero velocity at the apoapsis. From there it takes only a very small delta v to reduce your velocity to zero and fall into the sun.

Source: This is how I killed Jebidiah Kerman.

1. Please don't pollute interstellar space with assholes. It's bad enough that we filled Earth with them.
2. If I wanted to be efficient, I'd drop them in an active volcano. If I want someone thrown into the Sun, I WANT SOMEONE THROWN INTO THE SUN.

I suppose we could sent them to a Lagrange point and call it good?

Send them to the bottom of the ocean. Concrete shoes are a lot less expensive than a rocket. Probably more environmentally friendly, too.

If you want to prove a point: Trebuchet them into active volcanoes. It uses no propellant, very little effort, and gets the point across.

If you want to be efficient: Grind them up and use their corpse-meal as compost. Spread them in a field, grow hemp and/or soybeans.

I get that it's very difficult to send something directly into the Sun. Couldn't you just put them into a highly eccentric and unstable orbit that would crash into the sun after several passes?

What about launching them into Venus? It’s smaller, and closer. Would that save on gas?

I think I got three-fitty in my center console.

frankly, yeeting them 50m into the air is enough to give them a bad day.

I'm assume the reason why is because, in order to go into the sun, 100% of Earth's rotational velocity has to be counteracted, and it doesn't for the opposite direction?

But I want to picture them burning not freezing or running out of oxygen.

Yeah I’m not risking them coming back later with an alien army

So we can't just do the same thing that we do to get something out of the solar system, but "in reverse"? Like a reverse/inverted slingshot? Use the inner planets to brake?

Or how about this, do a slingshot maneuver, but only a single one, that launches it softly straight outwards from one of the planets, in line with the sun. Then just wait until it loses momentum and starts falling straight into the sun. Would that take too long, maybe?

Like if we just dropped something into existence at 1 AU from the sun without any orbital momentum, how long would that object take to fall into the sun?

I prefer the idea of firing them off a cliff with a trebuchet instead. Same end result, far less expensive, and they're aware the entire time they're plummeting to their doom. Plus trebuchets are inherently funny.

It's surprisingly difficult to launch anything out of the solar system due to orbits and the Oort Cloud. Not saying the sun is easy, but in my opinion, it's definitely more realistic.

^ This guy efficients.

Source for the claim?

Y tho? isn't escape velocity from earth the same no matter where your final destination? I don't care if they get there fast or slow as long as hey get there. I don't know enough math to get why it isn't just a matter of timing and angles.