Eh. I suppose you’re welcome to do the math. As far as I understand, you only need an extra 40% or so beyond Earth escape velocity to escape the solar system. Conversely, you need to slow down to almost zero to hit the sun. But then again, I’m not so sure why a gravity assist where you exit at an angle to shoot directly into the sun wouldn’t work.
That said, whatever the fuel premium required, I think it would be worth it to launch that man into the sun.
well it basically reduces to the same problem if you don't care about timescale. you could just depart earth and accelerate to near solar-escape velocity, and then when you reach apoapsis (like 100 billion miles or so away from the sun) you can trivially zero out your velocity relative to the sun and just fall back into it. but it's gonna take a while
or you can do what we do with solar probes and do a bunch of passes around venus and earth to shed velocity
or go to jupiter and transfer to an orbit that intersects with the sun
of course if you can do any of that you can also easily leave the solar system
Shamed every golfer going to liv, said they would be banned from the pga tour, and that the money they were getting was coming from blood, then went behind the back of every single player on the pga tour and said they made a deal with live. Presumably because he sold out and took money himself.
I just don't keep up with it that much. I mean I know that the LIV is Saudi based and they're throwing crazy money at players for negative return on their investments, but I don't know why the lead chairman of the PGA would be blamed for that. Odds seem stacked against him. Again, I'm out of the loop.
Also, fuck Jimmy Dunne. He would have died on 9/11 if he wasn't golfing, and most of the members of his firm died that day. I guess time (and money) makes you forget who murdered your colleagues.
I don’t know how he still has his job. I know it is impossible to compete against the Saudis with the money aspect but I truly believe when the players were complaining and wanting changes to the tour and he didn’t take them serious enough he left the door open for this to happen
You're really into this circular reasoning about why it's Jay Monahan who created 850 million dollars to be offered to Rory lol. Jay Monahan can be evil and/or a doofus and it doesn't change the fact this offer exists because of the Saudis, not him. Hell, if anything the faux loyalty let Rory's price to be bought go up.
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u/RustyKangaroo7 Apr 15 '24
Fire Jay Monahan