It’s a thought that may have crossed your mind at some point: what would be the practicalities of firing your enemies into the Sun?..

  • mr_account@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Idk why it’s such a big deal for people to hit the sun in these hypothetical situations. Pretty sure the light radiating from the sun drops off exponentially as a function of distance, so anything getting even remotely “close” (i.e. thousands of kilometers) will still burn to a crisp

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      3 days ago

      Correct. But even here at our orbit, the sun is still hot, damn hot. The sunny side of the moon peaks at 250F since there’s no atmosphere to dampen the effect. Medium earth orbit is probably enough to get them roasted