Occasionally I remember that it's more than twice as difficult to get to the sun as it is to get to literally any other star in the galaxy and I have to stop and think about things for a bit
@emanate Yes but if you wanted to fly into a star, the sun is the most difficult one.
@VoxSomniator Earth's orbital speed is about 30 km/s. To fall into the sun, you need to cancel that out by having a rocket with 30 km/s of Δv. On the other hand, escape velocity from the solar system, which is what you need to exit the solar system on an essentially arbitrary path, arbitrary enough to get to anything within the plane of the galaxy pretty easily, is only about 40 km/s, so you can take that 30 km/s you already have and you only need 10 km/s more.
@VoxSomniator These numbers are rounded, they actually come out to be closer to a 2:1 ratio which is why I said "more than twice" and not "almost thrice".
@Felthry oh my god, that's so weird
I guess that'd be the really slow way of getting to any star in the galaxy, huh
@VoxSomniator well there really isn't a fast way.
@Felthry not *yet* there isn't https://awoo.space/media/Ya6iJGrR6Xm-WXGn15E
@Felthry Well, going "to another star" usually just means going to its system, not flying straight towards the star itself.
So on a grander scale, we're already /at/ the Sun. :-P