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Originally Posted by AllAboutCams
Why not fire the stuff in to the sun?
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That's basically impossible with our technology, the cost would be absurd.
"The speed a rocket needs to attain to reach the Sun: about 30 km/s, because it needs to cancel out Earth's orbital speed - so it is about twice as hard, in terms of speed needed, to reach the Sun as it is to reach the outer planets (about 4 times as hard in energy terms, because energy is proportional to speed squared)"