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AllGodsRTricksters t1_j209ezk wrote

Reply to comment by Kryosite in Is mining in space socially acceptable? by Gari_305

The sun is the best trash disposal in the system, just have to nudge things in it's direction

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Kryosite t1_j20htl2 wrote

Yeah, but you need to make everyone nudge it, or we're in for a bad time

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grundar t1_j22p3cc wrote

> The sun is the best trash disposal in the system, just have to nudge things in it's direction

No, interestingly.

Anything that hasn't fallen into the sun yet is in a relatively stable orbit around it, meaning pushing it into the sun would require cancelling out most of that orbital velocity, or about 20-30km/s of delta-v.

Getting anything to fall into the sun is actually really hard.

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