On: Solar Orbiter passes historically close to sun on ...

[jancsika]

> While it would be fun to punt a billion dollar spacecraft into the sun just to see the weird spikes on the telemetry data, you can't actually get any realtime data from the probe during close solar approach.

Such a glaring blind spot could potentially hinder law enforcement to the point that visibility into future investigations goes completely dark.

What would it take to blow up the sun?

[stavros → jancsika]

Nothing, it's already blowing up.

[pmontra → jancsika]

Add some H, burn it all, burn all the He, repeat for heavier elements up to Fe then boom.

[badrabbit → jancsika]

A large bomb.