The increasing upwelling of fascist momentum has led to an influx of calls to launch such people into the sun. This is a particularly difficult and energy-intensive task not yet achieved by man, beast, nor machine, and in order to do so the new proletarian state will have to be quite clever.
The closest man has come to dropping something into the sun is the Parker Solar Probe which has passed as low as 9.86 solar radii (geostationary satellites orbit at roughly 5 terran radii). In order to achieve this, the mission required numerous gravity assists, launched on the most powerful rocket at the time, the Delta IV heavy*, and could only deliver around 50 kg (110 lbs) of payload, a weight of only the most scrawny fascists.
- Falcon Heavy did launch earlier that year but was not yet commercially available and has lower payload capacity to high C3 targets
It is likely that if you have commented “throw [someone] into the sun” before, people have quipped that it would be more efficient to cast them from the solar system entirely. Strictly speaking this is true, at least on standard orbits. Using the Vis-Viva equation with Terra at roughly 150 gigameters from Sol, the orbital velocity is roughly 29.7 km/s. Using a standard Hohmann Transfer with Terra at Aposol and Sol’s surface as Perisol in order to achieve contact requires a velocity at infinity relative to the Terran gravity well of roughly 25.5 km/s or a characteristic energy of 650 km²/s². For perspective, Mars transfers generally require 16 km²/s².
