Jameson Lopp on Nostr: TIL it takes more energy to fire a rocket into the sun than it does to escape the ...
TIL it takes more energy to fire a rocket into the sun than it does to escape the solar system.
This is because it's the difference between having to cancel out Earth's 30 km/s orbital velocity vs only adding 12 km/s to it.
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2026-03-13 11:39:55 UTCEvent JSON
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