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    11 days ago

    Interesting question.

    You’d have to cancel out the sideway movement of the earth, and it’s going roughly 85000km an hour.

    Once you cancel that out, you’ll simply fall down to the sun. But you’d need a very powerful rocket. It’s way easier to get to mars, as comparison.

    It’s more realistic to do gravity assists from venus and other bodies, and in that case it’d take years. Just a rough guesstimate would be 10 years I guess? But maybe you’d have to even sling past jupiter or something to really slow down, so then it might be decades.







  • Hmm, considering your religious upbringing you might want to try some absurdist literature to break the mold.

    • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    • The Cyberiad
    • Discworld
    • The Little Prince

    These are accessible too, as you’re not used to reading yet.

    I can also recommend subscribing to a monthly magazine and making a point to read it from cover to cover. That way your skills will improve. You can also buy a whole stack of old national geographics cheaply. This will expand your horizons.