(1) We can launch a rocket that has a payload that hits the sun: it's just costly to do because the rocket starts out orbiting the sun, so we would have to expend delta-v to neutralize the tangential component of the initial velocity.
(2) If you are in a space ship heading towards the sun, it is easy to hit the sun as long as you can steer, and even if you can't steer, if you are heading squarely at it and no planet gets near you to change your velocity, you will hit it.
Literally, until just now (checking your comment history to see if possibly we had interacted elsewhere that I had forgotten), I hadn't seen or read any of your posts outside of this thread.
Not sure how you got from me responding to two of your posts in this thread that I was "targeting" you for something in some other thread.
"You are missing the point" counts as a swipe in the sense that the HN guidelines are using the term. Please edit them out in the future. They just add acid to the threads, and you don't need them.
Looking over account histories is standard moderation; of course we do that.
It's a fairly benign sentence selected as the worst thing in my post history due to a witch hunt because I posted a completely unbiased summary of events that was interpreted as right-leaning.
(1) We can launch a rocket that has a payload that hits the sun: it's just costly to do because the rocket starts out orbiting the sun, so we would have to expend delta-v to neutralize the tangential component of the initial velocity.
(2) If you are in a space ship heading towards the sun, it is easy to hit the sun as long as you can steer, and even if you can't steer, if you are heading squarely at it and no planet gets near you to change your velocity, you will hit it.