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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Fun fact: The sun is the hardest place to get to in the solar system. It’s less dV to leave entirely than to get to Mercury

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (15 children)

can you explain why? cuz that doesnt make sense to me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

https://xkcd.com/681_large/

The sun creates a big gravity well. The earth happens to be quite close to the top of this well (because of the inverse square low). It takes about the same energy to go down and up the gravitational well.

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