We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/were-about-to-fly-a-spacecraft-into-the-sun-for-the-first-time/

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21 Comments

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Finally, we're sending somebody to save those brave helium miners.

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100680

Just gonna leave this here 😉

adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Into the Sun's atmosphere, not into the Sun.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

We'll see what happens I guess.

EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

;_;7

a_toasters_oven@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

That's cute af, how have I never seen that before

Gloria@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Please let Elon Musk be on board. Please!

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No need to waste a good scientific mission.

We can deal with him (and other oligarchs and their collaborators) on earth.

SARGE@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

The rich will happily eat each other. Musk has made it abundantly clear that they are trying to make one person have all the wealth

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Elon has too much mass, couldn't do it on NASA's budget.

donuts@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Think they will find Icarus 1 on the way there?

shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I can hear that distress beacon.

emuspawn@orbiting.observer · 4 pts · 1y

Hey, my name is on that probe! Good luck with the solar plunge little dude!

vane@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Even Sun can't have some privacy nowadays.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Right up in there, no lube, nuthin

Lawyerator@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Oh no! What if it pops!?

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Don't be silly, it'll gently inflate and then float away carried by the heat waves.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

galactic fart noise

Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

The sun was flat and we didn't expect it!

\s

kokesh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

"into the sun"

Zier@fedia.io · -1 pts · 1y

Is xelon going to be on it??? please please please please please