Humor North Korea Lands First Ever Man On The Sun, Confirms Central News Agency

[SiberianTiger]

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/20...-man-on-the-sun-confirms-central-news-agency/

 

[Athena]

Did they bring any sunscreen with them?

 

[Urwumpe]

Sounds plausible. They did land at night.

 

[SolarLiner]

Sounds plausible. They did land at night.

You stole my joke. :lol:

Seriously, 18 hour two-way mission from Earth to Sun ... I know it is a joke but still ... learn your orbital machanics :rofl:

 

[MattBaker]

And they took advantage of the season since it's currently winter!
NASA and Arianespace are incapable of following this geniuses and will lose all their market share by 2020.

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Seriously, 18 hour two-way mission from Earth to Sun ... I know it is a joke but still ... learn your orbital machanics :rofl:

You underestimate their power, uh, delta-v.

 

[Xyon]

:lol: haha! Given NK's internal attitude you could almost believe it as a piece of dogma...

 

[n122vu]

Seriously, 18 hour two-way mission from Earth to Sun ... I know it is a joke but still ... learn your orbital machanics :rofl:

Consider this [humor/satire]:

It takes light from the Sun roughly 8 minutes to reach the Earth at ~300km/s.

18 hours round trip for the Hero of North Korea = roughly 9 hours each way.

Take away 1 hour for exploration/sample gathering and one hour for Sun/Earth transfer burn, that leaves you with 16 hours round trip. 8 hours each way.

8 minutes for light vs. 8 hours for the chariot carrying the Pride of North Korea.

1 minute = 1/60 hrs, meaning you only need to go 1/60th the speed of light to achieve this time.

300km/s / 60 = 5000km/s. <-Much less than orbital velocity and many times less than escape velocity for Earth. Totally doable.

Congrats to the geniuses in the North Korean space program who figured all this out!!!
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[jedidia]

5000km/s. <-Much less than orbital velocity and many times less than escape velocity for Earth. Totally doable.

Ummm... is the error by two orders of magnitude part of the satire? :shifty:

 

[Topper]

I heard that to land on the Sun is more realistic than reach the Earth core.
But there are movies (The Core) were humans "dive" to the Erath core, but there is no movie were humans lands on the Sun... Maybe it's good idea for a Holliwood movie! :thumbup:

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I heard that to land on the Sun is more realistic than reach the Earth core.
But there are movies (The Core) were humans "dive" to the Erath core, but there is no movie were humans lands on the Sun... Maybe it's good idea for a Holliwood movie! :thumbup:

https://xkcd.com/673/

:lol:

 

[Ghostrider]

there is no movie were humans lands on the Sun...

In both "Sunshine" and "Solar Crisis" they kinda plunge into it.

 

[Artlav]

Didn't they land in Futurama?

 

[Sky Captain]

Going to Earth core is easy - you just have to build your ship from neutronium and then let gravity drive it.

 

[n122vu]

Ummm... is the error by two orders of magnitude part of the satire? :shifty:

No, actually, that was the "I haven't had enough coffee to be thinking about orbital mechanics" part of the satire

 

[RisingFury]

I heard that to land on the Sun is more realistic than reach the Earth core.
But there are movies (The Core) were humans "dive" to the Erath core, but there is no movie were humans lands on the Sun... Maybe it's good idea for a Holliwood movie! :thumbup:

Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)

 

[Andy44]

Getting to the sun is easy via Jupiter slingshot. Easier than getting to the Earth's core, certainly; we have the hardware to do a "sun shot" right now.

Actually landing on the sun, however...

 

[N_Molson]

A movie about landing on the surface of the Sun would be mostly... white. :hmm:

 

[MattBaker]

A movie about landing on the surface of the Sun would be mostly... white. :hmm:

Uhm, didn't the footage of Chernobyl/Pripyat evacuation have black spots, "lightnings" etc in it due to radiation? To be honest I don't know how film photo-/cinematography works.

At least I think we can agree that films or digital storage media would have to be really shielded or resistant from radiation.