• BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    I asked the Guh-Puh-Tuh monster to break it down like Randall Munroe and the results were surprisingly amusing.

    The short version is that the catapult needs to be many, many kilometers long, the human will be liquefied almost immediately, and there are much better ways to get to the Sun—namely, rockets.

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      24 days ago

      Well I’m not seeing any obvious downsides and it is at least reusable, which would likely come in very handy over the next few years.