# Ration answers to this proposition...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 1, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ration-answers-to-this-proposition/620572 "2012-05-01T22:30:44Z")\
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> [@Rational answers to this proposition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rational-answers-to-this-proposition/620574/1):
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> What is your opinion on this.
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> What if every human being who committed an inhuman act, and given second chances failed to be taken, was put into a rocket and shot into the sun?

It’s very, very difficult to send a rocket into the sun.

That’s counter-intuitive, I know. One would think the gravity of the sun would draw it right in.

But most objects shot towards the sun just end up in orbit around the sun. To actually have the rocket’s payload truly “shot into the sun” takes far, far more fuel than just orbiting the sun does.

So that makes your proposition more difficult.

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