Crowd funding SpaceX mission into the Sun

Beyond the boundaries of established science an avalanche of exotic ideas compete for our attention. Experts tell us that these ideas should not be permitted to take up the time of working scientists, and for the most part they are surely correct. But what about the gems in the rubble pile? By what ground-rules might we bring extraordinary new possibilities to light?

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trevbus
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Crowd funding SpaceX mission into the Sun

Unread post by trevbus » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:56 pm

Hi all,

Wouldn't it be great to find out what it is really like inside the Sun?

Comet Lovejoy passed through the Sun...

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sune ... vejoy.html

We could crowd fund "Lovejoy 2", a space probe to go through the photosphere.

Not sure if it would take a Falcon Heavy or a Falcon 9. For a Falcon 9 it would be US$60 million plus the cost of building and testing the probe, so about 100,000 donors at $600 each.

The mission wouldn't be simple, eg if it had solar panels they'd need to be stowed or discarded...

Anyhow, the era of government-dominated interplanetary science is nearly over!

Cargo
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Re: Crowd funding SpaceX mission into the Sun

Unread post by Cargo » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:06 pm

I LIKE IT!
interstellar filaments conducted electricity having currents as high as 10 thousand billion amperes

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